SDH Jobs in the UK excluding London

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SDH skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SDH over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 744 744 816
Rank change year-on-year 0 +72 -152
Permanent jobs citing SDH 11 7 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.011% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.11% 0.063% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 6
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,150 £33,000
25th Percentile - £42,625 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £53,500 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +46.58% -39.17%
75th Percentile £50,000 £62,625 £37,438
90th Percentile - £67,050 £39,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £80,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -50.00% +88.24% -29.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

SDH is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,796 11,025 10,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.97% 17.83% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,129 4,890 6,483
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,576 £32,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

SDH
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SDH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SDH in the UK excluding London

SDH
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDH in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SDH in the UK excluding London

SDH
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDH in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SDH in the UK excluding London

SDH
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 SDH within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
South West -15 9 £40,000 +8.11% 2
South East +26 1 £50,000 -28.57% 1
Scotland - 1 £32,500 -
SDH
UK

SDH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) MPLS
2 5 (45.45%) Ethernet
3 4 (36.36%) DWDM
3 4 (36.36%) GPON
3 4 (36.36%) Wireless
4 3 (27.27%) SNMP
5 2 (18.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 8 (72.73%) Telecoms
2 6 (54.55%) Military
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Technical Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) Support Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) Technical Support
2 8 (72.73%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Graduate
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SCADA Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
1 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
2 2 (18.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Network Management
2 1 (9.09%) Active Listening
2 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
2 1 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (9.09%) Decarbonisation
2 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
2 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
2 1 (9.09%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL
2 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
2 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
2 1 (9.09%) Project Management
2 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) HNC
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft