WLAN Jobs in the UK excluding London

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for WLAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WLAN over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 578 654
Rank change year-on-year +62 +76 -105
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 279 140 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.78% 1.31% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 166 100 177
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £40,250 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.50% +4.55% +2.67%
75th Percentile £53,000 £49,063 £53,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £65,500
UK median annual salary £49,750 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.06% -10.53% +25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

WLAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,052 10,657 11,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.72% 19.15% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,121 4,564 6,554
10th Percentile £25,759 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,886 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the UK excluding London

WLAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WLAN in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WLAN in the UK excluding London

WLAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WLAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WLAN in the UK excluding London

WLAN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +74 128 £48,500 +34.52% 6
West Midlands +82 106 £48,500 +65.81% 3
North of England +61 71 £47,500 -5.00% 4
Yorkshire +93 39 £37,500 -25.00% 2
North West +18 36 £60,000 +14.29% 2
East of England +8 27 £32,000 -30.81% 3
South West -11 27 £49,750 +11.55% 4
South East -34 26 £50,000 +25.00% 4
East Midlands -23 22 £47,500 +28.00% 3
Wales +12 5 £44,886 -12.62% 1
North East -25 5 £35,000 +6.06%
Scotland -64 4 £57,500 -
Northern Ireland +17 2 - - 1
WLAN
UK

WLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.30%) IIS
3 10 (3.58%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.72%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 86 (30.82%) Azure
2 78 (27.96%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 17 (6.09%) AWS
5 10 (3.58%) GCP
6 8 (2.87%) OpenShift
7 7 (2.51%) SaaS
8 6 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.79%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.43%) Azure Stack
10 4 (1.43%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.43%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.72%) Cloudflare
11 2 (0.72%) IaaS
11 2 (0.72%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.72%) PaaS
11 2 (0.72%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.72%) Serverless
12 1 (0.36%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 201 (72.04%) LAN
2 147 (52.69%) WAN
3 102 (36.56%) Network Security
4 71 (25.45%) Firewall
5 69 (24.73%) Internet
6 67 (24.01%) SD-WAN
7 50 (17.92%) MPLS
8 44 (15.77%) Wireless
9 42 (15.05%) VPN
10 38 (13.62%) OSPF
11 35 (12.54%) BGP
12 32 (11.47%) TCP/IP
13 27 (9.68%) DNS
14 25 (8.96%) VLAN
15 24 (8.60%) DHCP
16 21 (7.53%) SAN
16 21 (7.53%) Wi-Fi
17 16 (5.73%) VoIP
18 11 (3.94%) Software-Defined Networking
19 8 (2.87%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.94%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.87%) MySQL
3 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.36%) JIRA
General
1 48 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 18 (6.45%) Retail
3 13 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (4.66%) Finance
4 7 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.79%) Local Government
6 5 (1.79%) Police
7 4 (1.43%) Agriculture
7 4 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.08%) Automotive
8 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.72%) Legal
9 2 (0.72%) Marketing
10 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 81 (29.03%) IT Engineer
1 81 (29.03%) IT Support
2 79 (28.32%) Support Engineer
3 69 (24.73%) IT Support Engineer
4 68 (24.37%) Analyst
5 48 (17.20%) Operations Analyst
6 46 (16.49%) Network Analyst
7 44 (15.77%) Network Operations Analyst
8 39 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (13.26%) Network Engineer
9 37 (13.26%) Senior
10 18 (6.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 17 (6.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (6.09%) Support Analyst
12 16 (5.73%) IT Analyst
13 15 (5.38%) 2nd Line Support
14 14 (5.02%) 3rd Line Support
14 14 (5.02%) Senior Network Engineer
15 11 (3.94%) IT Support Analyst
16 10 (3.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.43%) Web Services
2 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 70 (25.09%) Driving Licence
2 68 (24.37%) Onboarding
3 26 (9.32%) Data Centre
4 14 (5.02%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.87%) EMC VNX
7 7 (2.51%) FMCG
7 7 (2.51%) PMI
7 7 (2.51%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.15%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.43%) CCTV
11 3 (1.08%) Replication
11 3 (1.08%) Smartphone
12 2 (0.72%) CMDB
12 2 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.72%) PKI
12 2 (0.72%) Robotics
12 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 121 (43.37%) Windows
2 82 (29.39%) Linux
3 34 (12.19%) Windows Server
4 21 (7.53%) Windows 10
5 15 (5.38%) Android
6 14 (5.02%) Apple iOS
7 9 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (2.51%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.43%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.43%) VMS
11 3 (1.08%) CentOS
11 3 (1.08%) Rocky
11 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.72%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (36.20%) ITIL
2 96 (34.41%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (28.67%) Computer Science
4 79 (28.32%) Mentoring
5 75 (26.88%) Network Management
6 68 (24.37%) Asset Management
7 67 (24.01%) IT Asset Management
8 47 (16.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 42 (15.05%) Customer Service
10 29 (10.39%) Service Management
11 23 (8.24%) Presales
12 20 (7.17%) Project Delivery
13 19 (6.81%) Network Architecture
13 19 (6.81%) Service Delivery
14 18 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (6.09%) Cloud Security
15 17 (6.09%) ITSM
16 16 (5.73%) Change Management
16 16 (5.73%) Coaching
16 16 (5.73%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 24 (8.60%) SQL
2 8 (2.87%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.79%) Bash
3 5 (1.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 125 (44.80%) Cisco Certification
2 112 (40.14%) CCNP
3 105 (37.63%) CCNA
4 96 (34.41%) Degree
5 78 (27.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 77 (27.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 73 (26.16%) MCSE
8 71 (25.45%) MCP
9 67 (24.01%) LPIC
10 31 (11.11%) CCIE
11 29 (10.39%) CCDP
12 8 (2.87%) SC Cleared
12 8 (2.87%) Security Cleared
13 7 (2.51%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 7 (2.51%) PMI Certification
14 6 (2.15%) MCSA
15 5 (1.79%) JNCIA
15 5 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (1.43%) Azure Certification
17 2 (0.72%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.81%) SLA
2 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (27.24%) Active Directory
2 58 (20.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (8.60%) Hyper-V
4 17 (6.09%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (5.02%) vSphere
6 8 (2.87%) Docker
7 7 (2.51%) Firmware
8 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.72%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (16.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (7.53%) SCCM
3 13 (4.66%) Nagios
3 13 (4.66%) WSUS
4 10 (3.58%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.87%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (2.87%) Kubernetes
6 7 (2.51%) Ansible
7 6 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (2.15%) SmoothWall
8 5 (1.79%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.79%) OfficeScan
9 2 (0.72%) Puppet
10 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 162 (58.06%) Microsoft
2 132 (47.31%) Cisco
3 81 (29.03%) VMware
4 26 (9.32%) Veeam
5 24 (8.60%) SolarWinds
6 23 (8.24%) Aruba
7 20 (7.17%) Citrix
8 18 (6.45%) Fortinet
8 18 (6.45%) Meraki
8 18 (6.45%) Palo Alto
9 13 (4.66%) Sophos
10 12 (4.30%) Juniper
11 11 (3.94%) HP
12 8 (2.87%) CheckPoint
12 8 (2.87%) Ekahau
12 8 (2.87%) EMC
13 7 (2.51%) Extreme Networks
13 7 (2.51%) Google
14 5 (1.79%) Alcatel-Lucent
14 5 (1.79%) Red Hat