Telecoms Job Trends in the East of England

Telecommunications
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 89 86
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -58
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 88 61 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.42% 2.36% 2.51%
As % of the General category 3.04% 3.65% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 73 26 87
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,200 £29,800
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £58,125
90th Percentile £80,000 - £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -18.18%

All General Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,899 1,671 3,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 46.86% 64.52% 56.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 872 2,448
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,550 £25,809
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,542 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% +9.87% -16.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,313 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,953 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -13.22%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Telecoms relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Telecoms job vacancy trend in the East of England

Telecoms
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Telecoms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the East of England

Telecoms
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Essex -9 25 £35,000 -17.65% 9
Hertfordshire -20 25 £50,000 +17.65% 26
Suffolk +6 15 £40,000 -42.86% 1
Cambridgeshire -16 11 £75,000 -3.23% 40
Norfolk - 8 £35,000 - 2
Bedfordshire +3 4 £24,000 -
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (5.68%) AWS
3 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.41%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.41%) SaaS
5 2 (2.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.05%) Broadband
2 12 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (12.50%) Firewall
4 9 (10.23%) VPN
5 6 (6.82%) DNS
5 6 (6.82%) VoIP
6 5 (5.68%) DHCP
6 5 (5.68%) LAN
6 5 (5.68%) VLAN
7 2 (2.27%) Ethernet
7 2 (2.27%) Internet
7 2 (2.27%) IPv6
8 1 (1.14%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.14%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (1.14%) Network Security
8 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.14%) Wireless
8 1 (1.14%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (3.41%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (2.27%) Metadata
2 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Git
1 1 (1.14%) GitLab
1 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.14%) Selenium
1 1 (1.14%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.50%) Finance
3 9 (10.23%) Retail
4 8 (9.09%) Electronics
5 7 (7.95%) Legal
6 6 (6.82%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.27%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Advertising
9 1 (1.14%) Billing
9 1 (1.14%) Games
9 1 (1.14%) Military
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 16 (18.18%) IT Support
2 11 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 11 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 11 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 10 (11.36%) Senior
4 7 (7.95%) Category Manager
4 7 (7.95%) IT Manager
5 5 (5.68%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 5 (5.68%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Lead
6 4 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.27%) JSON
2 1 (1.14%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.14%) JSON-LD
2 1 (1.14%) Pandas
2 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.95%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.55%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.27%) CCTV
4 2 (2.27%) IoT
4 2 (2.27%) Semantic Web
4 2 (2.27%) Social Media
5 1 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Linked Data
5 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.14%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.14%) Robotics
5 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.14%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.95%) Linux
2 6 (6.82%) Windows
3 5 (5.68%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.27%) Android
5 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.45%) Telesales
2 15 (17.05%) Business Development
3 13 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 11 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (11.36%) Contract Negotiation
5 10 (11.36%) Lead Generation
6 9 (10.23%) CRM
7 7 (7.95%) B2B
7 7 (7.95%) Cost Reduction
7 7 (7.95%) ERP
7 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (7.95%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (7.95%) Risk Management
8 6 (6.82%) Coaching
8 6 (6.82%) Decision-Making
8 6 (6.82%) Service Delivery
8 6 (6.82%) Software Engineering
9 5 (5.68%) Asset Management
9 5 (5.68%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.68%) Python
3 4 (4.55%) SQL
4 2 (2.27%) C++
5 1 (1.14%) C
5 1 (1.14%) Java
5 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.14%) PHP
5 1 (1.14%) SHACL
5 1 (1.14%) SPARQL
5 1 (1.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.27%) ACCA
4 2 (2.27%) CIMA
5 1 (1.14%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.14%) Degree
5 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.14%) GDPR
2 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.14%) JTAG
2 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.14%) Docker
3 1 (1.14%) Firmware
Vendors
1 14 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.55%) SAP
3 2 (2.27%) Sophos
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco
4 1 (1.14%) MikroTik