Cantonese Language Jobs

Cantonese Language
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cantonese Language in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cantonese Language over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 695 890 945
Rank change year-on-year +195 +55 +292
Permanent jobs citing Cantonese Language 16 5 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.005% 0.008%
As % of the General category 0.041% 0.008% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 8
10th Percentile £33,900 - £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £24,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £28,088 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +104.72% -66.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £63,125 £68,750 -
90th Percentile £64,625 £72,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £24,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +129.17% -71.76% -

All General Skills
UK

Cantonese Language falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 38,565 59,832 67,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 70.20% 59.28% 68.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17,777 39,796 36,292
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,433 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

Cantonese Language
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cantonese Language as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cantonese Language in the UK

Cantonese Language
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cantonese Language.

Salary trend for Cantonese Language in the UK

Cantonese Language
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cantonese Language over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cantonese Language in the UK

Cantonese Language
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cantonese Language within the UK over the 6 months to 24 May 2025. 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
England +158 16 £57,500 +104.72% 23
UK excluding London +193 11 £55,000 +129.17% 11
North of England +56 11 £55,000 +129.17% 4
North West +7 10 £55,000 +129.17% 4
Work from Home +126 8 £57,500 -17.86% 5
London +120 1 £57,500 -8.00% 16
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Cantonese Language
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) MySQL
2 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Big Data
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Appium
1 8 (50.00%) Selenium
2 5 (31.25%) JIRA
3 4 (25.00%) Fiddler
3 4 (25.00%) JMeter
3 4 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 4 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 15 (93.75%) Mandarin Language
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (12.50%) Advertising
4 2 (12.50%) Marketing
4 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) QA Tester
1 4 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Tester
2 3 (18.75%) Java Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Junior
3 2 (12.50%) Junior DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Junior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Junior Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (6.25%) React Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Tandem
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 13 (81.25%) Fintech
3 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 6 (37.50%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
6 4 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
6 4 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 4 (25.00%) User Experience
7 3 (18.75%) B2B
7 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
7 3 (18.75%) Microservices
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (12.50%) B2C
8 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Java
2 11 (68.75%) Python
3 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) ActionScript
5 1 (6.25%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Grafana
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Revolut
3 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk