Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 September 2020

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 22 September 2020 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Telecommunications
UK
6 months to
22 Sep 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 120 101 116
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 -38
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 1,291 4,308 4,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.59% 3.10% 2.78%
As % of the General category 6.70% 7.82% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,082 3,158 3,596
Median annual salary £50,750 £50,000 £49,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +1.50% +2.04% +3.16%
10th Percentile £29,300 £26,750 £25,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -

Telecoms is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

All General Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,261 55,114 71,843
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.67% 39.62% 43.14%
Number of salaries quoted 15,069 41,268 54,950
Median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,000 £29,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.53% +3.33% +3.45%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the UK

Telecoms
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Telecoms in the UK

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 22 September 2020.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the UK

Telecoms
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the UK over the 6 months to 22 September 2020. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -20 1,231 £51,000 +2.00% 296
UK excluding London -33 769 £47,500 +5.56% 265
London -1 473 £60,000 +2.56% 60
South East +13 363 £45,000 -10.00% 89
Work from Home 0 144 £55,000 -8.33% 38
South West -21 130 £45,000 - 39
North of England -74 117 £50,000 +25.00% 55
North West -47 81 £47,500 +11.76% 32
East of England +27 63 £43,750 +2.94% 22
Midlands -74 63 £48,500 +10.23% 30
West Midlands -65 44 £50,000 +17.65% 22
Yorkshire -30 30 £55,000 +37.50% 20
East Midlands -8 16 £40,000 -11.11% 8
Scotland +61 15 £36,000 -28.00% 11
Wales +18 15 £52,500 +23.53% 15
North East +9 6 £44,000 +3.03% 3
Northern Ireland +17 3 £50,000 +104.96% 4

For the 6 months to 22 September 2020, IT jobs citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Telecoms.

1 421 (32.61%) Finance
2 295 (22.85%) Marketing
3 276 (21.38%) Business Intelligence
3 276 (21.38%) Public Sector
4 268 (20.76%) Manufacturing
5 261 (20.22%) SAP
6 258 (19.98%) Electronics
7 257 (19.91%) Programme Management
8 246 (19.05%) Microsoft
9 244 (18.90%) Digital Marketing
10 221 (17.12%) Agile Software Development
11 197 (15.26%) Degree
12 168 (13.01%) Azure
12 168 (13.01%) Linux
13 161 (12.47%) Cisco
14 149 (11.54%) Python
15 140 (10.84%) AWS
16 135 (10.46%) JavaScript
17 120 (9.30%) Project Management
18 114 (8.83%) Windows
19 112 (8.68%) ITIL
19 112 (8.68%) Microsoft Office
20 106 (8.21%) Problem-Solving
21 103 (7.98%) DevOps
21 103 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
22 102 (7.90%) Active Directory
23 101 (7.82%) Cisco Certification
23 101 (7.82%) Firewall
24 100 (7.75%) Software Engineering
25 98 (7.59%) VMware

Telecoms
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (2.48%) Skype for Business
2 31 (2.40%) Confluence
3 28 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.32%) CMS
5 16 (1.24%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.24%) MS Exchange
6 13 (1.01%) Apache
7 7 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
8 6 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (0.31%) IIS
9 4 (0.31%) Mule
9 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.23%) Tornado
10 3 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.15%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.15%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 112 (8.68%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (5.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.70%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.77%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.54%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.31%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.15%) Zeplin
11 1 (0.077%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.54%) SAP PSCD
4 4 (0.31%) FastStats
4 4 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (0.31%) Unica
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.23%) Salesforce.com CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle BRM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.077%) HealthRoster
7 1 (0.077%) Magento
7 1 (0.077%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.077%) Primavera
7 1 (0.077%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.077%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.077%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.077%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 168 (13.01%) Azure
2 140 (10.84%) AWS
3 86 (6.66%) Office 365
4 46 (3.56%) SaaS
5 34 (2.63%) GCP
6 27 (2.09%) Power Platform
7 23 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (1.70%) IaaS
9 20 (1.55%) Serverless
10 18 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (1.01%) Mimecast
12 10 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (0.62%) Azure Active Directory
13 8 (0.62%) PaaS
13 8 (0.62%) Trello
14 5 (0.39%) PowerApps
15 4 (0.31%) GitHub
15 4 (0.31%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 101 (7.82%) Firewall
2 93 (7.20%) WAN
3 90 (6.97%) Wireless
4 89 (6.89%) Internet
5 88 (6.82%) LAN
6 86 (6.66%) 5G
7 78 (6.04%) VoIP
8 65 (5.03%) VPN
9 62 (4.80%) MPLS
10 56 (4.34%) Network Security
11 55 (4.26%) Broadband
12 54 (4.18%) BGP
13 52 (4.03%) Unified Communications
13 52 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
14 51 (3.95%) Ethernet
15 49 (3.80%) Skype
16 46 (3.56%) OSPF
17 42 (3.25%) TCP/IP
18 39 (3.02%) 4G
19 35 (2.71%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (3.25%) Big Data
2 40 (3.10%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.94%) MySQL
4 25 (1.94%) Power BI
5 18 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.32%) GIS
7 16 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.08%) Hadoop
9 8 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
9 8 (0.62%) Impala
9 8 (0.62%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.54%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 7 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (0.54%) Redis
11 6 (0.46%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.39%) OLAP
13 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 80 (6.20%) Git (software)
2 61 (4.73%) JIRA
3 27 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.63%) Selenium
5 15 (1.16%) Subversion
6 10 (0.77%) NUnit
6 10 (0.77%) SpecFlow
7 8 (0.62%) Appium
7 8 (0.62%) Maven
7 8 (0.62%) Xcode
8 7 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.46%) JUnit
10 5 (0.39%) Fiddler
10 5 (0.39%) Postman
10 5 (0.39%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.31%) git-flow
11 4 (0.31%) Grunt
11 4 (0.31%) PHPUnit
11 4 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 421 (32.61%) Finance
2 295 (22.85%) Marketing
3 276 (21.38%) Public Sector
4 268 (20.76%) Manufacturing
5 258 (19.98%) Electronics
6 69 (5.34%) Banking
7 58 (4.49%) Retail
8 35 (2.71%) Legal
9 30 (2.32%) Local Government
10 24 (1.86%) Billing
11 17 (1.32%) Back Office
11 17 (1.32%) Games
12 10 (0.77%) Spanish Language
13 9 (0.70%) German Language
14 8 (0.62%) Italian Language
14 8 (0.62%) Law
15 7 (0.54%) Digital Economy
16 6 (0.46%) Advertising
16 6 (0.46%) French Language
16 6 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 119 (9.22%) Developer
2 100 (7.75%) Architect
3 97 (7.51%) Analyst
4 76 (5.89%) Network Engineer
5 64 (4.96%) Telecoms Manager
6 57 (4.42%) Project Manager
6 57 (4.42%) Software Engineer
7 53 (4.11%) Consultant
8 43 (3.33%) Support Engineer
9 39 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (2.63%) Senior Manager
11 32 (2.48%) Security Engineer
12 30 (2.32%) Design Engineer
12 30 (2.32%) Software Developer
13 28 (2.17%) Network Architect
13 28 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
14 26 (2.01%) Administrator
15 25 (1.94%) Embedded Engineer
15 25 (1.94%) Product Manager
15 25 (1.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (5.81%) .NET
1 75 (5.81%) CSS
1 75 (5.81%) HTML
2 40 (3.10%) Node.js
3 35 (2.71%) ASP.NET
3 35 (2.71%) REST
4 31 (2.40%) AngularJS
5 28 (2.17%) React
5 28 (2.17%) RESTful
6 25 (1.94%) Vue.js
7 22 (1.70%) .NET Core
8 21 (1.63%) XML
9 19 (1.47%) Web Services
10 18 (1.39%) WebRTC
11 17 (1.32%) jQuery
12 16 (1.24%) LINQ
12 16 (1.24%) SOAP
13 15 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
13 15 (1.16%) HTML5
14 14 (1.08%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
2 83 (6.43%) Data Centre
3 65 (5.03%) Management Information System
4 54 (4.18%) User Experience
5 42 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (2.71%) Algorithms
7 27 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.01%) Public Cloud
9 24 (1.86%) Blog
10 23 (1.78%) Fibre Optics
11 22 (1.70%) Driving Licence
11 22 (1.70%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.55%) Internet of Things
13 19 (1.47%) Private Cloud
14 16 (1.24%) Cloud Native
14 16 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
15 15 (1.16%) Client/Server
16 13 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (1.01%) NHS
16 13 (1.01%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 168 (13.01%) Linux
2 114 (8.83%) Windows
3 37 (2.87%) Unix
4 35 (2.71%) Windows Server
5 27 (2.09%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.24%) CentOS
7 15 (1.16%) Android
8 14 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (1.01%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.46%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.31%) Debian
12 4 (0.31%) SUSE
12 4 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.23%) Windows Vista
14 2 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (21.38%) Business Intelligence
2 257 (19.91%) Programme Management
3 244 (18.90%) Digital Marketing
4 221 (17.12%) Agile Software Development
5 120 (9.30%) Project Management
6 112 (8.68%) ITIL
7 106 (8.21%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (7.98%) DevOps
9 100 (7.75%) Software Engineering
10 90 (6.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 84 (6.51%) Cybersecurity
12 75 (5.81%) Computer Science
13 69 (5.34%) Project Delivery
14 66 (5.11%) Scrum
15 61 (4.73%) Test Automation
16 60 (4.65%) Mentoring
17 58 (4.49%) Continuous Improvement
18 57 (4.42%) Information Security
19 56 (4.34%) Customer Requirements
20 54 (4.18%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 149 (11.54%) Python
2 135 (10.46%) JavaScript
3 94 (7.28%) SQL
4 90 (6.97%) Java
5 75 (5.81%) C
5 75 (5.81%) C++
6 67 (5.19%) C#
7 39 (3.02%) Bash Shell
8 30 (2.32%) PHP
9 17 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.24%) Apex Code
10 16 (1.24%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.01%) Scala
11 13 (1.01%) VBA
12 12 (0.93%) Go
13 10 (0.77%) Perl
13 10 (0.77%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.62%) Assembly Language
15 6 (0.46%) MATLAB
15 6 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 197 (15.26%) Degree
2 101 (7.82%) Cisco Certification
3 72 (5.58%) CCNP
4 60 (4.65%) Security Cleared
5 57 (4.42%) CCNA
6 39 (3.02%) CCIE
7 32 (2.48%) SC Cleared
8 30 (2.32%) SANS
9 28 (2.17%) CISSP
9 28 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.01%) CISM
11 24 (1.86%) MCSA
12 17 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (1.24%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.24%) CISA
14 14 (1.08%) Master's Degree
15 13 (1.01%) DV Cleared
16 11 (0.85%) MCSE
17 10 (0.77%) PMI Certification
18 9 (0.70%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.58%) SLA
2 63 (4.88%) QA
3 50 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.32%) GDPR
5 8 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.54%) NIST
7 6 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.39%) COBIT
9 4 (0.31%) PMO
10 3 (0.23%) DO-178B
10 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.23%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.23%) NCSC
10 3 (0.23%) SEPA
11 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.15%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 102 (7.90%) Active Directory
2 67 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (3.80%) Hyper-V
4 44 (3.41%) Docker
5 27 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
6 24 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.93%) VMware Workstation
8 11 (0.85%) Firmware
9 6 (0.46%) Kamailio
9 6 (0.46%) KVM
10 5 (0.39%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 5 (0.39%) MetaFrame
11 4 (0.31%) NFS
12 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.23%) vSphere
13 2 (0.15%) Samba
13 2 (0.15%) Squid
13 2 (0.15%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.077%) Xen
Systems Management
1 40 (3.10%) Kubernetes
1 40 (3.10%) Terraform
2 29 (2.25%) QRadar
3 24 (1.86%) Ansible
4 20 (1.55%) SCVMM
5 19 (1.47%) Grafana
6 16 (1.24%) SCCM
7 15 (1.16%) Puppet
8 13 (1.01%) Cisco CUCM
9 9 (0.70%) Cisco UCCX
10 7 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
11 6 (0.46%) Nagios
12 5 (0.39%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.39%) Marathon
12 5 (0.39%) Mesos
13 4 (0.31%) Backup Exec
13 4 (0.31%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
14 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 261 (20.22%) SAP
2 246 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 161 (12.47%) Cisco
4 98 (7.59%) VMware
5 50 (3.87%) Splunk
6 48 (3.72%) Palo Alto
7 42 (3.25%) CheckPoint
8 39 (3.02%) Google
8 39 (3.02%) IBM
9 33 (2.56%) Dell
10 32 (2.48%) Oracle
11 31 (2.40%) CyberArk
12 29 (2.25%) Thycotic
13 26 (2.01%) ArcSight
13 26 (2.01%) BeyondTrust
13 26 (2.01%) Bomgar
13 26 (2.01%) LogRhythm
13 26 (2.01%) NetWitness
13 26 (2.01%) Nokia
13 26 (2.01%) Salesforce.com
338 Telecoms job vacancies Nationwide