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 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 43 73
Rank change year-on-year -14 +30 -27
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 12 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.31% 0.98% 0.63%
As % of the General category 3.21% 1.55% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 6
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,200 £22,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £28,875 £23,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £30,000 £25,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% +17.65% -48.05%
75th Percentile £51,563 £32,500 £27,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £34,000 £41,220
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £30,000 £26,000
% change year-on-year +58.33% +15.38% -47.03%

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 374 193 581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 40.79% 62.87% 60.77%
Number of salaries quoted 271 133 487
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £37,716 £35,460
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,640 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,700 £75,772
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% -4.15%

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 2 April 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 10 (83.33%) AWS
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
1 10 (83.33%) GitHub
1 10 (83.33%) GitHub Actions
2 9 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) DNS
1 9 (75.00%) Firewall
1 9 (75.00%) HTTP
1 9 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) Broadband
2 1 (8.33%) DSLAM
2 1 (8.33%) RFID
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 9 (75.00%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Junior
2 2 (16.67%) Junior DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Junior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Cabling Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Field Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (8.33%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
1 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 9 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 9 (75.00%) High Availability
2 9 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 9 (75.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 9 (75.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (8.33%) ChatOps
3 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (8.33%) Mechatronics
3 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (8.33%) OCR
3 1 (8.33%) People Management
3 1 (8.33%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Bash
1 9 (75.00%) Go
1 9 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Grafana
1 10 (83.33%) Prometheus
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 9 (75.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) BT