Communications Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Communications Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Communications Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £53,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 558 567
Rank change year-on-year +54 +9 +168
Permanent jobs requiring a Communications Engineer 5 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.022% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.024% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £35,125 - £26,150
25th Percentile £40,938 £28,500 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £32,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +67.97% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,438 £35,500 £51,625
90th Percentile £75,375 £40,225 £56,650
UK median annual salary £46,250 £32,000 £42,750
% change year-on-year +44.53% -25.15% +1.79%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,388 33,377 32,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,454 16,215 24,936
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Communications Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Communications Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Communications Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Communications Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Communications Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Communications Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Communications Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Communications Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Communications Engineer in the UK excluding London

Communications Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Communications Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
East of England +25 4 £75,000 +134.38%
Midlands +22 1 £32,500 -36.59% 3
East Midlands - 1 £32,500 - 2
Communications Engineer
UK

Communications Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Communications Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Communications Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Network Planning
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Draytek
2 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Presales
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (20.00%) Yealink

Communications Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (60.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (20.00%) GNSS
1 1 (20.00%) Handset
1 1 (20.00%) Verilog
1 1 (20.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Network Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (20.00%) Presales
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Draytek
1 1 (20.00%) Meraki
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Yealink