Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SCTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 720 652 889
Rank change year-on-year -68 +237 -
Permanent jobs citing SCTP 2 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.002% 0.001%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.022% 0.015% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £43,125 - -
25th Percentile £44,063 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 - -
75th Percentile £54,063 - -
90th Percentile £55,375 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SCTP 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 9,123 6,462 12,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.79% 15.13% 12.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,272 3,590 9,395
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,715
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £43,742
% change year-on-year - -2.84% -2.80%

SCTP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SCTP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SCTP job vacancy trend in the UK

SCTP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCTP

SCTP
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCTP within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
England - 2 £48,750 - 2
UK excluding London - 2 £48,750 - 2
Work from Home +5 1 £52,500 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
South West - 1 £45,000 -

SCTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (100.00%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (50.00%) 3GPP
2 1 (50.00%) 4G
2 1 (50.00%) 5G
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) ICMP
2 1 (50.00%) IPv4
2 1 (50.00%) IPv6
2 1 (50.00%) RTP
2 1 (50.00%) RTSP
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (50.00%) SS7
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) VoLTE
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C++ Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C++/C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FFmpeg
1 1 (50.00%) GStreamer
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Unreal Engine
1 1 (50.00%) WebRTC
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CUDA
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA