Signaling System No. 7 (SS7)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SS7 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SS7 over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 913 948 1217
Rank change year-on-year +35 +269 -324
Permanent jobs citing SS7 1 16 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.001% 0.015% 0.011%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.007% 0.10% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 17
10th Percentile - £48,750 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,375 £73,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £105,000 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% +36.36% +59.59%
75th Percentile £52,500 £110,000 £80,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £42,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -46.88% +81.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SS7 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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,580 15,992 20,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.78% 15.46% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,473 8,159 11,855
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.17% +2.22%

SS7
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SS7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SS7 in the UK

SS7
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SS7.

Salary trend for SS7 in the UK

SS7
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SS7 within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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
London +114 1 £50,000 -54.55%
England +88 1 £50,000 -52.38% 2

SS7
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 1 (100.00%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) SIGTRAN
1 1 (100.00%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle