WLAN Jobs in the West Midlands

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 162 244 275
Rank change year-on-year +82 +31 -52
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 106 8 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.26% 0.14% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.14% 0.74% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 45 4 18
10th Percentile £36,250 £21,675 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £22,688 £30,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £29,250 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year +65.81% -12.69% -3.60%
75th Percentile £50,250 £38,750 £46,563
90th Percentile £60,000 £45,500 £47,500
England median annual salary £49,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +16.47% - +11.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,045 1,084 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.37% 18.74% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 777 510 700
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £56,950 £63,750 £60,156
90th Percentile £68,300 £73,075 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

WLAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing WLAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for WLAN in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WLAN in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for WLAN in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WLAN in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WLAN in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the West Midlands 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
Worcestershire - 29 £48,500 -
Birmingham -7 18 £50,000 +17.65%
Warwickshire +36 15 £45,000 - 1
Staffordshire -26 10 £48,500 +113.19% 1
Shropshire - 7 - -
Coventry - 4 £42,500 -
Walsall - 2 - -
Wednesbury - 1 - -
West Bromwich - 1 - -
Willenhall - 1 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Bilston - 1 - -
Brierley Hill - 1 - -
Dudley - 1 - -
Halesowen - 1 - -
Kingswinford - 1 - -
Rowley Regis - 1 - -
Smethwick - 1 - -
Solihull - 1 - - 1
Stourbridge - 1 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 1 - -
Tipton - 1 - -
WLAN
England

WLAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.32%) Azure
2 6 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (0.94%) AWS
3 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.94%) GCP
3 1 (0.94%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 55 (51.89%) LAN
1 55 (51.89%) Network Security
2 50 (47.17%) Internet
3 45 (42.45%) WAN
4 41 (38.68%) SD-WAN
5 32 (30.19%) MPLS
6 26 (24.53%) BGP
6 26 (24.53%) OSPF
7 13 (12.26%) Firewall
8 10 (9.43%) VoIP
8 10 (9.43%) VPN
9 9 (8.49%) TCP/IP
9 9 (8.49%) Wireless
10 8 (7.55%) VLAN
11 7 (6.60%) EIGRP
11 7 (6.60%) HSRP
11 7 (6.60%) Spanning Tree
11 7 (6.60%) VRRP
11 7 (6.60%) Wireshark
12 5 (4.72%) SAN
General
1 14 (13.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.49%) Retail
3 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.94%) Automotive
4 1 (0.94%) Law
4 1 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (51.89%) Support Engineer
2 51 (48.11%) IT Engineer
3 50 (47.17%) IT Support
3 50 (47.17%) IT Support Engineer
4 36 (33.96%) Analyst
4 36 (33.96%) Network Analyst
5 34 (32.08%) Network Operations Analyst
5 34 (32.08%) Operations Analyst
6 13 (12.26%) Senior
7 10 (9.43%) Network Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Network Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Network Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Operations Analyst
9 5 (4.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 5 (4.72%) Infrastructure Support
9 5 (4.72%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (47.17%) Driving Licence
1 50 (47.17%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.60%) FMCG
3 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.94%) IoT
4 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.94%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 52 (49.06%) Windows
2 51 (48.11%) Linux
3 2 (1.89%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.89%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.89%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (51.89%) Computer Science
2 54 (50.94%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (50.00%) ITIL
4 50 (47.17%) Asset Management
4 50 (47.17%) IT Asset Management
4 50 (47.17%) Mentoring
4 50 (47.17%) Network Management
5 9 (8.49%) Network Architecture
6 8 (7.55%) Change Management
6 8 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (7.55%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (6.60%) Business Analysis
7 7 (6.60%) Demand Management
7 7 (6.60%) High Availability
7 7 (6.60%) Project Delivery
7 7 (6.60%) Release Management
8 6 (5.66%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (5.66%) Systems Engineering
9 5 (4.72%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (3.77%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
1 1 (0.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (83.02%) Cisco Certification
2 85 (80.19%) CCNP
3 76 (71.70%) CCNA
4 55 (51.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (51.89%) Degree
5 51 (48.11%) MCSE
5 51 (48.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 50 (47.17%) LPIC
6 50 (47.17%) MCP
7 27 (25.47%) CCIE
8 25 (23.58%) CCDP
9 7 (6.60%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.77%) JNCIA
11 2 (1.89%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (0.94%) CWNA
12 1 (0.94%) HNC
12 1 (0.94%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.60%) Firmware
2 6 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.83%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 72 (67.92%) Cisco
2 58 (54.72%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.49%) VMware
4 8 (7.55%) Ekahau
4 8 (7.55%) Juniper
5 5 (4.72%) Citrix
5 5 (4.72%) HP
5 5 (4.72%) Sophos
5 5 (4.72%) Veeam
6 4 (3.77%) Meraki
7 3 (2.83%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.89%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.89%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.89%) Google
8 2 (1.89%) Snow
8 2 (1.89%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.94%) Apple
9 1 (0.94%) Aruba
9 1 (0.94%) Dell
9 1 (0.94%) Nokia