Telecommunications
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 66 188
Rank change year-on-year -69 +122 -60
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 2,126 4,754 3,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.15% 4.69% 2.19%
As % of the General category 3.59% 6.88% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,459 1,196 2,077
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,251 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.52% -8.95% -

All General Skills
UK

Telecoms is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,215 69,122 100,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.75% 68.21% 64.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 37,296 50,752
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the UK

Telecoms
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Telecoms.

Salary trend for Telecoms in the UK

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the UK

Telecoms
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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
England -68 1,894 £45,000 -18.18% 683
UK excluding London -74 1,707 £40,000 -7.52% 506
South East -36 605 £37,500 -11.76% 139
Work from Home -21 551 £50,000 -11.11% 253
London -39 311 £65,000 -7.14% 197
Midlands -51 280 £40,000 -11.11% 91
South West -64 263 £40,000 -15.79% 66
North of England -112 260 £45,000 +4.65% 113
North West -81 173 £42,000 -20.00% 73
West Midlands -51 162 £42,500 -10.53% 58
East of England -62 145 £50,000 -16.67% 63
East Midlands -53 118 £39,000 -3.70% 33
Scotland -136 76 £42,500 - 29
Yorkshire -98 69 £47,500 +11.76% 25
Northern Ireland +14 39 £35,000 +27.27% 7
Wales -61 30 £32,500 -22.62% 18
North East -78 18 £27,500 -24.66% 17
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 67 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.18%) Skype for Business
4 11 (0.52%) Apache
5 7 (0.33%) Confluence
5 7 (0.33%) nginx
6 6 (0.28%) CMS
7 5 (0.24%) IIS
7 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.19%) Moodle
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.14%) WordPress
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.047%) WebSphere
Applications
1 155 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 140 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.28%) OrCAD
8 5 (0.24%) InfoPath
9 4 (0.19%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.19%) Simulink
10 2 (0.094%) Fusion 360
11 1 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.047%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.19%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.047%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.047%) Primavera
4 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.047%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.047%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 237 (11.15%) Azure
2 213 (10.02%) Microsoft 365
3 109 (5.13%) AWS
4 69 (3.25%) SaaS
5 55 (2.59%) Entra ID
6 48 (2.26%) Power Platform
7 32 (1.51%) GCP
8 29 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
9 23 (1.08%) GitHub
10 21 (0.99%) OneDrive
11 19 (0.89%) IaaS
12 18 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (0.75%) PaaS
14 15 (0.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 14 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (0.66%) Mimecast
16 13 (0.61%) Amazon S3
17 11 (0.52%) Serverless
18 8 (0.38%) Power Automate
19 7 (0.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 208 (9.78%) Firewall
2 121 (5.69%) WAN
3 117 (5.50%) Wireless
4 116 (5.46%) Broadband
5 111 (5.22%) LAN
6 108 (5.08%) TCP/IP
7 107 (5.03%) VoIP
8 106 (4.99%) Internet
8 106 (4.99%) VPN
9 105 (4.94%) 5G
10 98 (4.61%) Wi-Fi
11 85 (4.00%) DNS
12 60 (2.82%) MPLS
13 58 (2.73%) Network Security
14 56 (2.63%) 4G
15 48 (2.26%) Unified Communications
16 44 (2.07%) PBX
17 42 (1.98%) LTE
18 40 (1.88%) DHCP
18 40 (1.88%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (2.21%) MySQL
2 46 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 45 (2.12%) Power BI
4 33 (1.55%) MongoDB
5 30 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (1.03%) NoSQL
7 15 (0.71%) Redis
8 13 (0.61%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (0.52%) SQLite
10 9 (0.42%) DynamoDB
10 9 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
11 8 (0.38%) GIS
12 7 (0.33%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.33%) Tableau
13 6 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.24%) Power Query
15 4 (0.19%) Big Data
16 3 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 70 (3.29%) Git
2 49 (2.30%) JIRA
3 30 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.13%) LabVIEW
5 18 (0.85%) Visual Studio
6 17 (0.80%) Eclipse
7 15 (0.71%) GitLab
7 15 (0.71%) Subversion
8 10 (0.47%) Trac
9 8 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
9 8 (0.38%) Vagrant
10 7 (0.33%) GCC
11 6 (0.28%) Maven
11 6 (0.28%) Selenium
12 5 (0.24%) Hudson
13 4 (0.19%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.14%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
14 3 (0.14%) WebDriver
15 2 (0.094%) Apache Continuum
General
1 636 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 470 (22.11%) Finance
3 243 (11.43%) Electronics
4 237 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
5 231 (10.87%) Marketing
6 225 (10.58%) Manufacturing
7 217 (10.21%) Public Sector
8 127 (5.97%) Retail
9 90 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
10 75 (3.53%) Legal
11 71 (3.34%) Law
12 70 (3.29%) Automotive
13 67 (3.15%) Billing
13 67 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 50 (2.35%) Local Government
15 49 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
16 45 (2.12%) Military
17 41 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (1.55%) Aerospace
19 19 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (9.92%) Senior
2 173 (8.14%) Support Engineer
3 154 (7.24%) Developer
4 136 (6.40%) Lead
5 112 (5.27%) Project Manager
6 99 (4.66%) Analyst
7 93 (4.37%) Network Engineer
8 86 (4.05%) Telecoms Manager
9 83 (3.90%) Development Manager
9 83 (3.90%) IT Engineer
10 79 (3.72%) Business Manager
10 79 (3.72%) IT Support
11 75 (3.53%) IT Manager
12 74 (3.48%) Consultant
13 70 (3.29%) Business Development Manager
14 68 (3.20%) Team Leader
15 63 (2.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 61 (2.87%) Technical Support
17 56 (2.63%) Systems Engineer
18 54 (2.54%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (2.82%) HTML
2 47 (2.21%) .NET
3 45 (2.12%) CSS
4 43 (2.02%) React
5 28 (1.32%) REST
6 25 (1.18%) Laravel
6 25 (1.18%) YAML
7 24 (1.13%) AngularJS
8 21 (0.99%) Flask
8 21 (0.99%) XML
9 20 (0.94%) LDAP
10 19 (0.89%) SOAP
11 18 (0.85%) Node.js
12 17 (0.80%) .NET Framework
12 17 (0.80%) JSON
12 17 (0.80%) WPF
13 16 (0.75%) NETCONF
14 14 (0.66%) 802.1X
14 14 (0.66%) Svelte
14 14 (0.66%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 134 (6.30%) Driving Licence
2 120 (5.64%) Self-Motivation
3 112 (5.27%) Management Information System
4 68 (3.20%) Data Centre
5 54 (2.54%) IoT
6 48 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
7 45 (2.12%) CCTV
8 35 (1.65%) Fibre Optics
9 33 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
9 33 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 30 (1.41%) Product Ownership
11 23 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.03%) Acoustics
12 22 (1.03%) Satnav
13 20 (0.94%) Robotics
14 17 (0.80%) Operational Technology
14 17 (0.80%) Replication
14 17 (0.80%) Smartphone
15 16 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 292 (13.73%) Windows
2 198 (9.31%) Linux
3 130 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 75 (3.53%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.36%) Windows 7
6 27 (1.27%) CentOS
7 25 (1.18%) Ubuntu
8 24 (1.13%) Unix
9 22 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (0.47%) Android
14 9 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
15 7 (0.33%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.33%) VMS
15 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
16 6 (0.28%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
2 296 (13.92%) Customer Service
3 236 (11.10%) Project Management
4 224 (10.54%) Agile
5 214 (10.07%) Business Intelligence
6 195 (9.17%) Programme Management
7 193 (9.08%) Digital Marketing
8 178 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
9 146 (6.87%) Project Delivery
10 140 (6.59%) ITIL
11 135 (6.35%) Mentoring
12 134 (6.30%) Customer Experience
13 123 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 121 (5.69%) Computer Science
15 119 (5.60%) Business Development
16 107 (5.03%) Software Engineering
16 107 (5.03%) Stakeholder Management
17 104 (4.89%) B2B
18 96 (4.52%) Data Management
19 95 (4.47%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 179 (8.42%) Python
2 125 (5.88%) SQL
3 105 (4.94%) C
4 95 (4.47%) JavaScript
5 90 (4.23%) C#
6 65 (3.06%) Java
7 63 (2.96%) C++
8 44 (2.07%) PowerShell
9 41 (1.93%) PHP
10 31 (1.46%) TypeScript
11 24 (1.13%) Bash
12 23 (1.08%) Perl
13 22 (1.03%) Go
14 20 (0.94%) Embedded C
15 16 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 16 (0.75%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.52%) MATLAB
17 11 (0.52%) R
18 10 (0.47%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 468 (22.01%) Degree
2 176 (8.28%) Security Cleared
3 107 (5.03%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.01%) Master's Degree
5 57 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
6 52 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (1.98%) CCNA
7 42 (1.98%) HNC
8 38 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (1.65%) CISSP
9 35 (1.65%) DV Cleared
10 34 (1.60%) DBS Check
10 34 (1.60%) MBA
11 33 (1.55%) HND
12 29 (1.36%) CISM
13 26 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 25 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 24 (1.13%) A+ Certification
16 20 (0.94%) CCNP
17 19 (0.89%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (4.14%) SLA
2 81 (3.81%) QA
3 47 (2.21%) GDPR
4 29 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 28 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.08%) NCSC
6 23 (1.08%) NIST
7 22 (1.03%) ISO 9001
8 20 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 18 (0.85%) PMO
10 17 (0.80%) Data Quality
11 16 (0.75%) GRC
12 11 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 10 (0.47%) COSHH
14 9 (0.42%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.38%) ITGC
15 8 (0.38%) NEBOSH
16 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.19%) JTAG
System Software
1 136 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 85 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 67 (3.15%) Docker
4 56 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (1.83%) Firmware
6 28 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
7 22 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.75%) pfSense
9 13 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
9 13 (0.61%) NFS
10 8 (0.38%) vSphere
11 6 (0.28%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.19%) KVM
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) Gluster
13 3 (0.14%) oVirt
14 2 (0.094%) HDFS
14 2 (0.094%) Kamailio
15 1 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
15 1 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (1.79%) Ansible
2 37 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (1.27%) Grafana
3 27 (1.27%) Kubernetes
4 22 (1.03%) Terraform
5 20 (0.94%) ZABBIX
6 18 (0.85%) SCCM
7 14 (0.66%) FortiGate
8 13 (0.61%) HAProxy
8 13 (0.61%) Puppet
9 12 (0.56%) Nagios
10 11 (0.52%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.47%) Graphite
11 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.47%) Nessus
11 10 (0.47%) SCDPM
12 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 4 (0.19%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.19%) Autotask
Vendors
1 454 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 184 (8.65%) SAP
3 156 (7.34%) Cisco
4 87 (4.09%) VMware
5 74 (3.48%) Juniper
6 65 (3.06%) Openreach
7 59 (2.78%) Virgin Media
8 58 (2.73%) Fortinet
9 43 (2.02%) Veeam
10 42 (1.98%) BT
11 40 (1.88%) HP
12 39 (1.83%) NEC
13 36 (1.69%) Oracle
14 32 (1.51%) Aruba
15 30 (1.41%) Apple
15 30 (1.41%) Ericsson
16 29 (1.36%) Salesforce
17 25 (1.18%) Polycom
18 21 (0.99%) McAfee
18 21 (0.99%) Sandvine