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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 67 182
Rank change year-on-year -67 +115 -53
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 2,142 4,811 3,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.17% 4.64% 2.21%
As % of the General category 3.63% 6.79% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 1,231 2,112
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £40,938
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 59,028 70,875 99,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.86% 68.29% 63.83%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 38,205 51,280
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,269 £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 £101,250 £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 3 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 3 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 -62 1,908 £45,000 -18.18% 698
UK excluding London -73 1,708 £40,000 -7.52% 510
South East -25 611 £37,500 -11.76% 140
Work from Home -11 568 £50,000 -9.09% 283
London -26 324 £65,000 -7.14% 205
Midlands -46 278 £40,000 -11.11% 100
North of England -120 260 £45,000 +5.26% 111
South West -64 259 £40,000 -7.52% 66
North West -79 176 £42,500 -19.05% 74
West Midlands -49 164 £45,000 -10.00% 68
East of England -67 145 £50,000 -16.67% 65
East Midlands -48 114 £39,000 -2.50% 32
Scotland -135 77 £42,500 - 29
Yorkshire -110 68 £47,500 +11.76% 24
Northern Ireland +16 39 £35,000 +27.27% 5
Wales -56 31 £32,500 -22.62% 16
North East -84 16 £27,500 -24.66% 14
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
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 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (1.21%) Skype for Business
4 12 (0.56%) Apache
5 8 (0.37%) nginx
6 7 (0.33%) Confluence
6 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.23%) CMS
7 5 (0.23%) IIS
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%) Gunicorn
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.047%) SAS
10 1 (0.047%) uWSGI
10 1 (0.047%) WebSphere
Applications
1 156 (7.28%) Microsoft Office
2 139 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.28%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.19%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.19%) InfoPath
8 4 (0.19%) Simulink
9 2 (0.093%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
10 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 (11.06%) Azure
2 221 (10.32%) Microsoft 365
3 110 (5.14%) AWS
4 70 (3.27%) SaaS
5 54 (2.52%) Entra ID
6 49 (2.29%) Power Platform
7 31 (1.45%) GCP
8 30 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
9 23 (1.07%) GitHub
10 20 (0.93%) OneDrive
11 19 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (0.89%) IaaS
12 16 (0.75%) PaaS
13 15 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 14 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (0.65%) Mimecast
15 13 (0.61%) Amazon S3
16 11 (0.51%) Serverless
17 8 (0.37%) Power Automate
18 7 (0.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 209 (9.76%) Firewall
2 131 (6.12%) WAN
3 125 (5.84%) Wireless
4 122 (5.70%) Broadband
5 121 (5.65%) LAN
6 111 (5.18%) Internet
7 108 (5.04%) TCP/IP
7 108 (5.04%) VoIP
8 106 (4.95%) 5G
8 106 (4.95%) VPN
9 99 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
10 87 (4.06%) DNS
11 64 (2.99%) MPLS
12 58 (2.71%) Network Security
13 55 (2.57%) 4G
14 50 (2.33%) Unified Communications
15 45 (2.10%) PBX
16 44 (2.05%) DHCP
16 44 (2.05%) VLAN
17 42 (1.96%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (2.19%) MySQL
1 47 (2.19%) SQL Server
2 46 (2.15%) Power BI
3 33 (1.54%) MongoDB
4 30 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 15 (0.70%) Redis
7 13 (0.61%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.51%) SQLite
9 9 (0.42%) DynamoDB
9 9 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
10 8 (0.37%) Tableau
11 7 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.33%) GIS
11 7 (0.33%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.23%) Power Query
14 4 (0.19%) Big Data
15 3 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 70 (3.27%) Git
2 49 (2.29%) JIRA
3 30 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.12%) LabVIEW
5 18 (0.84%) Visual Studio
6 17 (0.79%) Eclipse
7 15 (0.70%) GitLab
7 15 (0.70%) Subversion
8 10 (0.47%) Trac
9 8 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
9 8 (0.37%) Vagrant
10 7 (0.33%) GCC
10 7 (0.33%) Selenium
11 6 (0.28%) Maven
12 5 (0.23%) 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 (0.093%) Apache Continuum
General
1 642 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 480 (22.41%) Finance
3 245 (11.44%) Electronics
4 242 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
5 240 (11.20%) Marketing
6 227 (10.60%) Manufacturing
7 218 (10.18%) Public Sector
8 127 (5.93%) Retail
9 90 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
10 80 (3.73%) Legal
11 76 (3.55%) Law
12 71 (3.31%) Automotive
13 66 (3.08%) Billing
13 66 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 51 (2.38%) Local Government
15 50 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
16 43 (2.01%) Military
17 40 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (1.54%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 218 (10.18%) Senior
2 175 (8.17%) Support Engineer
3 153 (7.14%) Developer
4 136 (6.35%) Lead
5 111 (5.18%) Project Manager
6 103 (4.81%) Analyst
7 101 (4.72%) Network Engineer
8 85 (3.97%) Telecoms Manager
9 84 (3.92%) Development Manager
10 80 (3.73%) Business Manager
10 80 (3.73%) IT Engineer
11 79 (3.69%) Consultant
11 79 (3.69%) IT Support
12 76 (3.55%) IT Manager
13 71 (3.31%) Business Development Manager
14 67 (3.13%) Team Leader
15 63 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 61 (2.85%) Technical Support
17 56 (2.61%) Systems Engineer
18 53 (2.47%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (2.80%) HTML
2 46 (2.15%) .NET
2 46 (2.15%) CSS
3 44 (2.05%) React
4 28 (1.31%) REST
5 25 (1.17%) YAML
6 24 (1.12%) AngularJS
6 24 (1.12%) Laravel
7 22 (1.03%) Flask
8 21 (0.98%) XML
9 20 (0.93%) LDAP
10 19 (0.89%) SOAP
11 18 (0.84%) Node.js
12 17 (0.79%) .NET Framework
12 17 (0.79%) JSON
13 16 (0.75%) NETCONF
13 16 (0.75%) WPF
14 14 (0.65%) 802.1X
14 14 (0.65%) Svelte
14 14 (0.65%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.12%) Driving Licence
2 124 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
3 111 (5.18%) Management Information System
4 70 (3.27%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.47%) IoT
6 48 (2.24%) Video Conferencing
7 44 (2.05%) CCTV
8 35 (1.63%) Fibre Optics
8 35 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 32 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
10 30 (1.40%) Product Ownership
11 24 (1.12%) Algorithms
11 24 (1.12%) Robotics
11 24 (1.12%) Smartphone
12 22 (1.03%) Acoustics
12 22 (1.03%) Satnav
13 17 (0.79%) Operational Technology
14 16 (0.75%) FPGA
14 16 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 298 (13.91%) Windows
2 198 (9.24%) Linux
3 131 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 81 (3.78%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.35%) Windows 7
6 26 (1.21%) CentOS
7 25 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 23 (1.07%) Unix
9 21 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.51%) Android
13 9 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
14 7 (0.33%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.33%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.33%) VMS
14 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.28%) Windows 8
16 3 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
2 305 (14.24%) Customer Service
3 235 (10.97%) Project Management
4 227 (10.60%) Agile
5 216 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
6 196 (9.15%) Programme Management
7 195 (9.10%) Digital Marketing
8 176 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
9 149 (6.96%) Project Delivery
10 142 (6.63%) ITIL
11 137 (6.40%) Mentoring
12 136 (6.35%) Customer Experience
13 126 (5.88%) Computer Science
14 124 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 122 (5.70%) Business Development
16 110 (5.14%) Software Engineering
17 109 (5.09%) Stakeholder Management
18 105 (4.90%) B2B
19 99 (4.62%) Data Management
20 97 (4.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 181 (8.45%) Python
2 125 (5.84%) SQL
3 107 (5.00%) C
4 94 (4.39%) JavaScript
5 91 (4.25%) C#
6 67 (3.13%) Java
7 63 (2.94%) C++
8 44 (2.05%) PowerShell
9 40 (1.87%) PHP
10 31 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 24 (1.12%) Bash
12 23 (1.07%) Perl
13 22 (1.03%) Go
14 20 (0.93%) Embedded C
15 16 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 16 (0.75%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.65%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.51%) MATLAB
17 11 (0.51%) R
18 10 (0.47%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 481 (22.46%) Degree
2 173 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 106 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 66 (3.08%) Master's Degree
5 64 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
6 55 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 50 (2.33%) CCNA
8 47 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 42 (1.96%) HNC
10 36 (1.68%) CISSP
11 35 (1.63%) DBS Check
11 35 (1.63%) DV Cleared
11 35 (1.63%) MBA
12 33 (1.54%) HND
13 30 (1.40%) CISM
14 26 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 25 (1.17%) A+ Certification
15 25 (1.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 22 (1.03%) MRICS
17 21 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (4.11%) SLA
2 82 (3.83%) QA
3 46 (2.15%) GDPR
4 28 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.07%) NCSC
6 23 (1.07%) NIST
7 22 (1.03%) ISO 9001
8 20 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 18 (0.84%) PMO
10 17 (0.79%) Data Quality
11 16 (0.75%) GRC
12 11 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 10 (0.47%) COSHH
14 9 (0.42%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.37%) ITGC
15 8 (0.37%) NEBOSH
16 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.19%) JTAG
System Software
1 136 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 85 (3.97%) Hyper-V
3 67 (3.13%) Docker
4 58 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (1.87%) Firmware
6 27 (1.26%) 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 (0.37%) 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 (0.093%) HDFS
14 2 (0.093%) Kamailio
15 1 (0.047%) OpenSIPS
15 1 (0.047%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 37 (1.73%) Ansible
2 36 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (1.26%) Grafana
3 27 (1.26%) Kubernetes
4 21 (0.98%) Terraform
5 20 (0.93%) ZABBIX
6 17 (0.79%) SCCM
7 14 (0.65%) FortiGate
8 13 (0.61%) HAProxy
8 13 (0.61%) Puppet
9 11 (0.51%) Nagios
9 11 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.47%) Graphite
10 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 10 (0.47%) Nessus
10 10 (0.47%) SCDPM
11 6 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 4 (0.19%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.19%) Autotask
Vendors
1 458 (21.38%) Microsoft
2 186 (8.68%) SAP
3 163 (7.61%) Cisco
4 90 (4.20%) VMware
5 74 (3.45%) Juniper
6 64 (2.99%) Openreach
7 59 (2.75%) Virgin Media
8 58 (2.71%) Fortinet
9 43 (2.01%) Veeam
10 42 (1.96%) BT
11 40 (1.87%) HP
12 38 (1.77%) NEC
13 36 (1.68%) Oracle
14 32 (1.49%) Aruba
15 30 (1.40%) Apple
15 30 (1.40%) Ericsson
16 28 (1.31%) Salesforce
17 25 (1.17%) Polycom
18 21 (0.98%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.98%) Sandvine