Telecoms Jobs in the UK excluding London

Telecommunications
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 41 140
Rank change year-on-year -76 +99 -25
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 1,704 3,912 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.41% 6.51% 2.61%
As % of the General category 4.19% 9.48% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,136 719 1,164
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £44,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -7.37% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,667 41,255 43,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.40% 68.63% 60.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,395 18,794 24,252
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,418 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South East -30 604 £37,500 -11.76% 151
Midlands -57 277 £40,000 -11.11% 90
South West -61 264 £40,000 -15.79% 76
North of England -126 258 £45,000 +4.65% 115
North West -89 171 £42,500 -24.78% 71
West Midlands -53 159 £41,250 -17.50% 57
East of England -64 148 £50,000 -16.67% 65
East Midlands -44 118 £39,000 -3.70% 33
Scotland -129 76 £42,500 - 23
Yorkshire -105 69 £47,500 +11.76% 31
Northern Ireland +14 39 £35,000 +27.27% 8
Wales -55 29 £32,500 -22.62% 19
North East -80 18 £27,500 -24.66% 14
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 63 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.47%) Apache
4 7 (0.41%) nginx
5 4 (0.23%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) Confluence
5 4 (0.23%) Moodle
6 3 (0.18%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.18%) WordPress
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.059%) IIS
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 130 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.35%) OrCAD
7 5 (0.29%) InfoPath
8 4 (0.23%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.23%) Simulink
9 2 (0.12%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.059%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.059%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
1 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.059%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.059%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
4 1 (0.059%) Primavera
4 1 (0.059%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 173 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
2 171 (10.04%) Azure
3 68 (3.99%) AWS
4 58 (3.40%) SaaS
5 54 (3.17%) Entra ID
6 39 (2.29%) Power Platform
7 24 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (1.23%) GitHub
8 21 (1.23%) OneDrive
9 17 (1.00%) GCP
10 13 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (0.70%) Mimecast
12 11 (0.65%) PaaS
13 9 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (0.35%) Twilio
15 5 (0.29%) AWS IoT
15 5 (0.29%) IaaS
15 5 (0.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 184 (10.80%) Firewall
2 102 (5.99%) Broadband
3 96 (5.63%) 5G
4 92 (5.40%) Wireless
5 89 (5.22%) Wi-Fi
6 83 (4.87%) VoIP
7 79 (4.64%) WAN
8 78 (4.58%) VPN
9 72 (4.23%) LAN
9 72 (4.23%) TCP/IP
10 62 (3.64%) Internet
11 56 (3.29%) DNS
12 53 (3.11%) 4G
13 42 (2.46%) LTE
14 39 (2.29%) Network Security
15 38 (2.23%) PBX
16 37 (2.17%) MPLS
17 34 (2.00%) DHCP
18 29 (1.70%) Bluetooth
18 29 (1.70%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (2.23%) Power BI
2 30 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (1.70%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.23%) MySQL
5 11 (0.65%) SQLite
6 9 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
7 8 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.47%) GIS
8 7 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.41%) Redis
9 6 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.35%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.35%) Tableau
10 4 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.23%) Power Query
11 3 (0.18%) Big Data
11 3 (0.18%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.18%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.12%) Impala
12 2 (0.12%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 66 (3.87%) Git
2 33 (1.94%) JIRA
3 24 (1.41%) LabVIEW
4 20 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.00%) Eclipse
6 15 (0.88%) Subversion
7 13 (0.76%) Visual Studio
8 10 (0.59%) Trac
9 8 (0.47%) GCC
9 8 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.35%) Maven
11 5 (0.29%) Selenium
12 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.23%) GitLab
12 4 (0.23%) Hudson
12 4 (0.23%) Vagrant
13 3 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
13 3 (0.18%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Continuum
14 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
General
1 508 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 342 (20.07%) Finance
3 194 (11.38%) Electronics
4 175 (10.27%) Marketing
5 169 (9.92%) Manufacturing
6 159 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
7 156 (9.15%) Public Sector
8 107 (6.28%) Retail
9 86 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
10 63 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 63 (3.70%) Legal
11 58 (3.40%) Law
12 50 (2.93%) Billing
13 47 (2.76%) Local Government
14 40 (2.35%) Military
15 35 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.64%) Aerospace
17 25 (1.47%) Automotive
18 18 (1.06%) Brand Awareness
19 15 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (8.10%) Support Engineer
2 137 (8.04%) Senior
3 107 (6.28%) Project Manager
4 103 (6.04%) Developer
5 94 (5.52%) Lead
6 87 (5.11%) Analyst
7 80 (4.69%) IT Engineer
8 78 (4.58%) Telecoms Manager
9 72 (4.23%) IT Support
10 69 (4.05%) Business Manager
10 69 (4.05%) Development Manager
11 60 (3.52%) Business Development Manager
12 59 (3.46%) Technical Support
13 57 (3.35%) Team Leader
14 55 (3.23%) IT Manager
15 52 (3.05%) IT Support Engineer
16 50 (2.93%) Consultant
16 50 (2.93%) Technical Engineer
17 49 (2.88%) Network Engineer
18 47 (2.76%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.29%) HTML
2 38 (2.23%) CSS
3 33 (1.94%) .NET
4 27 (1.58%) React
5 21 (1.23%) Flask
6 16 (0.94%) AngularJS
6 16 (0.94%) Laravel
7 13 (0.76%) Django
7 13 (0.76%) REST
8 12 (0.70%) .NET Framework
8 12 (0.70%) 802.1X
9 10 (0.59%) WPF
9 10 (0.59%) XML
10 9 (0.53%) HTML5
11 8 (0.47%) Svelte
11 8 (0.47%) Vue
12 7 (0.41%) LDAP
12 7 (0.41%) Qt
12 7 (0.41%) RESTful
13 6 (0.35%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 125 (7.34%) Driving Licence
2 96 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
3 85 (4.99%) Management Information System
4 41 (2.41%) Data Centre
4 41 (2.41%) IoT
5 38 (2.23%) CCTV
6 32 (1.88%) Fibre Optics
7 27 (1.58%) Product Ownership
8 26 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
8 26 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 22 (1.29%) Acoustics
9 22 (1.29%) Satnav
10 18 (1.06%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.00%) Replication
12 16 (0.94%) FPGA
12 16 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
13 15 (0.88%) Robotics
14 14 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
15 13 (0.76%) ARM Cortex
15 13 (0.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 215 (12.62%) Windows
2 134 (7.86%) Linux
3 109 (6.40%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.76%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (0.70%) CentOS
9 10 (0.59%) Unix
10 9 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
11 8 (0.47%) Android
11 8 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.41%) VMS
12 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.35%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.35%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
2 255 (14.96%) Customer Service
3 202 (11.85%) Project Management
4 166 (9.74%) Business Intelligence
5 155 (9.10%) Agile
6 152 (8.92%) Digital Marketing
7 150 (8.80%) Programme Management
8 127 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
9 119 (6.98%) Project Delivery
10 100 (5.87%) Customer Experience
11 97 (5.69%) Business Development
12 96 (5.63%) B2B
13 92 (5.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 89 (5.22%) Software Engineering
15 84 (4.93%) Mentoring
16 83 (4.87%) Computer Science
16 83 (4.87%) ITIL
17 82 (4.81%) CRM
18 77 (4.52%) Change Management
19 73 (4.28%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (8.57%) Python
2 95 (5.58%) C
3 92 (5.40%) SQL
4 67 (3.93%) C#
5 66 (3.87%) JavaScript
6 61 (3.58%) C++
7 51 (2.99%) Java
8 26 (1.53%) PHP
8 26 (1.53%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.17%) Embedded C
10 16 (0.94%) Go
11 15 (0.88%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.65%) MATLAB
12 11 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.59%) R
14 9 (0.53%) Assembly Language
14 9 (0.53%) Bash
14 9 (0.53%) Embedded C++
14 9 (0.53%) Perl
15 8 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 320 (18.78%) Degree
2 158 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 96 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 41 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
5 36 (2.11%) HNC
6 33 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (1.82%) CCNA
8 30 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.58%) HND
11 26 (1.53%) DV Cleared
12 24 (1.41%) DBS Check
12 24 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 22 (1.29%) CISSP
14 19 (1.12%) ACCA
14 19 (1.12%) CIMA
14 19 (1.12%) CISM
15 18 (1.06%) A+ Certification
16 14 (0.82%) CCNP
16 14 (0.82%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.52%) SLA
2 59 (3.46%) QA
3 34 (2.00%) GDPR
4 25 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 22 (1.29%) ISO 9001
6 21 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.06%) PMO
8 15 (0.88%) NCSC
9 13 (0.76%) GRC
10 12 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 11 (0.65%) NIST
12 10 (0.59%) COSHH
13 9 (0.53%) Data Quality
14 8 (0.47%) NEBOSH
14 8 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.35%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.23%) IEC 61131
16 4 (0.23%) JTAG
System Software
1 127 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 80 (4.69%) Hyper-V
3 44 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (2.23%) Docker
4 38 (2.23%) Firmware
5 21 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.94%) pfSense
8 13 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.59%) NFS
10 6 (0.35%) Terminal Services
10 6 (0.35%) vSphere
11 3 (0.18%) Ceph
11 3 (0.18%) Gluster
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) oVirt
12 2 (0.12%) HDFS
12 2 (0.12%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.059%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 36 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (1.17%) Ansible
3 19 (1.12%) ZABBIX
4 16 (0.94%) Grafana
4 16 (0.94%) Kubernetes
4 16 (0.94%) SCCM
5 14 (0.82%) FortiGate
6 11 (0.65%) Terraform
7 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 10 (0.59%) SCDPM
8 7 (0.41%) Nessus
9 6 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 4 (0.23%) AirWatch
10 4 (0.23%) Autotask
11 3 (0.18%) Graylog
11 3 (0.18%) Observium
11 3 (0.18%) PaperCut
11 3 (0.18%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.18%) Puppet
12 2 (0.12%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 359 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 141 (8.27%) SAP
3 96 (5.63%) Cisco
4 74 (4.34%) VMware
5 65 (3.81%) Openreach
6 58 (3.40%) Virgin Media
7 49 (2.88%) Juniper
8 42 (2.46%) Veeam
9 39 (2.29%) NEC
10 36 (2.11%) HP
11 31 (1.82%) BT
11 31 (1.82%) Fortinet
12 30 (1.76%) Aruba
13 27 (1.58%) Oracle
14 24 (1.41%) Salesforce
15 23 (1.35%) Ericsson
16 21 (1.23%) McAfee
17 20 (1.17%) Sage
18 16 (0.94%) Mitel
18 16 (0.94%) Palo Alto