Starlink Job Trends

Starlink
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Starlink products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Starlink over the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Starlink Services, LLC.

 6 months to
14 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 632 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Starlink 31 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 30 0 0
10th Percentile £27,000 - -
25th Percentile £30,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 - -
75th Percentile £32,000 - -
90th Percentile £33,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,000 - -

All Vendors
UK

Starlink falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 21,082 25,373 25,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.64% 32.55% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,307 13,790 19,213
10th Percentile £26,875 £31,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +3.09%

Starlink
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Starlink in the UK

Starlink
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Starlink.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Starlink

Starlink
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Starlink within the UK over the 6 months to 14 September 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 - 31 £31,000 -
UK excluding London - 30 £31,000 -
South West - 19 £31,000 -
South East - 11 £31,000 -
London - 1 - -

Starlink
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 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.23%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) AWS
1 1 (3.23%) Azure
1 1 (3.23%) Dagster
1 1 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (80.65%) Firewall
2 24 (77.42%) VSAT
3 1 (3.23%) BGP
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.23%) MQTT
3 1 (3.23%) OSPF
3 1 (3.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (3.23%) RTMP
3 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.23%) VLAN
3 1 (3.23%) VPN
3 1 (3.23%) WAN
3 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.23%) Metadata
1 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.23%) MySQL
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
1 1 (3.23%) Jaeger
1 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.23%) MLflow
1 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (19.35%) Finance
1 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.23%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 30 (96.77%) Support Engineer
1 30 (96.77%) Technical Engineer
1 30 (96.77%) Technical Support
1 30 (96.77%) Technical Support Engineer
2 24 (77.42%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) Network Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) Senior
3 1 (3.23%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
1 1 (3.23%) Kafka
1 1 (3.23%) Keycloak
1 1 (3.23%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.23%) IoT
1 1 (3.23%) MPEG
1 1 (3.23%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (96.77%) Customer Service
2 24 (77.42%) Commercial Awareness
2 24 (77.42%) Kalman Filter
2 24 (77.42%) Mentoring
2 24 (77.42%) Proactive Management
2 24 (77.42%) Web Filtering
3 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Vision
4 1 (3.23%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (3.23%) Decision-Making
4 1 (3.23%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (3.23%) DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Edge AI
4 1 (3.23%) High Availability
4 1 (3.23%) Incident Management
4 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (3.23%) MLOps
4 1 (3.23%) Network Optimisation
4 1 (3.23%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (96.77%) CCNA
1 30 (96.77%) Cisco Certification
1 30 (96.77%) JNCIA
2 24 (77.42%) SC Cleared
2 24 (77.42%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
1 1 (3.23%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Ansible
1 1 (3.23%) Argo
1 1 (3.23%) Grafana
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Cisco
2 6 (19.35%) Juniper
3 1 (3.23%) MikroTik
3 1 (3.23%) NETGEAR
3 1 (3.23%) Sonatype
3 1 (3.23%) Ubiquiti