Telecoms Jobs in the North of England

Telecommunications
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 190 35
Rank change year-on-year +68 -155 +171
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 320 234 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.41% 1.25% 7.40%
As % of the General category 3.73% 2.31% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 109 174 100
10th Percentile £26,000 £22,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £47,586
Median % change year-on-year - -15.94% +0.18%
75th Percentile £47,683 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £76,375
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -21.74% +4.55%

All General Skills
North 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 common skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,569 10,111 9,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 64.50% 53.93% 67.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,864 6,950 4,963
10th Percentile £25,084 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £34,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £51,805
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -8.31% +3.61%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Yorkshire +116 170 £29,500 -37.89% 95
North West -6 147 £45,000 +12.50% 111
North East +21 6 £28,500 +3.64% 31
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 126 (39.38%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 27 (8.44%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (2.19%) Azure
3 6 (1.88%) AWS
4 3 (0.94%) GCP
5 2 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (0.63%) Power Platform
5 2 (0.63%) Serverless
6 1 (0.31%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.31%) OCI
6 1 (0.31%) PaaS
6 1 (0.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 138 (43.13%) Broadband
2 124 (38.75%) Ethernet
2 124 (38.75%) Wi-Fi
3 34 (10.63%) VoIP
4 11 (3.44%) Wireless
5 9 (2.81%) VPN
6 7 (2.19%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.88%) WAN
8 5 (1.56%) Firewall
9 4 (1.25%) DNS
9 4 (1.25%) LAN
10 3 (0.94%) DHCP
10 3 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.94%) VLAN
11 2 (0.63%) MPLS
11 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.63%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.63%) ZigBee
12 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.94%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.63%) Big Data
2 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.63%) Power BI
3 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.31%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.31%) MySQL
3 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Cucumber
1 4 (1.25%) Robot Framework
2 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.63%) Git
4 1 (0.31%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Gradle
4 1 (0.31%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.31%) Maven
General
1 146 (45.63%) Social Skills
2 125 (39.06%) Presentation Skills
3 59 (18.44%) Automotive
4 35 (10.94%) Military
5 32 (10.00%) Law
6 27 (8.44%) Finance
7 11 (3.44%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.19%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.19%) Electronics
9 6 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.88%) Marketing
9 6 (1.88%) Retail
10 5 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.94%) Games
11 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Advertising
12 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.63%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 126 (39.38%) Business Development Manager
1 126 (39.38%) Business Manager
1 126 (39.38%) Development Manager
2 63 (19.69%) Principal Engineer
3 60 (18.75%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 53 (16.56%) Systems Engineer
5 21 (6.56%) Analyst
6 18 (5.63%) IT Analyst
7 16 (5.00%) Senior
8 10 (3.13%) 1st Line Support
8 10 (3.13%) 1st Line Support Analyst
8 10 (3.13%) Electronics Engineer
8 10 (3.13%) IT Support
8 10 (3.13%) IT Support Analyst
8 10 (3.13%) Senior Electronics Engineer
8 10 (3.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 10 (3.13%) Support Analyst
9 9 (2.81%) Support Engineer
10 8 (2.50%) Help Desk Analyst
10 8 (2.50%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.94%) Spring Boot
2 2 (0.63%) FastAPI
2 2 (0.63%) Node.js
2 2 (0.63%) Spring
3 1 (0.31%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.31%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.31%) Kafka
3 1 (0.31%) RESTful
3 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (39.06%) Social Media
2 8 (2.50%) Driving Licence
3 6 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (0.94%) Cloud Native
5 3 (0.94%) IoT
6 2 (0.63%) CCTV
6 2 (0.63%) Smart Energy
6 2 (0.63%) Tandem
6 2 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.31%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.31%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.31%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.31%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.31%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.31%) NHS
7 1 (0.31%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.44%) Windows
2 22 (6.88%) Windows Server
3 18 (5.63%) Windows 10
4 16 (5.00%) Linux
5 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (40.94%) B2B
1 131 (40.94%) Contract Negotiation
2 130 (40.63%) Performance Metrics
3 129 (40.31%) B2B Sales
4 126 (39.38%) Business Development
4 126 (39.38%) Lead Generation
5 125 (39.06%) CRM
6 62 (19.38%) Systems Engineering
7 59 (18.44%) Architectural Design
7 59 (18.44%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 32 (10.00%) Service Delivery
9 26 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (6.25%) Customer Service
11 17 (5.31%) Collaborative Working
12 16 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (3.75%) Customer Requirements
14 10 (3.13%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (3.13%) Situational Awareness
15 9 (2.81%) Commercial Awareness
15 9 (2.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.81%) Python
2 6 (1.88%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.56%) Bash
3 5 (1.56%) Perl
3 5 (1.56%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.25%) MATLAB
4 4 (1.25%) R
5 3 (0.94%) C
5 3 (0.94%) Java
5 3 (0.94%) PHP
5 3 (0.94%) SQL
6 2 (0.63%) Assembly Language
6 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.31%) C#
7 1 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 88 (27.50%) Degree
2 9 (2.81%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.19%) HNC
3 7 (2.19%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.56%) PhD
4 5 (1.56%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.94%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.63%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (0.63%) CIPD
6 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.31%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.31%) CCNA
7 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.31%) MBA
7 1 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.25%) QA
2 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.31%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.31%) NEBOSH
3 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.63%) Firmware
4 1 (0.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.31%) Ansible
3 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 154 (48.13%) Microsoft
2 124 (38.75%) Salesforce
3 5 (1.56%) SAP
4 3 (0.94%) Apple
4 3 (0.94%) BT
4 3 (0.94%) Cisco
4 3 (0.94%) Oracle
4 3 (0.94%) Sage
4 3 (0.94%) SonicWALL
5 2 (0.63%) Avaya
5 2 (0.63%) Google
5 2 (0.63%) PayPal
6 1 (0.31%) Monzo
6 1 (0.31%) Samsung