Telecoms Jobs

Telecommunications
UK

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 cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 130 66
Rank change year-on-year +15 -64 +115
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 1,303 2,145 4,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.50% 2.18% 4.65%
As % of the General category 3.70% 3.64% 6.78%
Number of salaries quoted 524 1,475 1,249
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,150 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,000 £40,000 £43,251
% change year-on-year -17.50% -7.52% -8.95%

All General Skills
UK

Telecoms falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,192 58,854 71,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.47% 59.84% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,374 39,596 38,382
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +14 1,165 £45,000 - 970
UK excluding London +17 1,032 £33,000 -17.50% 684
Midlands +41 288 £37,500 -6.25% 118
South East -12 279 £31,500 -16.00% 217
North of England +51 265 £35,000 -22.22% 147
London +45 254 £70,000 +7.69% 365
Work from Home -27 219 £65,000 +30.00% 417
North West +26 218 £47,683 +12.20% 92
West Midlands +55 210 £37,500 -11.76% 78
Scotland +129 87 £26,929 -38.45% 50
East Midlands +14 77 £38,750 -0.64% 39
East of England -18 53 £45,000 -7.69% 79
South West -27 51 £28,500 -28.75% 68
Yorkshire +42 39 £29,500 -37.89% 46
Wales +26 17 £36,000 +10.77% 27
North East +43 7 £29,250 +6.36% 12
Northern Ireland +2 3 £57,500 +64.29% 9

Telecoms
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 22 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.54%) SAS
4 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.077%) IIS
5 1 (0.077%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.077%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.077%) WordPress
Applications
1 72 (5.53%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (3.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.54%) Maya
6 5 (0.38%) SPSS
7 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.077%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.077%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.077%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (1.69%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (0.54%) SAP IBP
2 7 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.077%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 87 (6.68%) Azure
2 78 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
3 72 (5.53%) AWS
4 49 (3.76%) GCP
5 37 (2.84%) SaaS
6 24 (1.84%) PaaS
7 22 (1.69%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.00%) Serverless
9 9 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (0.69%) IBM Watson
10 7 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.46%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (0.46%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.38%) IaaS
13 4 (0.31%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.31%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.31%) Google Workspace
14 3 (0.23%) Asana
14 3 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 103 (7.90%) TCP/IP
2 85 (6.52%) VPN
3 70 (5.37%) 5G
4 68 (5.22%) VoIP
5 58 (4.45%) Firewall
6 45 (3.45%) 4G
7 36 (2.76%) LAN
7 36 (2.76%) Network Security
8 35 (2.69%) Broadband
9 32 (2.46%) Wireless
10 30 (2.30%) Internet
10 30 (2.30%) VLAN
11 28 (2.15%) DNS
12 27 (2.07%) WAN
13 24 (1.84%) 3GPP
14 21 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (1.38%) MPLS
16 16 (1.23%) DHCP
17 12 (0.92%) OSPF
17 12 (0.92%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (1.61%) Power BI
2 15 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (1.15%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (0.92%) NoSQL
4 9 (0.69%) MySQL
4 9 (0.69%) QlikView
4 9 (0.69%) Relational Database
5 8 (0.61%) RDBMS
6 7 (0.54%) Big Data
6 7 (0.54%) SAP BW
6 7 (0.54%) Tableau
7 5 (0.38%) Apache Hive
7 5 (0.38%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.31%) GIS
8 4 (0.31%) Metadata
8 4 (0.31%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 65 (4.99%) Robot Framework
2 64 (4.91%) Cucumber
3 39 (2.99%) Git
4 29 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.07%) JIRA
6 5 (0.38%) GitLab
7 3 (0.23%) Maven
7 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.23%) Subversion
8 2 (0.15%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.15%) Gradle
8 2 (0.15%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.077%) CMake
9 1 (0.077%) GDB
9 1 (0.077%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.077%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.077%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.077%) WinDbg
9 1 (0.077%) WiX
General
1 346 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 321 (24.64%) Automotive
3 275 (21.11%) Finance
4 183 (14.04%) Retail
5 138 (10.59%) Marketing
6 133 (10.21%) Manufacturing
7 122 (9.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 119 (9.13%) Public Sector
9 116 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
10 110 (8.44%) Electronics
11 107 (8.21%) Games
12 78 (5.99%) Law
13 48 (3.68%) Banking
14 41 (3.15%) Legal
15 28 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
16 27 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (1.69%) Military
18 21 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
19 20 (1.53%) Billing
20 16 (1.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 310 (23.79%) Senior
2 265 (20.34%) Principal Engineer
3 261 (20.03%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 152 (11.67%) Systems Engineer
5 101 (7.75%) Analyst
6 66 (5.07%) IT Support
7 65 (4.99%) Test Engineer
8 64 (4.91%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 64 (4.91%) Test Automation Engineer
9 54 (4.14%) Support Analyst
10 46 (3.53%) IT Analyst
11 45 (3.45%) Support Engineer
12 40 (3.07%) IT Support Analyst
13 39 (2.99%) Developer
14 38 (2.92%) Architect
15 32 (2.46%) Risk Manager
15 32 (2.46%) Technology Risk Manager
16 29 (2.23%) Network Engineer
17 28 (2.15%) IT Manager
17 28 (2.15%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.84%) Node.js
2 15 (1.15%) REST
3 12 (0.92%) RESTful
4 10 (0.77%) Spring Boot
5 9 (0.69%) Middleware
6 8 (0.61%) Kafka
6 8 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (0.54%) FastAPI
7 7 (0.54%) Flask
7 7 (0.54%) HTML
8 6 (0.46%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.46%) CSS
8 6 (0.46%) XML
9 5 (0.38%) 802.1X
9 5 (0.38%) React
10 4 (0.31%) JSON
11 3 (0.23%) .NET
11 3 (0.23%) EDI
11 3 (0.23%) GraphQL
11 3 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.07%) Linux Command Line
2 64 (4.91%) Management Information System
3 55 (4.22%) Robotics
4 54 (4.14%) Blockchain
5 36 (2.76%) Driving Licence
6 29 (2.23%) PMI
6 29 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (1.84%) IoT
8 23 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 22 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 19 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
11 17 (1.30%) CCTV
12 14 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.07%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (0.77%) PACS
15 9 (0.69%) Analogue Electronics
15 9 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (0.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 177 (13.58%) Windows
2 129 (9.90%) Linux
3 41 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.61%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.84%) Android
8 9 (0.69%) Unix
9 5 (0.38%) Mac OS X
9 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.15%) Android TV
11 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.15%) VMS
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.077%) Debian
12 1 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.077%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (25.94%) Problem-Solving
2 315 (24.17%) Systems Engineering
3 211 (16.19%) Mentoring
4 169 (12.97%) Architectural Design
5 160 (12.28%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 143 (10.97%) Customer Service
7 138 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
8 125 (9.59%) Coaching
9 122 (9.36%) Agile
10 115 (8.83%) Business Intelligence
10 115 (8.83%) DevOps
11 107 (8.21%) Project Planning
12 104 (7.98%) Analytics
13 101 (7.75%) Programme Management
14 97 (7.44%) Digital Marketing
15 93 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
16 91 (6.98%) Project Delivery
17 89 (6.83%) Project Management
18 78 (5.99%) Test Automation
19 68 (5.22%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 172 (13.20%) Python
2 81 (6.22%) Bash
2 81 (6.22%) PowerShell
3 75 (5.76%) JavaScript
4 44 (3.38%) SQL
5 40 (3.07%) R
6 28 (2.15%) C
6 28 (2.15%) Java
7 23 (1.77%) C++
8 14 (1.07%) Perl
9 13 (1.00%) C#
10 12 (0.92%) PHP
11 9 (0.69%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.38%) Assembly Language
12 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.38%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.23%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.15%) Ruby
14 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 553 (42.44%) Degree
2 93 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 88 (6.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 49 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 48 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (3.22%) PMI Certification
7 35 (2.69%) CCNP
7 35 (2.69%) SC Cleared
8 30 (2.30%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.84%) CCNA
10 22 (1.69%) CISA
10 22 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.69%) ISACA
11 20 (1.53%) CISSP
12 18 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.23%) A+ Certification
14 14 (1.07%) CCIE
15 13 (1.00%) PMP
16 10 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.69%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (7.14%) QA
2 45 (3.45%) ITGC
3 25 (1.92%) NCSC
4 24 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.77%) SLA
6 19 (1.46%) GDPR
7 13 (1.00%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (0.69%) NIST
9 7 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.54%) MIL-STD-1553
10 6 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.31%) PMO
12 3 (0.23%) NEBOSH
12 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 42 (3.22%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.69%) Docker
3 8 (0.61%) Firmware
4 6 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.46%) vSphere
5 5 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.077%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.077%) Xen
Systems Management
1 38 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 32 (2.46%) Terraform
3 29 (2.23%) Ansible
4 9 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
4 9 (0.69%) SCCM
5 4 (0.31%) Puppet
6 3 (0.23%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 2 (0.15%) Cisco UCCX
7 2 (0.15%) EnCase
7 2 (0.15%) FTK
7 2 (0.15%) Nmap
7 2 (0.15%) RSA Security Analytics
8 1 (0.077%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.077%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.077%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.077%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.077%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.077%) Netcool
8 1 (0.077%) WSUS
Vendors
1 167 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 133 (10.21%) SAP
3 80 (6.14%) BT
4 59 (4.53%) Cisco
5 32 (2.46%) Oracle
6 28 (2.15%) Google
7 20 (1.53%) VMware
8 16 (1.23%) F5
9 15 (1.15%) CheckPoint
10 13 (1.00%) Apple
11 11 (0.84%) Databricks
11 11 (0.84%) Fortinet
12 10 (0.77%) HP
12 10 (0.77%) IBM
12 10 (0.77%) Juniper
12 10 (0.77%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.69%) Arista
14 8 (0.61%) Dell
14 8 (0.61%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.54%) Ariba