Telecoms Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 63 196
Rank change year-on-year -69 +133 -61
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 2,195 4,578 3,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.09% 4.84% 2.11%
As % of the General category 3.60% 7.14% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,489 1,155 2,049
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,750 £29,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,125 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -

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 61,046 64,137 109,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.17% 67.76% 65.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40,257 35,476 51,779
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,799 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the UK

Telecoms
Top 18 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 1 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
England -62 1,963 £45,000 -19.64% 674
UK excluding London -77 1,776 £40,000 -11.11% 485
South East -36 626 £38,000 -10.59% 144
Work from Home -18 555 £50,000 -9.09% 229
London -39 318 £65,000 -7.14% 191
Midlands -67 293 £42,500 -15.00% 90
North of England -118 274 £42,000 -6.67% 99
South West -61 272 £40,000 -15.79% 67
North West -88 176 £41,000 -31.67% 59
West Midlands -64 163 £40,000 -21.95% 54
East of England -61 156 £45,000 -18.18% 57
East Midlands -46 130 £42,500 +4.94% 36
Scotland -117 80 £42,500 - 23
Yorkshire -108 70 £47,500 +11.76% 21
Northern Ireland +19 38 £35,000 -20.00% 11
Wales -57 29 £27,500 -14.99% 13
North East -73 28 £27,500 -42.31% 20
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -

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 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.14%) Skype for Business
4 11 (0.50%) Apache
5 7 (0.32%) Confluence
5 7 (0.32%) nginx
6 6 (0.27%) CMS
7 4 (0.18%) Moodle
7 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) IIS
8 3 (0.14%) WordPress
9 1 (0.046%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.046%) WebSphere
Applications
1 164 (7.47%) Microsoft Office
2 147 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.50%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.27%) OrCAD
8 5 (0.23%) InfoPath
9 4 (0.18%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.18%) Simulink
10 2 (0.091%) Fusion 360
10 2 (0.091%) Revit
11 1 (0.046%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.046%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.18%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.091%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
4 2 (0.091%) Summit
5 1 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.046%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 237 (10.80%) Azure
2 214 (9.75%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (5.10%) AWS
4 66 (3.01%) SaaS
5 57 (2.60%) Entra ID
6 44 (2.00%) Power Platform
7 36 (1.64%) GCP
8 26 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (1.00%) GitHub
9 22 (1.00%) OneDrive
10 19 (0.87%) IaaS
11 15 (0.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 15 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (0.68%) PaaS
12 14 (0.64%) Mimecast
13 13 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (0.50%) Amazon S3
14 11 (0.50%) Serverless
15 6 (0.27%) Power Automate
15 6 (0.27%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 216 (9.84%) Firewall
2 120 (5.47%) WAN
3 114 (5.19%) VPN
4 112 (5.10%) Broadband
4 112 (5.10%) Wireless
5 111 (5.06%) 5G
6 110 (5.01%) LAN
6 110 (5.01%) VoIP
7 105 (4.78%) Internet
8 102 (4.65%) TCP/IP
8 102 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
9 84 (3.83%) DNS
10 63 (2.87%) MPLS
11 60 (2.73%) Network Security
12 58 (2.64%) 4G
13 49 (2.23%) Unified Communications
14 43 (1.96%) DHCP
14 43 (1.96%) LTE
15 42 (1.91%) PBX
16 41 (1.87%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (1.96%) SQL Server
2 40 (1.82%) MySQL
2 40 (1.82%) Power BI
3 30 (1.37%) MongoDB
3 30 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.00%) NoSQL
5 14 (0.64%) Redis
6 13 (0.59%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.50%) SQLite
8 9 (0.41%) DynamoDB
8 9 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
9 8 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.36%) GIS
9 8 (0.36%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.32%) Tableau
11 6 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.18%) Big Data
12 4 (0.18%) Power Query
13 3 (0.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 69 (3.14%) Git
2 48 (2.19%) JIRA
3 28 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.09%) LabVIEW
5 17 (0.77%) Eclipse
5 17 (0.77%) Visual Studio
6 15 (0.68%) GitLab
7 14 (0.64%) Subversion
8 10 (0.46%) Trac
9 8 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 8 (0.36%) Vagrant
10 7 (0.32%) GCC
10 7 (0.32%) Maven
11 5 (0.23%) Hudson
12 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.18%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
13 3 (0.14%) Selenium
14 2 (0.091%) Apache Continuum
14 2 (0.091%) WebDriver
General
1 628 (28.61%) Social Skills
2 456 (20.77%) Finance
3 231 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (10.30%) Electronics
5 212 (9.66%) Marketing
6 206 (9.38%) Manufacturing
7 200 (9.11%) Public Sector
8 126 (5.74%) Retail
9 90 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
10 77 (3.51%) Legal
11 72 (3.28%) Law
12 66 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 65 (2.96%) Billing
14 64 (2.92%) Automotive
15 50 (2.28%) Local Government
15 50 (2.28%) Military
16 46 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
17 43 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
18 34 (1.55%) Aerospace
19 20 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 201 (9.16%) Senior
2 171 (7.79%) Support Engineer
3 163 (7.43%) Developer
4 136 (6.20%) Lead
5 111 (5.06%) Project Manager
6 103 (4.69%) Analyst
7 99 (4.51%) Network Engineer
8 88 (4.01%) Development Manager
9 87 (3.96%) Telecoms Manager
10 85 (3.87%) IT Engineer
11 84 (3.83%) Business Manager
12 83 (3.78%) IT Support
13 75 (3.42%) Business Development Manager
14 73 (3.33%) Consultant
15 71 (3.23%) IT Manager
16 68 (3.10%) Team Leader
17 67 (3.05%) Systems Engineer
18 65 (2.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 62 (2.82%) Technical Support
20 61 (2.78%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (2.64%) HTML
2 46 (2.10%) .NET
3 44 (2.00%) CSS
4 42 (1.91%) React
5 28 (1.28%) REST
6 25 (1.14%) Laravel
7 23 (1.05%) YAML
8 21 (0.96%) AngularJS
8 21 (0.96%) XML
9 20 (0.91%) Flask
10 19 (0.87%) LDAP
10 19 (0.87%) SOAP
10 19 (0.87%) WPF
11 18 (0.82%) Node.js
12 17 (0.77%) .NET Framework
13 16 (0.73%) JSON
13 16 (0.73%) NETCONF
14 14 (0.64%) 802.1X
14 14 (0.64%) Svelte
15 13 (0.59%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 143 (6.51%) Driving Licence
2 117 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
3 111 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 70 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 57 (2.60%) IoT
6 49 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
7 48 (2.19%) CCTV
8 37 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 36 (1.64%) Fibre Optics
10 33 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
11 29 (1.32%) Product Ownership
12 23 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 22 (1.00%) Acoustics
13 22 (1.00%) Satnav
14 18 (0.82%) Robotics
15 17 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (0.77%) Operational Technology
15 17 (0.77%) Replication
16 16 (0.73%) FPGA
16 16 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 297 (13.53%) Windows
2 200 (9.11%) Linux
3 132 (6.01%) Windows Server
4 74 (3.37%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.37%) Windows 7
6 28 (1.28%) CentOS
7 26 (1.18%) Ubuntu
8 22 (1.00%) Unix
8 22 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 19 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (0.46%) Android
13 9 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
14 8 (0.36%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.36%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.32%) VMS
15 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.27%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
2 295 (13.44%) Customer Service
3 236 (10.75%) Project Management
4 227 (10.34%) Agile
5 199 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
6 181 (8.25%) Programme Management
7 180 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
8 177 (8.06%) Digital Marketing
9 150 (6.83%) Project Delivery
10 139 (6.33%) Mentoring
11 137 (6.24%) ITIL
12 131 (5.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 131 (5.97%) Customer Experience
13 126 (5.74%) Business Development
14 119 (5.42%) Software Engineering
15 111 (5.06%) Computer Science
16 105 (4.78%) B2B
17 103 (4.69%) Data Management
18 102 (4.65%) Stakeholder Management
19 98 (4.46%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 170 (7.74%) Python
2 118 (5.38%) SQL
3 100 (4.56%) C
4 91 (4.15%) JavaScript
5 82 (3.74%) C#
6 63 (2.87%) C++
7 62 (2.82%) Java
8 38 (1.73%) PHP
8 38 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 31 (1.41%) TypeScript
10 22 (1.00%) Bash
10 22 (1.00%) Go
10 22 (1.00%) Perl
11 20 (0.91%) Embedded C
12 16 (0.73%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.73%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.50%) MATLAB
14 11 (0.50%) R
15 10 (0.46%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 459 (20.91%) Degree
2 177 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 104 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 61 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 54 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (1.91%) HNC
8 39 (1.78%) CCNA
9 37 (1.69%) DBS Check
10 36 (1.64%) DV Cleared
11 34 (1.55%) CISSP
12 33 (1.50%) HND
13 32 (1.46%) MBA
13 32 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (1.28%) CISM
15 26 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 25 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 24 (1.09%) A+ Certification
18 22 (1.00%) CCNP
19 19 (0.87%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (4.19%) SLA
2 81 (3.69%) QA
3 47 (2.14%) GDPR
4 33 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 30 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.05%) NIST
7 22 (1.00%) ISO 9001
7 22 (1.00%) NCSC
8 21 (0.96%) Accessibility
9 17 (0.77%) PMO
10 16 (0.73%) GRC
11 15 (0.68%) Data Quality
12 12 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 10 (0.46%) COSHH
14 9 (0.41%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.41%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.36%) NEBOSH
16 6 (0.27%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 5 (0.23%) ITGC
System Software
1 143 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 88 (4.01%) Hyper-V
3 63 (2.87%) Docker
4 55 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 38 (1.73%) Firmware
6 26 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
7 22 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.73%) pfSense
9 12 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.55%) NFS
10 7 (0.32%) vSphere
11 6 (0.27%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.18%) KVM
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) Gluster
13 3 (0.14%) oVirt
14 2 (0.091%) HDFS
14 2 (0.091%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (1.59%) Ansible
3 26 (1.18%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.14%) Grafana
5 20 (0.91%) Terraform
5 20 (0.91%) ZABBIX
6 17 (0.77%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.77%) SCCM
7 11 (0.50%) HAProxy
7 11 (0.50%) Puppet
8 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 10 (0.46%) Nagios
8 10 (0.46%) Nessus
8 10 (0.46%) SCDPM
9 8 (0.36%) Graphite
9 8 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.18%) AirWatch
11 4 (0.18%) Autotask
Vendors
1 465 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 167 (7.61%) SAP
3 163 (7.43%) Cisco
4 86 (3.92%) VMware
5 74 (3.37%) Juniper
6 68 (3.10%) Openreach
7 58 (2.64%) Virgin Media
8 55 (2.51%) Fortinet
9 43 (1.96%) BT
9 43 (1.96%) Veeam
10 42 (1.91%) HP
10 42 (1.91%) NEC
11 38 (1.73%) Oracle
12 31 (1.41%) Aruba
13 29 (1.32%) Ericsson
13 29 (1.32%) Salesforce
14 28 (1.28%) Apple
15 25 (1.14%) Polycom
16 21 (0.96%) McAfee
16 21 (0.96%) Palo Alto