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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 689 753 871
Rank change year-on-year +64 +118 +348
Permanent jobs citing Structured Cabling 37 160 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.15% 0.058%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 1.18% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 34 115 45
10th Percentile £27,025 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £28,250 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £33,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -13.16% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £54,500 £67,000 £74,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,750 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +16.15% -7.14% +6.06%

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 11,407 13,525 14,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.39% 12.54% 16.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,373 9,180 7,603
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £35,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -6.86% -2.86%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -30.68% -2.22% -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

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 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Structured Cabling in the UK

Structured Cabling
Top 8 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 3 July 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 +65 34 £45,000 +32.55% 248
London +82 26 £45,000 +20.00% 144
UK excluding London +90 8 £37,750 +16.15% 130
South West +98 2 £37,750 +20.43% 16
North of England +51 2 £55,000 +77.42% 30
South East +39 2 £34,750 +6.92% 43
East of England +29 2 £25,500 -49.00% 20
North West +2 2 £55,000 +77.42% 15

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:

Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Entra ID
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.70%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) PBX
2 3 (8.11%) SAN
3 2 (5.41%) Broadband
3 2 (5.41%) Ethernet
3 2 (5.41%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.70%) DHCP
4 1 (2.70%) DNS
4 1 (2.70%) Firewall
4 1 (2.70%) FTP
4 1 (2.70%) IPv4
4 1 (2.70%) NAS
4 1 (2.70%) SMTP
4 1 (2.70%) VLAN
4 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.70%) Wireless
4 1 (2.70%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Finance
2 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Law
3 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (56.76%) Desktop Support
2 15 (40.54%) Desktop Manager
2 15 (40.54%) Desktop Support Manager
2 15 (40.54%) Support Manager
3 6 (16.22%) Desktop Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) IT Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) IT Support
3 6 (16.22%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Cabling Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Data Centre Technician
5 3 (8.11%) Data Technician
6 2 (5.41%) Business Development Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Commissioning Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Data Centre Operations Technician
6 2 (5.41%) Development Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Operations Technician
6 2 (5.41%) Sales Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Data Centre
2 6 (16.22%) CCTV
2 6 (16.22%) Driving Licence
3 3 (8.11%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (5.41%) EPoS
4 2 (5.41%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (56.76%) Windows
2 6 (16.22%) Windows 10
3 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) Android
4 1 (2.70%) Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) People Management
2 4 (10.81%) Business Development
3 3 (8.11%) Contract Negotiation
3 3 (8.11%) Data Centre Operations
4 2 (5.41%) Break/Fix
4 2 (5.41%) CRM
4 2 (5.41%) ITIL
4 2 (5.41%) Market Research
4 2 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (2.70%) Change Control
5 1 (2.70%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (2.70%) High Availability
5 1 (2.70%) Incident Management
5 1 (2.70%) ITSM
5 1 (2.70%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.70%) Process Improvement
5 1 (2.70%) Quality Management
5 1 (2.70%) Supply Chain Management
5 1 (2.70%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) Bash
1 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) CCNA
2 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) MCSA
3 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (2.70%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (40.54%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (56.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Ansible
1 1 (2.70%) Argo
1 1 (2.70%) Grafana
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Packer
1 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.70%) SCCM
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
1 1 (2.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Cisco
3 1 (2.70%) Aruba
3 1 (2.70%) Citrix
3 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.70%) HP
3 1 (2.70%) Juniper
3 1 (2.70%) Meraki
3 1 (2.70%) Ruckus Wireless
3 1 (2.70%) Veeam