Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Network (G-PON)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GPON skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GPON over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 695 898 967
Rank change year-on-year +203 +69 +253
Permanent jobs citing GPON 7 9 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.009% 0.001%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.069% 0.066% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 1
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,925 -
25th Percentile £44,375 £42,188 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 -
90th Percentile £67,250 £54,125 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +15.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

GPON 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,094 13,581 15,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.08% 13.10% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,436 9,413 7,713
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,625 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%

GPON
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GPON in the UK

GPON
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GPON.

Salary trend for GPON in the UK

GPON
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GPON over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GPON in the UK

GPON
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GPON within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +169 7 £52,500 +10.53% 10
UK excluding London +184 6 £52,500 +5.00% 10
South East - 6 £52,500 - 7
Work from Home +121 2 £46,250 -7.50% 2

GPON
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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) MPLS
2 4 (57.14%) IPv4
2 4 (57.14%) IPv6
3 3 (42.86%) Broadband
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 3 (42.86%) DNS
3 3 (42.86%) DWDM
3 3 (42.86%) Ethernet
3 3 (42.86%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) VXLAN
4 2 (28.57%) BGP
4 2 (28.57%) OSPF
4 2 (28.57%) WAN
5 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) NOC Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) Driving Licence
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Security Patching
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) JNCIS
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) JNCIA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Juniper
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Nokia
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk