DAB Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DAB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 553 569
Rank change year-on-year +45 +16 +181
Permanent jobs citing DAB 1 13 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.002% 0.036% 0.012%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.013% 0.26% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £51,000 £72,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +56.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,625 £82,500
90th Percentile - £76,750 £84,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +60.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

DAB falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,571 4,931 5,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.85% 13.73% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,822 2,461 4,336
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,694 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £71,250
UK median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -4.76%

DAB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DAB relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

DAB job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DAB
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DAB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DAB

DAB
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 DAB 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
North of England 0 1 £60,000 -14.29%
North West - 1 £60,000 -
DAB
UK

DAB
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks