Telecoms Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Telecommunications
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 64 50
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +15
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 15 13 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.86% 1.91% 1.51%
As % of the General category 3.72% 2.82% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile - £26,450 -
25th Percentile £31,750 £30,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +50.00% -49.07%
75th Percentile £58,750 £41,875 £32,610
90th Percentile £65,000 £43,750 £55,440
North East median annual salary £42,500 £34,000 £25,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +36.00% -31.51%

All General Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 403 461 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 50.00% 67.69% 59.25%
Number of salaries quoted 290 182 273
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £29,800
25th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £45,000 £48,291
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -6.81% -8.02%
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £86,125 £75,000
North East median annual salary £41,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.00% +5.26% -3.23%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Telecoms
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Telecoms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in Tyne and Wear

Telecoms
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +18 15 £45,000 +20.00% 10
Telecoms
North East

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) GitHub
1 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 6 (40.00%) PSTN
2 6 (40.00%) VoIP
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) HTTP
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Support Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) Account Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms Account Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms Manager
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Business Sales Executive
4 1 (6.67%) Field Sales Executive
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Procurement
4 1 (6.67%) New Business Sales Executive
4 1 (6.67%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
1 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Business Development
4 2 (13.33%) ChatOps
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Observability
4 2 (13.33%) People Management
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Static Code Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Bash
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) CCNP
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
1 6 (40.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Grafana
1 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco