Telecoms Job Trends 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 19 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 185 182
Rank change year-on-year +92 -3 -151
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 354 138 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.69% 1.46% 1.29%
As % of the General category 3.95% 2.12% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 301 107 167
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £22,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £28,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -15.79%
75th Percentile £60,000 £45,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £43,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.44% -21.74%

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 general skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 8,961 6,521 9,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 42.74% 69.22% 54.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,970 2,883 6,572
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £69,390 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in the North of England

Telecoms
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

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 19 July 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
North West +89 238 £40,000 -11.11% 52
Yorkshire +6 90 £53,750 +82.20% 25
North East -27 26 £47,500 +66.67% 7
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (5.37%) SAP PM
2 4 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (6.78%) Power Platform
2 21 (5.93%) Azure
3 20 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.24%) AWS
4 15 (4.24%) GCP
5 12 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.39%) GitHub
5 12 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (1.69%) SaaS
7 3 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (0.85%) dbt
7 3 (0.85%) Google Workspace
7 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (0.85%) OneDrive
7 3 (0.85%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.56%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.28%) Collibra
9 1 (0.28%) Datadog
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.60%) Broadband
2 23 (6.50%) VoIP
3 19 (5.37%) Unified Communications
4 16 (4.52%) Firewall
5 15 (4.24%) DNS
5 15 (4.24%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.39%) HTTP
7 11 (3.11%) Internet
7 11 (3.11%) Wireless
8 10 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (1.98%) LAN
9 7 (1.98%) Network Security
10 5 (1.41%) Structured Cabling
10 5 (1.41%) VLAN
11 4 (1.13%) PBX
12 3 (0.85%) 4G
12 3 (0.85%) 5G
12 3 (0.85%) DKIM
12 3 (0.85%) DMARC
12 3 (0.85%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.19%) Tableau
2 24 (6.78%) Power BI
3 3 (0.85%) BigQuery
3 3 (0.85%) Data Vault
3 3 (0.85%) Metadata
3 3 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.28%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.28%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (3.39%) Jenkins
General
1 99 (27.97%) Law
2 98 (27.68%) Social Skills
3 91 (25.71%) Military
4 79 (22.32%) Finance
5 47 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (11.58%) Back Office
7 15 (4.24%) Legal
8 14 (3.95%) Billing
8 14 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.82%) Marketing
10 8 (2.26%) Advertising
11 7 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.98%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.69%) Retail
13 5 (1.41%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.28%) Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (11.58%) Business Development Manager
1 41 (11.58%) Business Manager
1 41 (11.58%) Development Manager
2 35 (9.89%) Account Manager
3 28 (7.91%) Analyst
4 25 (7.06%) Senior
5 21 (5.93%) Sales Manager
6 20 (5.65%) IT Manager
7 18 (5.08%) Project Manager
8 17 (4.80%) Telecoms Manager
9 15 (4.24%) Administrator
9 15 (4.24%) Finance Manager
9 15 (4.24%) Performance Analyst
9 15 (4.24%) Sales Account Manager
10 14 (3.95%) Consultant
10 14 (3.95%) Performance Manager
11 12 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.39%) Senior Manager
12 11 (3.11%) Network Engineer
13 10 (2.82%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.41%) PySpark
3 2 (0.56%) gRPC
3 2 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.28%) LangChain
4 1 (0.28%) LangGraph
4 1 (0.28%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.89%) Driving Licence
2 20 (5.65%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.82%) CCTV
5 9 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.54%) Fibre Optics
6 6 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.69%) IoT
6 6 (1.69%) SCADA
7 5 (1.41%) Acoustics
7 5 (1.41%) Web Conferencing
8 4 (1.13%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.13%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.85%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Licensing
10 1 (0.28%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.28%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.28%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.98%) Windows
2 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.56%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (20.90%) Business Development
2 50 (14.12%) B2B
3 46 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (10.45%) CRM
4 37 (10.45%) Data Governance
5 35 (9.89%) Visualisation
6 34 (9.60%) Data Development
7 32 (9.04%) Customer Service
8 30 (8.47%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 29 (8.19%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (6.21%) Customer Experience
11 21 (5.93%) B2B Sales
12 20 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (5.37%) Commercial Awareness
14 15 (4.24%) CI/CD
14 15 (4.24%) DevOps
14 15 (4.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (4.24%) Performance Improvement
15 14 (3.95%) Decision-Making
15 14 (3.95%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (4.52%) Python
2 13 (3.67%) Bash
3 12 (3.39%) Go
4 5 (1.41%) SQL
5 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 21 (5.93%) ACCA
1 21 (5.93%) CIMA
2 16 (4.52%) SC Cleared
2 16 (4.52%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.11%) Degree
4 8 (2.26%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.41%) CCNP
5 5 (1.41%) Chartered Engineer
5 5 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.41%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.28%) CCA
7 1 (0.28%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.28%) GCFA
7 1 (0.28%) GCIH
7 1 (0.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.26%) QA
2 5 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.13%) GDPR
3 4 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.85%) PMO
5 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.13%) Firmware
2 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
2 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.24%) Terraform
2 14 (3.95%) Grafana
2 14 (3.95%) Prometheus
3 12 (3.39%) Ansible
4 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.85%) cPanel
5 3 (0.85%) Plesk
6 2 (0.56%) Nagios
7 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.37%) SAP
3 8 (2.26%) BT
4 7 (1.98%) Mitel
5 5 (1.41%) Aruba
5 5 (1.41%) Cisco
5 5 (1.41%) Juniper
6 3 (0.85%) Acronis
6 3 (0.85%) Databricks
6 3 (0.85%) Datto
6 3 (0.85%) Google
6 3 (0.85%) NETGEAR
6 3 (0.85%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.85%) SonicWALL
6 3 (0.85%) Veeam
6 3 (0.85%) VMware
6 3 (0.85%) WatchGuard
7 1 (0.28%) Facebook
7 1 (0.28%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds