Public Switched Telecom Network (PSTN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PSTN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PSTN over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 877 986 1171
Rank change year-on-year +109 +185 -291
Permanent jobs citing PSTN 31 12 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.011% 0.022%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.23% 0.074% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 33
10th Percentile £25,750 £22,200 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,250 - £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £24,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +77.08% -40.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £45,625 £29,438 £50,000
90th Percentile £46,250 £34,900 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £26,500 £24,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +10.42% -40.00% -14.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

PSTN 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 13,593 16,214 20,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.98% 15.22% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,556 8,425 11,876
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £88,283 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

PSTN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PSTN in the UK

PSTN
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PSTN in the UK

PSTN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PSTN over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PSTN in the UK

PSTN
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PSTN within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +151 31 £42,500 +77.08% 5
UK excluding London +37 26 £26,500 +10.42% 6
South East +24 24 £26,500 +12.77% 1
London +155 5 £45,000 - 1
Work from Home +99 2 £26,500 -11.67% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 2

PSTN
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) Exchange Server 2010
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (77.42%) ISDN
2 23 (74.19%) Wi-Fi
3 22 (70.97%) 5G
3 22 (70.97%) Bluetooth
3 22 (70.97%) GSM
3 22 (70.97%) LTE
3 22 (70.97%) UMTS
3 22 (70.97%) Wireless
4 3 (9.68%) Broadband
5 2 (6.45%) Ethernet
5 2 (6.45%) Internet
5 2 (6.45%) PBX
5 2 (6.45%) VLAN
6 1 (3.23%) Firewall
6 1 (3.23%) LAN
6 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle9i Database
1 1 (3.23%) OrientDB
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (70.97%) LabVIEW
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 24 (77.42%) Telecoms
2 22 (70.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Hardware Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Test Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) Hardware Test Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Hardware Technician
5 4 (12.90%) Support Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Associate Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) QA Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (6.45%) QA Technician
7 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) DBA
8 1 (3.23%) Desktop Support
8 1 (3.23%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Network Analyst
8 1 (3.23%) Network Support Analyst
8 1 (3.23%) Oracle DBA
8 1 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) J2EE
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 22 (70.97%) Acoustics
1 22 (70.97%) Satnav
2 5 (16.13%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.23%) Clustering
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 5 (16.13%) Windows 10
2 5 (16.13%) Windows 7
3 2 (6.45%) Android
3 2 (6.45%) Mac OS X
4 1 (3.23%) Solaris
4 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) Agile
2 22 (70.97%) Coaching
2 22 (70.97%) Critical Thinking
2 22 (70.97%) Data Management
2 22 (70.97%) Test Automation
2 22 (70.97%) Test Scripting
3 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.45%) Customer Service
5 1 (3.23%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (3.23%) CI/CD
5 1 (3.23%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.23%) Hardware Maintenance
5 1 (3.23%) High Availability
5 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (3.23%) ITIL
5 1 (3.23%) Network Planning
5 1 (3.23%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (3.23%) Proactive Maintenance
5 1 (3.23%) Storage Management
5 1 (3.23%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) SQL
3 1 (3.23%) C++
3 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.23%) ProC
Qualifications
1 22 (70.97%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Avaya
2 6 (19.35%) Cisco
3 5 (16.13%) Bloomberg
3 5 (16.13%) Palo Alto
3 5 (16.13%) Symantec
3 5 (16.13%) Veeam
4 2 (6.45%) Samsung
4 2 (6.45%) VMware
5 1 (3.23%) BT
5 1 (3.23%) Dell
5 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.23%) HP
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle
5 1 (3.23%) Qualys
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow