Structured Cabling Job Trends

Structured Cabling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Structured Cabling skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 614 715 701
Rank change year-on-year +101 -14 +426
Permanent jobs citing Structured Cabling 64 86 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.098%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.89% 0.92% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39 50 59
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -8.54% +7.89%
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £47,750 £73,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £32,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -21.95% +24.24%

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 7,214 9,357 9,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.62% 12.02% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,024 4,900 6,907
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% -5.26%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Structured Cabling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Structured Cabling

Structured Cabling
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Structured Cabling over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Structured Cabling in the UK

Structured Cabling
Top 13 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 17 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 +73 56 £45,000 +20.00% 129
UK excluding London +72 31 £34,000 +6.25% 111
London +73 29 £45,000 -18.18% 35
South West +58 12 £34,000 +6.25% 11
South East +46 6 - - 51
Midlands +51 5 £35,000 - 18
East Midlands - 4 - - 8
Scotland - 4 - - 5
Work from Home +67 2 £47,500 -50.00% 16
North of England +33 2 £35,000 +12.90% 16
North West +11 2 £35,000 +12.90% 9
East of England -8 2 £25,500 -20.31% 12
West Midlands +45 1 £35,000 - 10

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 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.13%) Smartsheet
3 1 (1.56%) AWS
3 1 (1.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (7.81%) PBX
3 4 (6.25%) Broadband
4 2 (3.13%) LAN
4 2 (3.13%) Network Security
4 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.13%) WAN
5 1 (1.56%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
1 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.00%) Legal
3 7 (10.94%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.25%) Billing
5 4 (6.25%) Finance
5 4 (6.25%) Retail
6 2 (3.13%) Law
6 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Desktop Support
2 15 (23.44%) Desktop Manager
2 15 (23.44%) Desktop Support Manager
2 15 (23.44%) Support Manager
3 14 (21.88%) Cabling Engineer
4 12 (18.75%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Installations Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Audio Visual Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Data Centre Technician
6 5 (7.81%) Data Technician
6 5 (7.81%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) IT Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) IT Support
6 5 (7.81%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Data Centre Operations Technician
7 3 (4.69%) Operations Technician
8 2 (3.13%) Accountant
8 2 (3.13%) Assistant Accountant
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) Driving Licence
2 12 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 9 (14.06%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.81%) Fibre Optics
4 5 (7.81%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (6.25%) CCTV
5 4 (6.25%) Digital Signage
6 2 (3.13%) EPoS
7 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (31.25%) Windows
2 5 (7.81%) Windows 10
2 5 (7.81%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.56%) Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.56%) Customer Service
2 15 (23.44%) People Management
3 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
4 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (9.38%) CRM
5 6 (9.38%) High Availability
6 5 (7.81%) Data Centre Operations
7 4 (6.25%) Asset Management
7 4 (6.25%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (6.25%) Project Management
8 2 (3.13%) Break/Fix
8 2 (3.13%) Business Development
8 2 (3.13%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (3.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (3.13%) ITIL
8 2 (3.13%) Systems Engineering
9 1 (1.56%) DevOps
9 1 (1.56%) Infrastructure Automation
9 1 (1.56%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.56%) Bash
1 1 (1.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
2 4 (6.25%) NVQ Level 3
3 2 (3.13%) AAT
3 2 (3.13%) ACCA
3 2 (3.13%) CCNA
3 2 (3.13%) CIMA
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.13%) MCSA
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.44%) SLA
2 2 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (31.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Ansible
1 1 (1.56%) Argo
1 1 (1.56%) Grafana
1 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.56%) Packer
1 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.13%) Sage
2 2 (3.13%) Xero