Telecoms Job Trends in Scotland

Telecommunications
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 80 135
Rank change year-on-year +12 +55 -112
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 80 67 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.11% 2.69% 1.60%
As % of the General category 4.45% 3.78% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 46 38 19
10th Percentile £28,625 £24,000 £28,600
25th Percentile £29,750 - £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £26,929 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -46.14% +100.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £37,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £67,500 £51,125 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,798 1,774 2,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.34% 71.30% 64.68%
Number of salaries quoted 827 694 1,056
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,500 £30,375
25th Percentile £30,625 £31,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £32,951 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.57% -34.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £74,113 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Scotland

Telecoms
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Telecoms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in Scotland over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in Scotland

Telecoms
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Glasgow +23 33 £42,500 +18.06% 24
West Lothian +6 11 - -
Highlands +7 10 £65,000 - 2
Edinburgh -5 7 - - 24
Ayrshire - 6 £30,000 - 1
Aberdeen - 4 - -
Dundee -13 3 £32,500 -35.00% 2
North Lanarkshire - 3 - - 1
Lanarkshire +7 1 £29,500 -52.80% 23
West Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (11.25%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (16.25%) Entra ID
3 3 (3.75%) Azure
3 3 (3.75%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.50%) Broadband
1 14 (17.50%) Firewall
1 14 (17.50%) VoIP
1 14 (17.50%) VPN
2 13 (16.25%) MPLS
3 11 (13.75%) LAN
3 11 (13.75%) WAN
4 5 (6.25%) VLAN
4 5 (6.25%) Wireless
5 3 (3.75%) DHCP
5 3 (3.75%) DNS
5 3 (3.75%) Internet
5 3 (3.75%) PBX
5 3 (3.75%) SDH
5 3 (3.75%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.25%) BGP
6 1 (1.25%) OSPF
6 1 (1.25%) SNMP
6 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) GIS
1 1 (1.25%) InfluxDB
General
1 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Finance
3 7 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.25%) Retail
5 4 (5.00%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.50%) Electronics
6 2 (2.50%) Wearables
7 1 (1.25%) Games
7 1 (1.25%) Law
7 1 (1.25%) Local Government
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 10 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
1 10 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 10 (12.50%) 2nd Line Technical Support
1 10 (12.50%) 2nd Line Technical Support Engineer
1 10 (12.50%) Support Engineer
1 10 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
1 10 (12.50%) Technical Support
1 10 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
2 9 (11.25%) AutoCAD Designer
2 9 (11.25%) CAD Designer
2 9 (11.25%) Designer
2 9 (11.25%) Telecoms Designer
3 8 (10.00%) Business Development Manager
3 8 (10.00%) Business Manager
3 8 (10.00%) Development Manager
4 7 (8.75%) Design Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Lead
4 7 (8.75%) Trainee
5 5 (6.25%) Customer Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.25%) gRPC
1 1 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Driving Licence
2 6 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.75%) Social Media
5 2 (2.50%) IoT
5 2 (2.50%) Smart Energy
6 1 (1.25%) CCTV
6 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Windows
1 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) B2B
1 19 (23.75%) Business Development
2 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (16.25%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 11 (13.75%) Lead Generation
4 11 (13.75%) Project Delivery
4 11 (13.75%) Telesales
5 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
6 8 (10.00%) Customer Experience
6 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (8.75%) Coaching
7 7 (8.75%) CRM
7 7 (8.75%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (8.75%) Customer Service
7 7 (8.75%) Mentoring
8 6 (7.50%) Validation
8 6 (7.50%) Verification and Validation
9 5 (6.25%) Data Protection
10 4 (5.00%) Telematics
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
2 1 (1.25%) Bash
2 1 (1.25%) Python
2 1 (1.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Degree
2 5 (6.25%) CCNA
2 5 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.75%) MCSA
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.25%) CCNP
5 1 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) NCSC
1 4 (5.00%) NIST
1 4 (5.00%) NIST 800
2 3 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.25%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.00%) Firmware
3 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.25%) Grafana
2 1 (1.25%) Nagios
2 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 10 (12.50%) Meraki
3 5 (6.25%) BT
4 4 (5.00%) Cisco
5 3 (3.75%) HP
5 3 (3.75%) IBM
5 3 (3.75%) VMware
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds