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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 125 60
Rank change year-on-year -13 -65 +123
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 1,159 2,046 4,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.35% 2.12% 5.10%
As % of the General category 3.35% 3.74% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 492 1,353 1,057
10th Percentile £23,731 £25,500 £27,300
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,870
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - -21.05% +3.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £88,750
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 34,570 54,674 54,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 70.08% 56.65% 67.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,342 36,832 31,278
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £32,200
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +53 309 £35,000 -17.65% 1,017
London +57 271 £65,000 - 2,267
South East -40 271 £32,500 -14.47% 1,801
West Midlands +82 224 £28,500 -30.91% 597
North of England +8 217 £40,000 -2.44% 1,337
North West -9 170 £45,000 +9.76% 700
East Midlands +2 84 £42,500 -6.59% 412
South West -31 64 £28,500 -28.75% 657
East of England -50 51 £45,000 +5.88% 843
Yorkshire +46 39 £29,500 -37.89% 554
North East +25 7 £29,250 +6.36% 89
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 20 (1.73%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.35%) SAS
4 2 (0.17%) CMS
4 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.17%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.086%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.086%) Confluence
5 1 (0.086%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.086%) WordPress
Applications
1 80 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.60%) Maya
7 4 (0.35%) SPSS
8 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.086%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.086%) InDesign
10 1 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (1.90%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.60%) SAP IBP
2 7 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.52%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.086%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 70 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (5.44%) AWS
2 63 (5.44%) Azure
3 44 (3.80%) GCP
4 24 (2.07%) SaaS
5 18 (1.55%) Serverless
6 15 (1.29%) Power Platform
7 13 (1.12%) PaaS
8 10 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.43%) Entra ID
11 5 (0.43%) IaaS
11 5 (0.43%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.35%) IBM Watson
13 3 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.26%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.26%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.17%) ChatGPT
14 2 (0.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 106 (9.15%) TCP/IP
2 89 (7.68%) VPN
3 68 (5.87%) VoIP
4 61 (5.26%) 5G
4 61 (5.26%) Firewall
5 43 (3.71%) 4G
6 38 (3.28%) Broadband
7 32 (2.76%) LAN
8 29 (2.50%) DNS
9 26 (2.24%) WAN
9 26 (2.24%) Wireless
10 24 (2.07%) Internet
10 24 (2.07%) VLAN
11 22 (1.90%) Network Security
12 19 (1.64%) 3GPP
13 18 (1.55%) DHCP
14 16 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (1.21%) MPLS
16 13 (1.12%) BGP
16 13 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (1.29%) NoSQL
3 14 (1.21%) Power BI
4 13 (1.12%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.04%) RDBMS
6 9 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.78%) MySQL
7 8 (0.69%) SQL Server
8 7 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.60%) SAP BW
9 6 (0.52%) Big Data
10 4 (0.35%) Apache Hive
10 4 (0.35%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.35%) QlikView
10 4 (0.35%) Tableau
11 2 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.17%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.17%) Metadata
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 64 (5.52%) Cucumber
1 64 (5.52%) Robot Framework
2 21 (1.81%) Git
3 17 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.69%) JIRA
5 2 (0.17%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.17%) GitLab
5 2 (0.17%) Gradle
5 2 (0.17%) Maven
5 2 (0.17%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.17%) Subversion
5 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.086%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.086%) CMake
6 1 (0.086%) GDB
6 1 (0.086%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.086%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.086%) WinDbg
6 1 (0.086%) WiX
General
1 321 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 294 (25.37%) Finance
3 249 (21.48%) Automotive
4 135 (11.65%) Marketing
5 130 (11.22%) Manufacturing
6 120 (10.35%) Law
7 114 (9.84%) Retail
8 113 (9.75%) Public Sector
9 112 (9.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 107 (9.23%) Electronics
11 104 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
12 84 (7.25%) Military
13 50 (4.31%) Banking
14 41 (3.54%) Legal
15 40 (3.45%) Games
16 23 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
18 19 (1.64%) Billing
18 19 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (1.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 214 (18.46%) Senior
2 192 (16.57%) Principal Engineer
3 189 (16.31%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 154 (13.29%) Systems Engineer
5 89 (7.68%) Analyst
6 83 (7.16%) IT Support
7 65 (5.61%) Test Engineer
8 64 (5.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 64 (5.52%) Test Automation Engineer
9 55 (4.75%) Support Analyst
10 49 (4.23%) IT Analyst
11 41 (3.54%) IT Support Analyst
11 41 (3.54%) Support Engineer
12 39 (3.36%) Project Manager
13 36 (3.11%) Developer
14 32 (2.76%) Support Manager
15 28 (2.42%) Technical Support
16 27 (2.33%) Architect
17 26 (2.24%) IT Manager
18 25 (2.16%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.73%) REST
2 18 (1.55%) Spring Boot
3 17 (1.47%) FastAPI
3 17 (1.47%) Node.js
4 11 (0.95%) Flask
5 10 (0.86%) Kafka
6 9 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (0.78%) RESTful
7 8 (0.69%) Spring
8 7 (0.60%) Middleware
9 5 (0.43%) HTML
10 4 (0.35%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.35%) CSS
10 4 (0.35%) XML
11 3 (0.26%) GraphQL
11 3 (0.26%) JSON
11 3 (0.26%) React
12 2 (0.17%) Jinja
12 2 (0.17%) libvirt
12 2 (0.17%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.69%) Linux Command Line
2 58 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 49 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 48 (4.14%) Robotics
5 47 (4.06%) Blockchain
6 27 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
8 20 (1.73%) IoT
9 18 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.38%) CCTV
11 11 (0.95%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (0.86%) Onboarding
13 9 (0.78%) Cloud Native
13 9 (0.78%) Handset
14 8 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.69%) PMI
14 8 (0.69%) Social Network
15 7 (0.60%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 164 (14.15%) Windows
2 117 (10.09%) Linux
3 44 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.76%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.78%) Unix
8 7 (0.60%) Android
9 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.086%) Android TV
10 1 (0.086%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.086%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.086%) Solaris
10 1 (0.086%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (21.23%) Systems Engineering
2 224 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
3 154 (13.29%) Customer Service
4 140 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
5 132 (11.39%) Mentoring
6 128 (11.04%) Coaching
7 113 (9.75%) Business Intelligence
8 111 (9.58%) DevOps
9 108 (9.32%) Project Planning
10 97 (8.37%) Programme Management
11 96 (8.28%) Agile
12 95 (8.20%) Digital Marketing
13 93 (8.02%) Artificial Intelligence
14 91 (7.85%) Architectural Design
15 88 (7.59%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
16 86 (7.42%) Analytics
17 78 (6.73%) Project Management
18 76 (6.56%) Collaborative Working
18 76 (6.56%) Test Automation
19 67 (5.78%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 160 (13.81%) Python
2 82 (7.08%) Bash
2 82 (7.08%) PowerShell
3 74 (6.38%) JavaScript
4 41 (3.54%) SQL
5 31 (2.67%) R
6 24 (2.07%) Java
7 22 (1.90%) C
8 13 (1.12%) Perl
9 11 (0.95%) C++
9 11 (0.95%) PHP
10 10 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.69%) C#
11 8 (0.69%) MATLAB
12 7 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.26%) Assembly Language
13 3 (0.26%) Go
14 2 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.17%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 468 (40.38%) Degree
2 89 (7.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 76 (6.56%) Security Cleared
4 50 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
5 33 (2.85%) CCNP
5 33 (2.85%) PMI Certification
6 32 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 31 (2.67%) SC Cleared
8 30 (2.59%) CCNA
8 30 (2.59%) Master's Degree
9 25 (2.16%) CISSP
9 25 (2.16%) PMP
10 22 (1.90%) CISA
10 22 (1.90%) ISACA
11 19 (1.64%) A+ Certification
12 13 (1.12%) CCIE
12 13 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.78%) JNCIA
13 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.69%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (8.89%) QA
2 43 (3.71%) ITGC
3 24 (2.07%) GDPR
4 21 (1.81%) NCSC
5 20 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 18 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 17 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.29%) SLA
9 8 (0.69%) NIST
10 7 (0.60%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.60%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.60%) MIL-STD-1553
11 6 (0.52%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.35%) GAAP
13 3 (0.26%) COSHH
13 3 (0.26%) NEBOSH
13 3 (0.26%) PMO
13 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 34 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 28 (2.42%) Docker
3 6 (0.52%) Firmware
4 5 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.086%) Corosync
7 1 (0.086%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.086%) KVM
7 1 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.086%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.086%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.16%) Terraform
3 19 (1.64%) Ansible
4 6 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
5 4 (0.35%) Puppet
5 4 (0.35%) SCCM
6 2 (0.17%) EnCase
6 2 (0.17%) FTK
6 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.17%) Nmap
6 2 (0.17%) RSA Security Analytics
7 1 (0.086%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.086%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.086%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.086%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.086%) Grafana
7 1 (0.086%) Icinga
7 1 (0.086%) Pacemaker
7 1 (0.086%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.086%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 151 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 134 (11.56%) SAP
3 51 (4.40%) Cisco
4 35 (3.02%) Oracle
5 29 (2.50%) Google
6 13 (1.12%) VMware
7 12 (1.04%) BT
8 11 (0.95%) CheckPoint
9 10 (0.86%) Fortinet
9 10 (0.86%) Juniper
10 8 (0.69%) Apple
10 8 (0.69%) F5
11 7 (0.60%) Ariba
11 7 (0.60%) Arista
11 7 (0.60%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.52%) Dell
13 5 (0.43%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.43%) SolarWinds
13 5 (0.43%) Splunk
14 4 (0.35%) Vertica