Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GSM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GSM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 850 929 1189
Rank change year-on-year +79 +260 -300
Permanent jobs citing GSM 46 41 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.039% 0.028%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.34% 0.26% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 21 32 5
10th Percentile - £32,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £51,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £102,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £110,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £58,750 -
% change year-on-year -29.36% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

GSM is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

GSM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GSM in the UK

GSM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GSM.

Salary trend for GSM in the UK

GSM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GSM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for GSM in the UK

GSM
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GSM within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +121 46 £50,000 -28.57% 14
UK excluding London +30 41 £41,500 -29.36% 11
South East +34 23 £60,000 +48.15% 5
East of England +18 8 £38,000 -41.54% 5
London +124 5 £75,000 -31.82% 3
Midlands - 5 £62,500 - 1
South West - 5 £45,000 -
West Midlands - 5 £62,500 - 1
Work from Home +59 3 - - 3

GSM
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) Azure
1 5 (10.87%) GCP
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.17%) AWS
2 1 (2.17%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 34 (73.91%) Bluetooth
2 32 (69.57%) Wi-Fi
3 31 (67.39%) LTE
4 27 (58.70%) 5G
4 27 (58.70%) Wireless
5 23 (50.00%) UMTS
6 22 (47.83%) ISDN
6 22 (47.83%) PSTN
7 9 (19.57%) 4G
8 8 (17.39%) 3G
8 8 (17.39%) GPRS
9 5 (10.87%) Firewall
9 5 (10.87%) LAN
9 5 (10.87%) MPLS
9 5 (10.87%) Network Security
9 5 (10.87%) PABX
9 5 (10.87%) VLAN
9 5 (10.87%) VSAT
9 5 (10.87%) WAN
9 5 (10.87%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (47.83%) LabVIEW
2 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (60.87%) Telecoms
2 22 (47.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Automotive
5 2 (4.35%) Electronics
6 1 (2.17%) Finance
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Hardware Engineer
2 10 (21.74%) Test Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) Senior
4 8 (17.39%) Hardware Test Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Support Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Support
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Support Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Hardware Technician
5 5 (10.87%) Network Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Technical Advisor
6 4 (8.70%) Telematics Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Associate Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) QA Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Quality Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) QA Technician
8 2 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Test Technician
Miscellaneous
1 22 (47.83%) Acoustics
1 22 (47.83%) Satnav
2 2 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (4.35%) IoT
3 1 (2.17%) FPGA
3 1 (2.17%) Verilog
3 1 (2.17%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Windows
1 7 (15.22%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Solaris
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Agile
2 22 (47.83%) Coaching
2 22 (47.83%) Critical Thinking
2 22 (47.83%) Data Management
2 22 (47.83%) Test Automation
2 22 (47.83%) Test Scripting
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Security
4 4 (8.70%) Business Continuity
4 4 (8.70%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (8.70%) Embedded Software Development
4 4 (8.70%) Multithreading
4 4 (8.70%) Remediation Plan
4 4 (8.70%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (8.70%) Risk Management
4 4 (8.70%) Scrum
4 4 (8.70%) Situational Awareness
4 4 (8.70%) Software Engineering
4 4 (8.70%) Telematics
4 4 (8.70%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) Python
2 6 (13.04%) C
3 1 (2.17%) C++
3 1 (2.17%) Embedded C
3 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
3 1 (2.17%) Perl
3 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (54.35%) Degree
2 12 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 4 (8.70%) Automotive SPICE
2 4 (8.70%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
1 5 (10.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Nagios
1 5 (10.87%) OfficeScan
1 5 (10.87%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 5 (10.87%) Centreon
1 5 (10.87%) CheckPoint
1 5 (10.87%) Cisco
1 5 (10.87%) Fortinet
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) EMC
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) SAP
3 1 (2.17%) Xilinx