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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 129 62
Rank change year-on-year -6 -67 +109
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 1,179 1,897 4,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.40% 2.21% 4.85%
As % of the General category 3.45% 3.72% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 447 1,290 1,097
10th Percentile £23,731 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,125 £31,250 £38,000
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 £88,000 £80,000 £87,500
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 34,204 50,928 60,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 69.52% 59.32% 68.23%
Number of salaries quoted 16,366 35,652 32,833
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,471 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,438 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,830 £95,000 £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 16 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 16 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 +43 292 £37,500 -6.25% 163
South East -21 280 £31,500 -16.00% 420
London +65 268 £70,000 +7.69% 578
North of England +23 260 £33,500 -25.56% 239
North West +5 210 £47,683 +12.20% 155
West Midlands +61 209 £28,500 -32.94% 94
East Midlands -1 82 £42,500 +8.97% 59
South West -31 55 £28,500 -28.75% 105
East of England -38 50 £45,000 -10.00% 152
Yorkshire +42 42 £29,500 -37.89% 66
North East +34 7 £29,250 +6.36% 21
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 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.42%) SAS
4 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.17%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.085%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 67 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (3.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.59%) Maya
6 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.42%) SPSS
7 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.085%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.085%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (1.87%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.59%) SAP IBP
2 7 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.51%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.085%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 77 (6.53%) Azure
2 75 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (5.85%) AWS
4 49 (4.16%) GCP
5 36 (3.05%) SaaS
6 25 (2.12%) PaaS
7 18 (1.53%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.02%) Serverless
9 9 (0.76%) IBM Watson
10 8 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.51%) IaaS
12 5 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.42%) OneDrive
13 3 (0.25%) Entra ID
14 2 (0.17%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (0.17%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.17%) Asana
14 2 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 102 (8.65%) TCP/IP
2 86 (7.29%) VPN
3 69 (5.85%) 5G
3 69 (5.85%) VoIP
4 58 (4.92%) Firewall
5 44 (3.73%) 4G
6 33 (2.80%) Broadband
7 31 (2.63%) LAN
8 29 (2.46%) Network Security
8 29 (2.46%) VLAN
9 26 (2.21%) DNS
9 26 (2.21%) Internet
9 26 (2.21%) Wireless
10 24 (2.04%) WAN
11 23 (1.95%) 3GPP
12 20 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (1.36%) DHCP
13 16 (1.36%) MPLS
14 12 (1.02%) PBX
15 10 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.53%) Power BI
2 13 (1.10%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.02%) NoSQL
3 12 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (0.85%) MySQL
5 9 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.76%) QlikView
5 9 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.68%) RDBMS
7 7 (0.59%) SAP BW
8 6 (0.51%) Big Data
9 5 (0.42%) Apache Hive
9 5 (0.42%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.34%) GIS
10 4 (0.34%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.34%) Tableau
11 3 (0.25%) Metadata
12 2 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 64 (5.43%) Cucumber
1 64 (5.43%) Robot Framework
2 32 (2.71%) Git
3 27 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.93%) JIRA
5 3 (0.25%) GitLab
6 2 (0.17%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.17%) Gradle
6 2 (0.17%) Maven
6 2 (0.17%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.085%) CMake
7 1 (0.085%) GDB
7 1 (0.085%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.085%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.085%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.085%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.085%) WinDbg
General
1 314 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 313 (26.55%) Automotive
3 263 (22.31%) Finance
4 120 (10.18%) Retail
5 118 (10.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 112 (9.50%) Marketing
7 110 (9.33%) Manufacturing
8 101 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
8 101 (8.57%) Law
9 97 (8.23%) Public Sector
10 86 (7.29%) Electronics
11 52 (4.41%) Banking
12 45 (3.82%) Military
13 41 (3.48%) Games
14 40 (3.39%) Legal
15 27 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.70%) Billing
18 18 (1.53%) Aerospace
18 18 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 257 (21.80%) Principal Engineer
2 253 (21.46%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 232 (19.68%) Senior
4 155 (13.15%) Systems Engineer
5 98 (8.31%) Analyst
6 72 (6.11%) IT Support
7 65 (5.51%) Test Engineer
8 64 (5.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 64 (5.43%) Test Automation Engineer
9 54 (4.58%) Support Analyst
10 47 (3.99%) IT Analyst
10 47 (3.99%) Support Engineer
11 40 (3.39%) IT Support Analyst
12 34 (2.88%) Developer
13 33 (2.80%) Architect
14 32 (2.71%) Risk Manager
14 32 (2.71%) Technology Risk Manager
15 29 (2.46%) Technical Support
16 28 (2.37%) Project Manager
17 27 (2.29%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.04%) Node.js
2 14 (1.19%) REST
3 12 (1.02%) Spring Boot
4 11 (0.93%) RESTful
5 9 (0.76%) FastAPI
5 9 (0.76%) Middleware
6 8 (0.68%) Kafka
6 8 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (0.59%) Flask
8 5 (0.42%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.42%) HTML
8 5 (0.42%) XML
9 4 (0.34%) 802.1X
9 4 (0.34%) CSS
9 4 (0.34%) JSON
9 4 (0.34%) React
9 4 (0.34%) Spring
10 3 (0.25%) GraphQL
11 2 (0.17%) libvirt
11 2 (0.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.60%) Linux Command Line
2 61 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 55 (4.66%) Robotics
4 54 (4.58%) Blockchain
5 45 (3.82%) Driving Licence
6 24 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (1.87%) Public Cloud
8 21 (1.78%) IoT
9 18 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 18 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
10 15 (1.27%) CCTV
11 13 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (0.85%) PACS
13 9 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (0.76%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.68%) PMI
14 8 (0.68%) Social Network
15 7 (0.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 177 (15.01%) Windows
2 128 (10.86%) Linux
3 44 (3.73%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 12 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.93%) Android
8 9 (0.76%) Unix
9 5 (0.42%) Mac OS X
9 5 (0.42%) 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 (0.085%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.085%) Solaris
12 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (26.29%) Systems Engineering
2 234 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
3 158 (13.40%) Architectural Design
4 152 (12.89%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 142 (12.04%) Customer Service
6 139 (11.79%) Mentoring
7 129 (10.94%) Coaching
8 118 (10.01%) DevOps
9 116 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
10 107 (9.08%) Project Planning
11 103 (8.74%) Analytics
12 102 (8.65%) Agile
13 98 (8.31%) Artificial Intelligence
14 90 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
15 79 (6.70%) Programme Management
16 76 (6.45%) Project Management
16 76 (6.45%) Test Automation
17 75 (6.36%) Digital Marketing
18 70 (5.94%) Project Delivery
19 66 (5.60%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 167 (14.16%) Python
2 82 (6.96%) Bash
3 80 (6.79%) PowerShell
4 71 (6.02%) JavaScript
5 42 (3.56%) SQL
6 40 (3.39%) R
7 23 (1.95%) C
7 23 (1.95%) Java
8 17 (1.44%) C++
9 15 (1.27%) Perl
10 11 (0.93%) C#
10 11 (0.93%) PHP
11 9 (0.76%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.51%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.34%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.25%) Assembly Language
15 2 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.17%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.085%) CodeQL
Qualifications
1 541 (45.89%) Degree
2 89 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 69 (5.85%) Security Cleared
4 46 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
5 33 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 32 (2.71%) CCNP
7 31 (2.63%) SC Cleared
8 26 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.21%) PMI Certification
9 25 (2.12%) CCNA
10 24 (2.04%) CISSP
11 22 (1.87%) CISA
11 22 (1.87%) ISACA
12 18 (1.53%) PMP
13 17 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
13 17 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (1.36%) A+ Certification
15 12 (1.02%) CCIE
16 10 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
17 8 (0.68%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (7.97%) QA
2 45 (3.82%) ITGC
3 24 (2.04%) NCSC
4 23 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.95%) SLA
5 20 (1.70%) GDPR
6 13 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.68%) NIST
9 7 (0.59%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.59%) MIL-STD-1553
10 6 (0.51%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.34%) PMO
12 3 (0.25%) NEBOSH
13 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 14001
13 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.70%) Docker
3 7 (0.59%) vSphere
4 5 (0.42%) Firmware
4 5 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.085%) Corosync
7 1 (0.085%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.085%) KVM
7 1 (0.085%) Xen
Systems Management
1 37 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 32 (2.71%) Terraform
3 28 (2.37%) Ansible
4 9 (0.76%) SCCM
5 7 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (0.34%) Puppet
7 3 (0.25%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 2 (0.17%) EnCase
8 2 (0.17%) FTK
8 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.17%) Nmap
8 2 (0.17%) RSA Security Analytics
9 1 (0.085%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.085%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.085%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.085%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.085%) Grafana
9 1 (0.085%) Icinga
9 1 (0.085%) Netcool
9 1 (0.085%) WSUS
Vendors
1 164 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 114 (9.67%) SAP
3 52 (4.41%) Cisco
4 34 (2.88%) Oracle
5 25 (2.12%) Google
6 19 (1.61%) VMware
7 14 (1.19%) BT
8 13 (1.10%) Apple
9 12 (1.02%) CheckPoint
9 12 (1.02%) F5
10 11 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 11 (0.93%) HP
11 10 (0.85%) IBM
12 9 (0.76%) Databricks
12 9 (0.76%) Juniper
13 8 (0.68%) Dell
14 7 (0.59%) Ariba
14 7 (0.59%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.59%) SolarWinds
14 7 (0.59%) Splunk