Telecoms Jobs in England

Telecommunications
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 124 63
Rank change year-on-year +8 -61 +106
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 1,169 1,908 4,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.54% 2.24% 4.75%
As % of the General category 3.77% 3.78% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 436 1,298 1,149
10th Percentile £23,731 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,438 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,125 £78,750 £89,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -18.18% -

All General Skills
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 common skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 31,047 50,509 63,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 67.42% 59.28% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16,351 35,638 34,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,445 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.86% +0.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £83,426
90th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in England

Telecoms
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Telecoms in England

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in England

Telecoms
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Midlands +41 287 £37,500 -6.25% 142
South East -14 280 £31,500 -16.00% 328
North of England +48 265 £34,500 -23.33% 185
London +51 258 £70,000 +7.69% 453
North West +28 217 £47,683 +12.20% 116
West Midlands +57 209 £37,500 -16.67% 87
East Midlands +14 77 £38,750 -0.64% 46
East of England -20 53 £45,000 -7.69% 119
South West -33 51 £28,500 -28.75% 91
Yorkshire +48 40 £29,500 -37.89% 55
North East +41 7 £29,250 +6.36% 17
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (1.80%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.51%) SAS
4 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.17%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.086%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.086%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.086%) WordPress
Applications
1 63 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.60%) Maya
6 5 (0.43%) SPSS
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.086%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.086%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (1.88%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (0.60%) SAP IBP
2 7 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.086%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 84 (7.19%) Azure
2 74 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (5.99%) AWS
4 49 (4.19%) GCP
5 35 (2.99%) SaaS
6 24 (2.05%) PaaS
7 20 (1.71%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.03%) Serverless
9 9 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (0.77%) IBM Watson
10 6 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.43%) IaaS
11 5 (0.43%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.34%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.26%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.17%) Azure Monitor
14 2 (0.17%) ChatGPT
14 2 (0.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 102 (8.73%) TCP/IP
2 85 (7.27%) VPN
3 69 (5.90%) 5G
4 66 (5.65%) VoIP
5 57 (4.88%) Firewall
6 44 (3.76%) 4G
7 36 (3.08%) LAN
8 34 (2.91%) Broadband
9 31 (2.65%) Network Security
10 30 (2.57%) VLAN
11 29 (2.48%) Wireless
12 28 (2.40%) Internet
13 27 (2.31%) DNS
13 27 (2.31%) WAN
14 23 (1.97%) 3GPP
15 21 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (1.54%) MPLS
17 15 (1.28%) DHCP
18 12 (1.03%) PBX
19 10 (0.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (1.63%) Power BI
2 14 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.11%) SQL Server
4 12 (1.03%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.77%) MySQL
6 9 (0.77%) QlikView
6 9 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.68%) RDBMS
8 7 (0.60%) SAP BW
9 6 (0.51%) Big Data
10 5 (0.43%) Apache Hive
10 5 (0.43%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.43%) Tableau
11 4 (0.34%) GIS
11 4 (0.34%) Metadata
11 4 (0.34%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 64 (5.47%) Cucumber
1 64 (5.47%) Robot Framework
2 36 (3.08%) Git
3 28 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.11%) JIRA
5 3 (0.26%) GitLab
5 3 (0.26%) Maven
5 3 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.17%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.17%) Gradle
6 2 (0.17%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.086%) CMake
7 1 (0.086%) GDB
7 1 (0.086%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.086%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.086%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.086%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.086%) WinDbg
7 1 (0.086%) WiX
General
1 321 (27.46%) Automotive
2 299 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 248 (21.21%) Finance
4 122 (10.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (10.01%) Retail
6 114 (9.75%) Marketing
7 113 (9.67%) Manufacturing
8 100 (8.55%) Public Sector
9 97 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
10 90 (7.70%) Electronics
11 77 (6.59%) Law
12 49 (4.19%) Banking
13 41 (3.51%) Games
14 39 (3.34%) Legal
15 28 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.80%) Military
18 19 (1.63%) Billing
18 19 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
19 15 (1.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 265 (22.67%) Principal Engineer
2 261 (22.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 239 (20.44%) Senior
4 152 (13.00%) Systems Engineer
5 95 (8.13%) Analyst
6 68 (5.82%) IT Support
7 65 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 64 (5.47%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 64 (5.47%) Test Automation Engineer
9 52 (4.45%) Support Analyst
10 46 (3.93%) IT Analyst
11 45 (3.85%) Support Engineer
12 40 (3.42%) IT Support Analyst
13 38 (3.25%) Developer
14 36 (3.08%) Architect
15 32 (2.74%) Risk Manager
15 32 (2.74%) Technology Risk Manager
16 29 (2.48%) Network Engineer
16 29 (2.48%) Technical Support
17 26 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.05%) Node.js
2 14 (1.20%) REST
3 11 (0.94%) RESTful
4 10 (0.86%) Spring Boot
5 9 (0.77%) Middleware
6 8 (0.68%) Kafka
6 8 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (0.60%) FastAPI
7 7 (0.60%) Flask
8 6 (0.51%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.51%) HTML
9 5 (0.43%) 802.1X
9 5 (0.43%) CSS
9 5 (0.43%) React
9 5 (0.43%) XML
10 4 (0.34%) JSON
11 3 (0.26%) EDI
11 3 (0.26%) GraphQL
12 2 (0.17%) Software Packaging
12 2 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.65%) Linux Command Line
2 62 (5.30%) Management Information System
3 55 (4.70%) Robotics
4 54 (4.62%) Blockchain
5 32 (2.74%) Driving Licence
6 24 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (1.88%) IoT
7 22 (1.88%) Public Cloud
8 21 (1.80%) Data Centre
9 19 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.37%) CCTV
11 13 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (0.86%) Onboarding
12 10 (0.86%) PACS
13 9 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.68%) Analogue Electronics
14 8 (0.68%) PMI
14 8 (0.68%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 176 (15.06%) Windows
2 124 (10.61%) Linux
3 41 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.91%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.11%) Mac OS
6 12 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.94%) Android
8 9 (0.77%) Unix
9 5 (0.43%) Mac OS X
9 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.34%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.17%) Android TV
11 2 (0.17%) VMS
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.086%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (26.95%) Systems Engineering
2 238 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
3 167 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 160 (13.69%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 139 (11.89%) Mentoring
6 134 (11.46%) Customer Service
7 125 (10.69%) Coaching
8 115 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
9 113 (9.67%) DevOps
10 107 (9.15%) Project Planning
11 104 (8.90%) Analytics
12 101 (8.64%) Agile
13 94 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
14 93 (7.96%) Artificial Intelligence
15 82 (7.01%) Programme Management
16 78 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
17 77 (6.59%) Test Automation
18 69 (5.90%) Project Delivery
19 66 (5.65%) System Testing
20 64 (5.47%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 169 (14.46%) Python
2 80 (6.84%) Bash
2 80 (6.84%) PowerShell
3 74 (6.33%) JavaScript
4 42 (3.59%) SQL
5 40 (3.42%) R
6 23 (1.97%) C
6 23 (1.97%) Java
7 18 (1.54%) C++
8 14 (1.20%) Perl
9 12 (1.03%) C#
10 11 (0.94%) PHP
11 9 (0.77%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.43%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.26%) Assembly Language
15 2 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.17%) Ruby
15 2 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 541 (46.28%) Degree
2 88 (7.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 74 (6.33%) Security Cleared
4 48 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (2.99%) CCNP
6 34 (2.91%) SC Cleared
7 31 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.31%) Master's Degree
9 24 (2.05%) CCNA
10 22 (1.88%) CISA
10 22 (1.88%) ISACA
10 22 (1.88%) PMI Certification
11 21 (1.80%) CISSP
12 20 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
13 17 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (1.37%) A+ Certification
15 14 (1.20%) CCIE
15 14 (1.20%) PMP
16 10 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.77%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.87%) QA
2 45 (3.85%) ITGC
3 24 (2.05%) NCSC
4 23 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.97%) SLA
5 18 (1.54%) GDPR
6 11 (0.94%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.68%) NIST
9 7 (0.60%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.60%) MIL-STD-1553
10 6 (0.51%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.34%) PMO
12 3 (0.26%) NEBOSH
12 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 14001
13 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 41 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.71%) Docker
3 6 (0.51%) vSphere
4 5 (0.43%) Firmware
4 5 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.086%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.086%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 32 (2.74%) Terraform
3 29 (2.48%) Ansible
4 9 (0.77%) SCCM
5 7 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (0.34%) Puppet
7 3 (0.26%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 2 (0.17%) EnCase
8 2 (0.17%) FTK
8 2 (0.17%) Nmap
8 2 (0.17%) RSA Security Analytics
9 1 (0.086%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.086%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.086%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.086%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.086%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.086%) Netcool
9 1 (0.086%) WSUS
Vendors
1 151 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 114 (9.75%) SAP
3 56 (4.79%) Cisco
4 32 (2.74%) Oracle
5 26 (2.22%) Google
6 19 (1.63%) VMware
7 17 (1.45%) F5
8 15 (1.28%) CheckPoint
9 14 (1.20%) BT
10 13 (1.11%) Apple
11 11 (0.94%) Fortinet
12 10 (0.86%) Databricks
12 10 (0.86%) HP
12 10 (0.86%) IBM
12 10 (0.86%) Juniper
13 9 (0.77%) Arista
13 9 (0.77%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.68%) Dell
14 8 (0.68%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.60%) Ariba