Telecoms Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Telecommunications
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 61 37
Rank change year-on-year +16 -24 +31
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 12 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.33% 0.94% 1.04%
As % of the General category 4.30% 1.68% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,750 £35,000 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -26.58% -2.88%
75th Percentile £45,000 £35,938 £51,556
90th Percentile £63,000 £37,625 £53,886
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £36,750 £35,000 £25,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +40.00% -49.07%

All General Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

Telecoms falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 279 417 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 54.17% 56.12% 58.33%
Number of salaries quoted 192 171 141
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £26,750 £34,750 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,250 £44,274 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% -11.45% -9.09%
75th Percentile £59,927 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £87,500 £75,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £40,331 £40,000 £47,982
% change year-on-year +0.83% -16.63% -8.61%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Telecoms relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Telecoms
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Telecoms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in Newcastle upon Tyne

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (8.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
1 6 (50.00%) PSTN
1 6 (50.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Support Specialist
2 3 (25.00%) Account Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Telecoms Account Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Telecoms Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Business Sales Executive
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Field Sales Executive
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Procurement
3 1 (8.33%) New Business Sales Executive
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) FreeSWITCH
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (25.00%) Business Development
3 1 (8.33%) ChatOps
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Contract Management
3 1 (8.33%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (8.33%) Line Management
3 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (8.33%) Observability
3 1 (8.33%) People Management
3 1 (8.33%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Bash
1 6 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CCNP
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
1 6 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco