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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 96 30
Rank change year-on-year -33 -66 +32
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 51 258 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.46% 2.80% 7.87%
As % of the General category 2.38% 5.18% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 35 211 140
10th Percentile £26,625 £24,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,000 £34,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £40,000 £43,625
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% -8.31% -3.06%
75th Percentile £60,625 £55,000 £58,844
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -18.18% -

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 2,142 4,982 4,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 61.46% 54.03% 63.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 3,385 2,430
10th Percentile £25,313 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,918 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.86% +0.42%

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 1 May 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 1 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
Cornwall 0 14 £28,000 -28.21% 2
Bristol 0 10 £67,500 +16.38% 20
Gloucestershire +13 9 £50,000 +25.00% 21
Somerset -1 7 £45,000 -5.26% 7
Devon +14 6 £27,250 +51.39% 14
Wiltshire +33 3 £41,750 -1.76% 12
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 (1.96%) Joomla!
1 1 (1.96%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.92%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.65%) AWS
2 5 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (9.80%) Serverless
3 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.96%) Azure
4 1 (1.96%) Canva
4 1 (1.96%) Figma
4 1 (1.96%) GCP
4 1 (1.96%) OCI
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) Internet
2 4 (7.84%) Broadband
2 4 (7.84%) IPv4
2 4 (7.84%) VPN
3 3 (5.88%) Firewall
3 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.92%) OSPF
4 2 (3.92%) Unified Communications
4 2 (3.92%) VLAN
4 2 (3.92%) VoIP
5 1 (1.96%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.96%) MPLS
5 1 (1.96%) Network Security
5 1 (1.96%) PBX
5 1 (1.96%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.96%) MySQL
3 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.96%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Burp Suite
1 2 (3.92%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.96%) CMake
2 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.96%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.96%) Subversion
2 1 (1.96%) WiX
General
1 22 (43.14%) Finance
2 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 14 (27.45%) Electronics
3 14 (27.45%) Public Sector
4 13 (25.49%) Manufacturing
4 13 (25.49%) Marketing
5 4 (7.84%) Retail
6 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.96%) Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.96%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (19.61%) Support Engineer
1 10 (19.61%) Technical Engineer
1 10 (19.61%) Technical Support
1 10 (19.61%) Technical Support Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Senior
3 4 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) Developer
3 4 (7.84%) Lead
4 3 (5.88%) Analyst
4 3 (5.88%) Sales Executive
4 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Business Manager
5 2 (3.92%) Field Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (3.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Senior Penetration Tester
5 2 (3.92%) Service Analyst
5 2 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (3.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) Node.js
2 3 (5.88%) HTML
3 2 (3.92%) CSS
3 2 (3.92%) RESTful
3 2 (3.92%) Spring
3 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.96%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.96%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.96%) CSS3
4 1 (1.96%) DOM
4 1 (1.96%) HTML5
4 1 (1.96%) jQuery
4 1 (1.96%) Kendo UI
4 1 (1.96%) Qt
4 1 (1.96%) React
4 1 (1.96%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (1.96%) Vue
4 1 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Social Network
2 5 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.84%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.88%) Handset
5 2 (3.92%) CCTV
5 2 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.92%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.92%) Social Media
6 1 (1.96%) Blog
6 1 (1.96%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.96%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.96%) EPoS
6 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.96%) PMI
6 1 (1.96%) Podcast
6 1 (1.96%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.69%) Windows
2 7 (13.73%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Customer Service
2 18 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (25.49%) Digital Marketing
4 12 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (23.53%) Programme Management
5 9 (17.65%) DevOps
6 8 (15.69%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (11.76%) DevSecOps
9 5 (9.80%) Agile
9 5 (9.80%) Configuration Management
10 4 (7.84%) Computer Science
10 4 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.84%) Cost Reduction
10 4 (7.84%) Mentoring
10 4 (7.84%) Project Management
10 4 (7.84%) Re-Platforming
10 4 (7.84%) Statistics
10 4 (7.84%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) Python
2 8 (15.69%) Bash
3 5 (9.80%) Java
3 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.84%) R
5 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.92%) C#
6 2 (3.92%) PHP
6 2 (3.92%) SQL
6 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.96%) C
7 1 (1.96%) C++
7 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.96%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.73%) CCNA
3 7 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (13.73%) DV Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) Degree
4 6 (11.76%) JNCIA
5 5 (9.80%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.92%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.92%) CREST Certified
6 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.96%) MCP
7 1 (1.96%) MCSE
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.92%) QA
1 2 (3.92%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Ansible
2 4 (7.84%) Puppet
3 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.92%) Nmap
3 2 (3.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) SAP
2 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.76%) Cisco
3 6 (11.76%) Juniper
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe
4 1 (1.96%) Avaya
4 1 (1.96%) Facebook
4 1 (1.96%) Instagram
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle
4 1 (1.96%) Xero