Telecoms Jobs in the South East

Telecommunications
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies in the South East. 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 95 74 40
Rank change year-on-year -21 -34 +42
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 280 610 907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.94% 3.64% 6.34%
As % of the General category 4.36% 6.41% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 137 347 266
10th Percentile - £23,125 £23,500
25th Percentile £23,731 £26,750 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -11.76% -19.05%
75th Percentile £50,000 £56,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -18.18% -

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,419 9,518 9,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 67.29% 56.75% 63.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,718 6,020 4,385
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £36,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,471 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.47% -12.50% -

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the South East.

Salary trend for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the South East 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
Thames Valley -32 100 £47,500 -4.52% 111
Surrey +13 51 £25,154 -26.02% 41
Hampshire -1 49 £31,500 -3.08% 52
Berkshire -45 46 £55,000 +0.46% 89
Buckinghamshire +33 42 £30,000 -10.45% 13
Middlesex +13 34 - - 2
Kent +6 34 £25,154 -42.83% 6
Oxfordshire +26 12 £70,000 +40.00% 28
West Sussex +12 10 £45,000 +95.65% 14
Isle of Wight - 1 £70,000 -
Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 9
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.71%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 28 (10.00%) Azure
2 25 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (7.14%) AWS
4 18 (6.43%) SaaS
5 14 (5.00%) GCP
6 13 (4.64%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.21%) IBM Watson
7 9 (3.21%) PaaS
8 8 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.79%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.07%) Serverless
11 2 (0.71%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.36%) Dropbox
12 1 (0.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 48 (17.14%) TCP/IP
2 44 (15.71%) 5G
3 43 (15.36%) 4G
4 36 (12.86%) VPN
5 25 (8.93%) VoIP
6 23 (8.21%) Firewall
7 18 (6.43%) DNS
7 18 (6.43%) VLAN
8 10 (3.57%) Broadband
8 10 (3.57%) DHCP
9 9 (3.21%) WAN
10 8 (2.86%) PBX
10 8 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (2.14%) LAN
11 6 (2.14%) MPLS
11 6 (2.14%) Wireless
12 5 (1.79%) NAS
12 5 (1.79%) RTP
12 5 (1.79%) SAN
12 5 (1.79%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.64%) Power BI
2 10 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.21%) QlikView
4 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.36%) Big Data
5 1 (0.36%) GIS
5 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (12.14%) Cucumber
1 34 (12.14%) Robot Framework
2 9 (3.21%) Git
2 9 (3.21%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.14%) JIRA
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 120 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 55 (19.64%) Finance
3 55 (19.64%) Retail
4 26 (9.29%) Law
5 22 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.86%) Marketing
6 18 (6.43%) Public Sector
7 17 (6.07%) Electronics
7 17 (6.07%) Manufacturing
8 16 (5.71%) Legal
9 14 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.86%) Billing
11 8 (2.86%) Spanish Language
12 7 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.79%) Banking
13 5 (1.79%) Military
14 2 (0.71%) Games
14 2 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (13.93%) Analyst
2 34 (12.14%) Test Automation Engineer
2 34 (12.14%) Test Engineer
3 26 (9.29%) Senior
4 22 (7.86%) Support Analyst
5 21 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 17 (6.07%) IT Support
7 13 (4.64%) Technical Support
8 12 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support
9 11 (3.93%) 1st Line Support
10 10 (3.57%) Data Manager
11 9 (3.21%) Analytics Manager
11 9 (3.21%) Audit Manager
11 9 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.21%) Data Analytics Manager
11 9 (3.21%) IT Engineer
11 9 (3.21%) Risk Manager
11 9 (3.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.21%) Technology Risk Manager
12 8 (2.86%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.57%) Node.js
2 4 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (1.07%) Kafka
3 3 (1.07%) REST
3 3 (1.07%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.71%) Middleware
5 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.36%) FreeSWITCH
5 1 (0.36%) jQuery
5 1 (0.36%) JSON
5 1 (0.36%) Web Services
5 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.86%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 13 (4.64%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.57%) Robotics
5 9 (3.21%) Blockchain
5 9 (3.21%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.14%) CCTV
6 6 (2.14%) IoT
7 5 (1.79%) Analogue Electronics
7 5 (1.79%) SCADA
8 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.07%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.07%) NHS
9 3 (1.07%) PACS
10 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.71%) Handset
10 2 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 68 (24.29%) Windows
2 52 (18.57%) Linux
3 8 (2.86%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.14%) Unix
5 3 (1.07%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.71%) Android
6 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.93%) Customer Service
1 81 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (17.86%) Customer Experience
3 48 (17.14%) Mentoring
4 47 (16.79%) DevOps
5 45 (16.07%) Coaching
6 36 (12.86%) System Testing
7 35 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 34 (12.14%) Test Management
9 26 (9.29%) Analytics
10 19 (6.79%) Artificial Intelligence
10 19 (6.79%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (6.43%) B2B
12 17 (6.07%) Programme Management
12 17 (6.07%) Project Delivery
13 16 (5.71%) Agile
13 16 (5.71%) Project Management
14 15 (5.36%) B2B Sales
14 15 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (5.36%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 62 (22.14%) Python
2 40 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 36 (12.86%) Bash
4 35 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.79%) SQL
6 12 (4.29%) R
7 6 (2.14%) Perl
8 5 (1.79%) Java
9 3 (1.07%) C++
10 2 (0.71%) C
10 2 (0.71%) C#
10 2 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.36%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.36%) VBA
11 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 75 (26.79%) Degree
2 13 (4.64%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.14%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.43%) ACCA
7 4 (1.43%) CCNA
7 4 (1.43%) CCNP
7 4 (1.43%) CIMA
8 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.07%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.71%) CCFP
9 2 (0.71%) CISSP
9 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.71%) EnCE
9 2 (0.71%) GCFA
9 2 (0.71%) GCFE
9 2 (0.71%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.86%) QA
2 11 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.86%) SLA
4 5 (1.79%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.43%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.71%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.71%) NEBOSH
6 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) COSHH
System Software
1 22 (7.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.07%) Docker
3 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.93%) Ansible
3 9 (3.21%) Terraform
4 2 (0.71%) EnCase
4 2 (0.71%) FTK
4 2 (0.71%) RSA Security Analytics
5 1 (0.36%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.36%) Netcool
Vendors
1 54 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.36%) SAP
3 10 (3.57%) IBM
4 9 (3.21%) Databricks
5 6 (2.14%) Cisco
5 6 (2.14%) Dell
5 6 (2.14%) Splunk
5 6 (2.14%) VMware
6 5 (1.79%) Google
7 4 (1.43%) BT
8 3 (1.07%) Draytek
8 3 (1.07%) HP
8 3 (1.07%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (1.07%) WatchGuard
9 2 (0.71%) Facebook
9 2 (0.71%) FireEye
9 2 (0.71%) Juniper
9 2 (0.71%) NetWitness
9 2 (0.71%) Nokia
9 2 (0.71%) SolarWinds