Telecoms Job Trends 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 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 108 86
Rank change year-on-year +6 -22 -57
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 112 49 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.53% 1.85% 3.02%
As % of the General category 3.66% 2.72% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 63 32 217
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,625 £24,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £27,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - -7.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,688 £55,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £73,750 £64,700
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% 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 general skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,058 1,801 4,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 41.73% 67.83% 54.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,750 1,081 3,372
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,568 £62,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,770
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.98%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in the South West

Telecoms
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Telecoms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the South West over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

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 18 April 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
Bristol +15 41 £60,000 -11.11% 14
Gloucestershire -4 27 £55,000 +10.00% 9
Wiltshire +5 20 £36,250 -13.17% 3
Devon -18 10 £60,000 +75.18%
Dorset - 10 £38,750 - 10
Cornwall -16 2 £41,000 +46.43% 9
Somerset -36 1 £90,000 +100.00% 8
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.89%) Apache
2 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.89%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.89%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Primavera
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.61%) AWS
2 11 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.46%) Azure
4 3 (2.68%) GCP
4 3 (2.68%) SaaS
5 2 (1.79%) Canva
5 2 (1.79%) Google Analytics
5 2 (1.79%) Google Sheets
5 2 (1.79%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.89%) OCI
6 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.04%) Firewall
1 9 (8.04%) Unified Communications
1 9 (8.04%) VLAN
2 8 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (7.14%) LAN
2 8 (7.14%) WAN
2 8 (7.14%) WebEx
3 7 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (4.46%) Structured Cabling
5 4 (3.57%) Broadband
6 3 (2.68%) DHCP
6 3 (2.68%) DNS
6 3 (2.68%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.79%) ATM
7 2 (1.79%) BGP
7 2 (1.79%) MPLS
7 2 (1.79%) SMS
7 2 (1.79%) VoIP
7 2 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.79%) Power BI
2 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Git
2 3 (2.68%) Burp Suite
2 3 (2.68%) Metasploit
3 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.89%) GitLab
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
General
1 49 (43.75%) Finance
2 43 (38.39%) Marketing
3 40 (35.71%) Public Sector
4 37 (33.04%) Social Skills
5 35 (31.25%) Manufacturing
6 33 (29.46%) Electronics
7 10 (8.93%) Retail
8 8 (7.14%) Banking
9 6 (5.36%) Aerospace
9 6 (5.36%) Military
10 5 (4.46%) Legal
11 4 (3.57%) Back Office
11 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (3.57%) Law
12 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.89%) Automotive
13 1 (0.89%) Avionics
13 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.29%) Consultant
1 16 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (8.04%) Senior
3 8 (7.14%) Sales Executive
4 7 (6.25%) Customer Executive
4 7 (6.25%) Lead
5 6 (5.36%) IT Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Business Development Executive
6 5 (4.46%) Cabling Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) Category Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Collaboration Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) Data Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) Design Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) IT Support
6 5 (4.46%) Network Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.57%) Account Manager
7 4 (3.57%) Business Manager
7 4 (3.57%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) SAP CAF
2 8 (7.14%) XMPP
3 2 (1.79%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.79%) CSS
3 2 (1.79%) Flask
3 2 (1.79%) HTML
3 2 (1.79%) Jinja
3 2 (1.79%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.79%) RESTful
3 2 (1.79%) YANG
4 1 (0.89%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (0.89%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.89%) NumPy
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle ADF
4 1 (0.89%) Pandas
4 1 (0.89%) PySpark
4 1 (0.89%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.89%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.89%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.89%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 11 (9.82%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.14%) FlexPod
3 8 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (6.25%) Driving Licence
5 6 (5.36%) Fibre Optics
6 5 (4.46%) Replication
7 4 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.68%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.68%) Social Media
9 2 (1.79%) CCTV
9 2 (1.79%) CMDB
9 2 (1.79%) EPoS
10 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.89%) Derivative
10 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.89%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Linux
1 12 (10.71%) Windows
2 5 (4.46%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.89%) Debian
3 1 (0.89%) OpenWrt
3 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (36.61%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
3 31 (27.68%) Programme Management
4 30 (26.79%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (16.07%) Risk Management
6 17 (15.18%) Collaborative Culture
7 13 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (11.61%) ISMS
8 11 (9.82%) Business Development
9 10 (8.93%) Data Management
9 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (8.04%) Agile
10 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (8.04%) Performance Management
11 8 (7.14%) AI
11 8 (7.14%) Project Management
12 7 (6.25%) Contract Negotiation
13 5 (4.46%) Infrastructure Automation
13 5 (4.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.75%) Python
2 6 (5.36%) Bash
3 4 (3.57%) C#
4 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.68%) SQL
5 2 (1.79%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.89%) Bicep
6 1 (0.89%) C++
6 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 39 (34.82%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 13 (11.61%) CISM
4 13 (11.61%) CISSP
4 13 (11.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 9 (8.04%) Degree
6 3 (2.68%) CREST Certified
7 2 (1.79%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.79%) HND
7 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.89%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (11.61%) GRC
2 13 (11.61%) NIST
3 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.79%) GDPR
3 2 (1.79%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 5 (4.46%) Virtual Servers
2 5 (4.46%) vSphere
3 4 (3.57%) Docker
4 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.89%) Firmware
4 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.89%) iptables
Systems Management
1 12 (10.71%) Ansible
2 8 (7.14%) Cisco CUCM
2 8 (7.14%) Grafana
3 7 (6.25%) Terraform
4 3 (2.68%) Nmap
5 2 (1.79%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.89%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (26.79%) SAP
2 14 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.71%) Cisco
4 9 (8.04%) Fortinet
5 8 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 8 (7.14%) Splunk
6 6 (5.36%) VMware
7 5 (4.46%) NetApp
8 2 (1.79%) Google
9 1 (0.89%) BT
9 1 (0.89%) Dell
9 1 (0.89%) EMC
9 1 (0.89%) Facebook
9 1 (0.89%) HP
9 1 (0.89%) Juniper
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle
9 1 (0.89%) Palantir
9 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.89%) Veeam