Telecommunications Architect
UK

The median Telecommunications Architect salary in the UK is £73,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 882 976 1193
Rank change year-on-year +94 +217 -332
Permanent jobs requiring a Telecoms Architect 7 2 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.002% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.002% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 17
10th Percentile £70,600 - -
25th Percentile £71,500 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 - £76,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.59%
75th Percentile £96,500 - £87,500
90th Percentile £110,600 - £90,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £120,000 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +13.21%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Telecoms Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Telecoms Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms Architect in the UK

Telecoms Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Telecoms Architect.

Salary trend for Telecoms Architect in the UK

Telecoms Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms Architect over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Telecoms Architect in the UK

Telecoms Architect
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +118 6 £95,000 - 2
UK excluding London +6 5 £120,000 - 2
Work from Home - 5 £73,000 -
South West - 4 - -
South East +18 1 £120,000 - 1
London - 1 £70,000 -

Telecoms Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Telecoms Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Telecoms Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) OWASP
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Database Security
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (14.29%) Kali Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling

Telecoms Architect Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Blockchain
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (14.29%) Data Encryption
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Database Security
2 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (14.29%) Network Management
2 1 (14.29%) OWASP
2 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Suricata
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Juniper
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
1 1 (14.29%) Sparx
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk