Telecoms Jobs in the South West

Telecommunications
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 95 36
Rank change year-on-year -21 -59 +23
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 64 269 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.80% 2.51% 7.35%
As % of the General category 2.79% 4.96% 11.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46 217 118
10th Percentile £26,438 £24,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £27,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,188 £55,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £75,375
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - -21.05% +3.64%

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,297 5,425 3,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 64.69% 50.60% 61.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,300 3,593 2,279
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £34,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.45% +4.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the South West over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
Bristol +7 17 £67,500 +16.38% 83
Cornwall -3 14 £28,000 -28.21% 12
Wiltshire +45 13 £28,250 -33.53% 48
Gloucestershire -5 6 £60,000 +50.00% 69
Devon +22 5 £27,250 +51.39% 46
Somerset +15 5 £56,250 +30.81% 53
Dorset +15 3 £26,000 -32.90% 36
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (1.56%) Joomla!
1 1 (1.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (23.44%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.56%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.56%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.63%) AWS
2 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (7.81%) Serverless
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.13%) Azure
5 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.56%) Figma
5 1 (1.56%) GCP
5 1 (1.56%) OCI
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) Internet
2 7 (10.94%) Firewall
3 4 (6.25%) IPv4
3 4 (6.25%) VPN
4 3 (4.69%) Broadband
4 3 (4.69%) LAN
4 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.69%) Wireless
5 2 (3.13%) OSPF
5 2 (3.13%) VLAN
6 1 (1.56%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.56%) MPLS
6 1 (1.56%) Network Security
6 1 (1.56%) PBX
6 1 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.56%) VoIP
6 1 (1.56%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.56%) Big Data
3 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.56%) MySQL
3 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Burp Suite
1 2 (3.13%) Git
1 2 (3.13%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.56%) CMake
2 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.56%) Subversion
2 1 (1.56%) WiX
General
1 33 (51.56%) Finance
2 22 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 21 (32.81%) Manufacturing
4 20 (31.25%) Electronics
4 20 (31.25%) Marketing
4 20 (31.25%) Public Sector
5 10 (15.63%) Law
5 10 (15.63%) Military
6 4 (6.25%) Back Office
7 3 (4.69%) Retail
8 2 (3.13%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Banking
9 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (17.19%) Project Manager
1 11 (17.19%) Support Engineer
2 10 (15.63%) Technical Engineer
2 10 (15.63%) Technical Support
2 10 (15.63%) Technical Support Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Lead
4 6 (9.38%) Assistant Project Manager
5 5 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior
6 4 (6.25%) Developer
6 4 (6.25%) IT Support
7 3 (4.69%) 1st Line Support
7 3 (4.69%) Commercial Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Procurement Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Sales Executive
7 3 (4.69%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Penetration Tester
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Tester
8 2 (3.13%) Service Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) Node.js
2 3 (4.69%) HTML
3 2 (3.13%) CSS
3 2 (3.13%) Spring
3 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.56%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.56%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.56%) CSS3
4 1 (1.56%) DOM
4 1 (1.56%) HTML5
4 1 (1.56%) jQuery
4 1 (1.56%) Kendo UI
4 1 (1.56%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.56%) Qt
4 1 (1.56%) React
4 1 (1.56%) RESTful
4 1 (1.56%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Social Network
2 5 (7.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) Handset
5 2 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.56%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.56%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.56%) EPoS
6 1 (1.56%) IoT
6 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.56%) PMI
6 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.06%) Linux
1 9 (14.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
1 20 (31.25%) Digital Marketing
1 20 (31.25%) Programme Management
2 19 (29.69%) Customer Service
3 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (15.63%) DevOps
5 9 (14.06%) Project Management
6 8 (12.50%) Agile
6 8 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (9.38%) DevSecOps
8 6 (9.38%) Kanban
8 6 (9.38%) Scrum
9 5 (7.81%) Coaching
9 5 (7.81%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.81%) Configuration Management
9 5 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (6.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) Python
2 9 (14.06%) Bash
3 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.81%) Java
5 4 (6.25%) R
6 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.13%) C
7 2 (3.13%) C#
7 2 (3.13%) C++
7 2 (3.13%) PHP
7 2 (3.13%) SQL
7 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (32.81%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.88%) Degree
3 11 (17.19%) DV Cleared
3 11 (17.19%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) CCNA
4 7 (10.94%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.38%) JNCIA
6 5 (7.81%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.13%) CHECK Team Member
7 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.13%) CREST Certified
7 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.56%) CCNP
8 1 (1.56%) CISSP
8 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.13%) QA
1 2 (3.13%) SLA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (9.38%) Ansible
2 4 (6.25%) Puppet
3 3 (4.69%) Terraform
4 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.13%) Nmap
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (32.81%) SAP
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.94%) Cisco
4 6 (9.38%) Juniper
5 1 (1.56%) Adobe
5 1 (1.56%) Avaya
5 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.56%) HP
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) Xero