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 3 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 56 71
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 -1
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 17 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.21% 0.24% 0.71%
As % of the General category 5.17% 0.36% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 16 0 6
10th Percentile - - £22,750
25th Percentile £31,750 - £23,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 - £25,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.05%
75th Percentile £49,688 - £27,000
90th Percentile £65,000 - £41,220
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £45,000 £34,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% +38.00% -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 general skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 329 274 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 42.84% 66.02% 58.91%
Number of salaries quoted 248 126 425
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,789 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,075 £85,000 £75,772
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -13.04%

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 3 March 2026.

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 9 (52.94%) AWS
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
1 9 (52.94%) GitHub
1 9 (52.94%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) Firewall
2 7 (41.18%) DNS
2 7 (41.18%) HTTP
2 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
3 5 (29.41%) Asterisk PBX
3 5 (29.41%) PSTN
3 5 (29.41%) VoIP
4 1 (5.88%) Broadband
4 1 (5.88%) DSLAM
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
General
1 7 (41.18%) Law
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Support Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Account Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cabling Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Field Sales Executive
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Junior DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Junior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) New Business Sales Executive
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Account Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (29.41%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.88%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps
1 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
2 7 (41.18%) Continuous Delivery
2 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (41.18%) DevSecOps
2 7 (41.18%) High Availability
2 7 (41.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (41.18%) Static Code Analysis
2 7 (41.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
4 5 (29.41%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
5 2 (11.76%) ChatOps
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Observability
5 2 (11.76%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Bash
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) CCNP
1 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (29.41%) CompTIA Security+
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
1 5 (29.41%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Grafana
1 9 (52.94%) Prometheus
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
2 7 (41.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) BT