Structured Cabling Jobs

Structured Cabling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Structured Cabling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Structured Cabling over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 757 936
Rank change year-on-year +116 +179 +207
Permanent jobs citing Structured Cabling 51 139 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.14% 0.051%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.73% 1.02% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 36 108 37
10th Percentile £26,375 £27,050 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £28,000 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £31,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.92% +1.61% -18.42%
75th Percentile £47,500 £43,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £59,750 £79,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £31,000 £29,000
% change year-on-year +20.97% +6.90% -4.92%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Structured Cabling 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 6,964 13,635 16,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.38% 13.84% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,270 9,518 8,181
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,063 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% -

Structured Cabling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Structured Cabling in the UK

Structured Cabling
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Structured Cabling.

Salary trend for Structured Cabling in the UK

Structured Cabling
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Structured Cabling over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Structured Cabling in the UK

Structured Cabling
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Structured Cabling within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +107 50 £42,500 +30.77% 91
London +104 32 £45,000 +20.00% 30
UK excluding London +145 18 £37,500 +20.97% 75
North of England +78 6 £48,750 +57.26% 11
North West +28 6 £48,750 +57.26% 8
Midlands +80 4 £37,500 +25.00% 11
East of England +52 4 £28,985 -42.03% 9
South West +96 2 £37,750 +24.24% 9
South East +73 2 £34,750 +15.83% 25

Structured Cabling
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 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (15.69%) MS Visio
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (35.29%) Entra ID
3 9 (17.65%) AWS
4 8 (15.69%) Azure
4 8 (15.69%) IaaS
4 8 (15.69%) PaaS
4 8 (15.69%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (35.29%) PBX
2 17 (33.33%) SAN
3 15 (29.41%) Cisco IOS
3 15 (29.41%) DHCP
3 15 (29.41%) DNS
3 15 (29.41%) FTP
3 15 (29.41%) IPv4
3 15 (29.41%) SMTP
3 15 (29.41%) VLAN
4 4 (7.84%) NAS
5 3 (5.88%) Broadband
6 2 (3.92%) Ethernet
6 2 (3.92%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.92%) LAN
6 2 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.96%) Network Security
7 1 (1.96%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.96%) Wireless
7 1 (1.96%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
1 1 (1.96%) GitLab
General
1 27 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 18 (35.29%) Finance
3 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (37.25%) Desktop Support
2 10 (19.61%) Desktop Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) IT Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) IT Support
2 10 (19.61%) IT Support Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Support Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Consultant
3 9 (17.65%) Desktop Manager
3 9 (17.65%) Desktop Support Manager
3 9 (17.65%) Support Manager
4 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 8 (15.69%) Senior
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Consultant
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
5 5 (9.80%) Data Centre Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Cabling Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Business Development Manager
7 3 (5.88%) Business Manager
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Data Centre
2 10 (19.61%) Private Cloud
2 10 (19.61%) Public Cloud
3 5 (9.80%) CCTV
3 5 (9.80%) Driving Licence
4 3 (5.88%) BYOD
4 3 (5.88%) EPoS
4 3 (5.88%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (52.94%) Windows
2 18 (35.29%) Windows 10
3 15 (29.41%) Android
4 11 (21.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.96%) Linux
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.61%) People Management
2 8 (15.69%) Commercial Awareness
3 7 (13.73%) Change Control
3 7 (13.73%) Incident Management
3 7 (13.73%) ITIL
4 6 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 4 (7.84%) Contract Negotiation
5 4 (7.84%) Data Centre Operations
5 4 (7.84%) ITSM
6 3 (5.88%) Business Development
6 3 (5.88%) CRM
6 3 (5.88%) Market Research
6 3 (5.88%) Mathematics
7 2 (3.92%) Agile
7 2 (3.92%) Asset Management
7 2 (3.92%) Bill of Materials
7 2 (3.92%) Break/Fix
7 2 (3.92%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (3.92%) Service Delivery
7 2 (3.92%) Vendor Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) Python
2 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.96%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Degree
2 15 (29.41%) CCNA
2 15 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (29.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (29.41%) Network+ Certification
3 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) BICSI RCDD
6 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.96%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.65%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 15 (29.41%) Hyper-V
2 15 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (15.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (29.41%) SCCM
1 15 (29.41%) WSUS
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.96%) Ansible
3 1 (1.96%) Argo
3 1 (1.96%) Grafana
3 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.96%) Packer
3 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 16 (31.37%) Cisco
3 15 (29.41%) Citrix
3 15 (29.41%) Veeam
4 8 (15.69%) VMware
5 1 (1.96%) Aruba
5 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.96%) HP
5 1 (1.96%) Juniper
5 1 (1.96%) Meraki
5 1 (1.96%) Ruckus Wireless