Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 October 2021

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 21 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Telecommunications
UK
6 months to
21 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 158 129 104
Rank change year-on-year -29 -25 +13
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 2,925 1,238 4,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.32% 2.53% 3.11%
As % of the General category 3.94% 4.98% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,976 936 2,957
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,675 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.74% +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 74,200 24,877 75,719
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.81% 50.85% 55.25%
Number of salaries quoted 45,344 20,092 57,900
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -

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 21 October 2021.

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 21 October 2021. 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 -22 2,698 £55,000 +10.00% 712
UK excluding London -8 1,692 £46,675 -1.74% 548
London -38 1,018 £65,000 +8.33% 196
South East -20 647 £52,500 +16.67% 178
Work from Home -60 539 £60,000 +20.00% 91
South West +6 314 £45,000 -5.26% 70
Midlands +20 284 £42,500 -15.00% 91
North of England -16 266 £45,675 -8.65% 112
West Midlands +12 224 £40,000 -20.00% 59
North West -29 162 £50,000 +5.26% 66
East of England -43 112 £42,500 +9.68% 58
Yorkshire -33 97 £42,500 -22.73% 37
East Midlands -41 58 £45,000 +12.50% 31
Scotland -46 50 £42,500 +18.06% 26
Wales -29 38 £43,750 -18.22% 11
North East -21 11 £24,500 -44.32% 9
Northern Ireland -44 7 £60,500 +21.00% 1

For the 6 months to 21 October 2021, 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.

1 972 (33.23%) Finance
2 909 (31.08%) Social Skills
3 689 (23.56%) Agile Software Development
4 663 (22.67%) Marketing
5 635 (21.71%) Business Intelligence
6 613 (20.96%) Manufacturing
7 595 (20.34%) Public Sector
8 582 (19.90%) Electronics
9 565 (19.32%) Digital Marketing
10 564 (19.28%) Programme Management
11 558 (19.08%) SAP
12 491 (16.79%) Degree
13 442 (15.11%) Microsoft
14 376 (12.85%) AWS
15 366 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
16 342 (11.69%) Python
17 327 (11.18%) Azure
18 310 (10.60%) Project Management
19 300 (10.26%) Linux
20 295 (10.09%) Cisco
21 291 (9.95%) Java
22 286 (9.78%) JavaScript
23 282 (9.64%) Software Engineering
24 281 (9.61%) Windows
25 274 (9.37%) SQL
26 271 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
27 269 (9.20%) ITIL
28 257 (8.79%) DevOps
29 238 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
30 236 (8.07%) Cybersecurity

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 57 (1.95%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.16%) Confluence
3 30 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 29 (0.99%) MS Exchange
5 27 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 21 (0.72%) Apache
7 21 (0.72%) OpenStack
8 17 (0.58%) SAS
9 16 (0.55%) IIS
10 13 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
10 13 (0.44%) Skype for Business
11 11 (0.38%) nginx
12 10 (0.34%) CMS
13 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
14 5 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
15 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
15 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
15 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 150 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 31 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.14%) Figma
10 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.10%) OmniGraffle
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.10%) SPSS
11 2 (0.068%) InDesign
11 2 (0.068%) Simulink
11 2 (0.068%) Zemax
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.27%) Salesforce.com CRM
2 8 (0.27%) Sentinel
2 8 (0.27%) Unica
3 6 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.17%) FastStats
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 3 (0.10%) Shopify
6 3 (0.10%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 2 (0.068%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.068%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.068%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.034%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.034%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.034%) iTrent
8 1 (0.034%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 376 (12.85%) AWS
2 327 (11.18%) Azure
3 169 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
4 162 (5.54%) SaaS
5 132 (4.51%) GCP
6 52 (1.78%) Serverless
7 51 (1.74%) Twilio
8 47 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
9 46 (1.57%) Amazon S3
10 34 (1.16%) Power Platform
11 29 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (0.75%) OpenShift
14 21 (0.72%) Azure Active Directory
15 19 (0.65%) PaaS
15 19 (0.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 18 (0.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 15 (0.51%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
18 14 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 228 (7.79%) Firewall
2 216 (7.38%) WAN
3 182 (6.22%) LAN
4 168 (5.74%) Wireless
5 163 (5.57%) Broadband
6 145 (4.96%) TCP/IP
7 125 (4.27%) 5G
8 105 (3.59%) DNS
8 105 (3.59%) Ethernet
9 103 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
10 102 (3.49%) VPN
11 99 (3.38%) VoIP
12 98 (3.35%) MPLS
13 85 (2.91%) Internet
14 81 (2.77%) Network Security
15 79 (2.70%) HTTP
16 71 (2.43%) DHCP
17 67 (2.29%) 4G
18 64 (2.19%) BGP
19 57 (1.95%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (4.51%) SQL Server
2 120 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
3 86 (2.94%) MySQL
4 72 (2.46%) MongoDB
5 70 (2.39%) Big Data
6 57 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 47 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 41 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 37 (1.26%) Oracle Database
10 36 (1.23%) RDBMS
11 33 (1.13%) Tableau
12 32 (1.09%) Power BI
13 31 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
14 30 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
15 27 (0.92%) Hadoop
15 27 (0.92%) Redis
16 25 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (0.75%) HBase
18 18 (0.62%) BigQuery
19 17 (0.58%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 148 (5.06%) Git (software)
2 108 (3.69%) JIRA
3 68 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.98%) Maven
5 33 (1.13%) Cypress.io
6 27 (0.92%) Selenium
6 27 (0.92%) Subversion
7 25 (0.85%) Visual Studio
8 23 (0.79%) JUnit
9 19 (0.65%) Cucumber
9 19 (0.65%) GitLab
10 18 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 16 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
12 15 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
13 13 (0.44%) gulp
13 13 (0.44%) IntelliJ
14 11 (0.38%) Postman
15 10 (0.34%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.34%) Liquibase
15 10 (0.34%) SpecFlow
General
1 972 (33.23%) Finance
2 909 (31.08%) Social Skills
3 663 (22.67%) Marketing
4 613 (20.96%) Manufacturing
5 595 (20.34%) Public Sector
6 582 (19.90%) Electronics
7 271 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
8 198 (6.77%) Banking
9 193 (6.60%) Retail
10 122 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
11 102 (3.49%) Legal
12 92 (3.15%) Billing
13 77 (2.63%) Law
14 64 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
15 62 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
16 48 (1.64%) Games
17 47 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
18 37 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
19 32 (1.09%) Automotive
20 27 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 313 (10.70%) Developer
2 229 (7.83%) Architect
3 206 (7.04%) Analyst
4 172 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 158 (5.40%) Consultant
6 130 (4.44%) Software Engineer
7 128 (4.38%) Network Engineer
8 108 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
9 95 (3.25%) Software Developer
10 80 (2.74%) Telecoms Engineer
11 78 (2.67%) Telecoms Manager
12 71 (2.43%) Support Engineer
13 69 (2.36%) Business Analyst
13 69 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 67 (2.29%) IT Support
15 65 (2.22%) IT Manager
16 58 (1.98%) Senior Manager
17 57 (1.95%) DevOps Engineer
17 57 (1.95%) Senior Developer
18 56 (1.91%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (5.85%) AngularJS
2 164 (5.61%) CSS
3 157 (5.37%) HTML
4 130 (4.44%) REST
5 129 (4.41%) React
6 122 (4.17%) Node.js
7 112 (3.83%) .NET
8 111 (3.79%) Spring
9 110 (3.76%) Web Services
10 81 (2.77%) SOAP
11 71 (2.43%) XML
12 52 (1.78%) jQuery
13 46 (1.57%) Spring Boot
14 43 (1.47%) .NET Core
15 40 (1.37%) ASP.NET
16 38 (1.30%) Jest
16 38 (1.30%) XMPP
17 36 (1.23%) Vue.js
18 35 (1.20%) TensorFlow
19 33 (1.13%) Angular 2
Miscellaneous
1 174 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
2 162 (5.54%) Data Centre
3 128 (4.38%) User Experience
4 107 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 73 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 64 (2.19%) Social Media
7 62 (2.12%) Driving Licence
8 56 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 43 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
10 42 (1.44%) Smart City
11 35 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 33 (1.13%) Fibre Optics
13 31 (1.06%) Smartphone
14 28 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
14 28 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 26 (0.89%) Public Cloud
16 25 (0.85%) Mobile App
17 23 (0.79%) Legacy Code
18 22 (0.75%) SCADA
19 20 (0.68%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 300 (10.26%) Linux
2 281 (9.61%) Windows
3 108 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 58 (1.98%) Unix
5 45 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 36 (1.23%) Windows 10
7 33 (1.13%) Android
8 29 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
9 25 (0.85%) CentOS
10 22 (0.75%) Apple iOS
10 22 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 19 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
13 16 (0.55%) Ubuntu
14 14 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
15 10 (0.34%) VMS
16 9 (0.31%) Solaris
16 9 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 6 (0.21%) CatOS
18 5 (0.17%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (23.56%) Agile Software Development
2 635 (21.71%) Business Intelligence
3 565 (19.32%) Digital Marketing
4 564 (19.28%) Programme Management
5 366 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
6 310 (10.60%) Project Management
7 282 (9.64%) Software Engineering
8 269 (9.20%) ITIL
9 257 (8.79%) DevOps
10 238 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 236 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
12 231 (7.90%) Computer Science
13 177 (6.05%) Scrum
14 167 (5.71%) Test Automation
15 160 (5.47%) Microservices
16 156 (5.33%) Decision-Making
17 154 (5.26%) Mentoring
18 152 (5.20%) Analytics
19 148 (5.06%) Full Stack Development
20 146 (4.99%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 342 (11.69%) Python
2 291 (9.95%) Java
3 286 (9.78%) JavaScript
4 274 (9.37%) SQL
5 135 (4.62%) C++
6 134 (4.58%) TypeScript
7 120 (4.10%) C#
8 119 (4.07%) C
9 73 (2.50%) Java 8
10 67 (2.29%) PowerShell
11 65 (2.22%) Go
12 64 (2.19%) Bash Shell
13 39 (1.33%) R
14 37 (1.26%) PHP
15 34 (1.16%) Perl
16 33 (1.13%) Java 11
17 29 (0.99%) T-SQL
18 28 (0.96%) Ruby
19 26 (0.89%) Embedded C++
20 25 (0.85%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 491 (16.79%) Degree
2 139 (4.75%) Cisco Certification
3 115 (3.93%) Security Cleared
4 96 (3.28%) CCNP
5 91 (3.11%) SC Cleared
6 75 (2.56%) CCNA
7 73 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 48 (1.64%) CISSP
10 47 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (1.20%) CISM
11 35 (1.20%) MCSA
11 35 (1.20%) PMI Certification
11 35 (1.20%) PMP
12 33 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 31 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
13 31 (1.06%) MCSE
14 29 (0.99%) PhD
15 23 (0.79%) HNC
16 22 (0.75%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (5.47%) QA
2 109 (3.73%) SLA
3 69 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 64 (2.19%) NIST
5 57 (1.95%) GDPR
6 50 (1.71%) PMO
7 30 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.51%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.41%) Good Clinical Practice
11 9 (0.31%) COBIT
12 8 (0.27%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.24%) GAAP
14 6 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.21%) GRC
14 6 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.21%) TickIT
15 5 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 218 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 198 (6.77%) Docker
3 125 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (2.32%) Hyper-V
5 38 (1.30%) Firmware
6 27 (0.92%) vSphere
7 21 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.41%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.34%) KVM
11 9 (0.31%) XenApp
12 8 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 8 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.24%) iptables
13 7 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
14 6 (0.21%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.17%) Kamailio
15 5 (0.17%) Snort
15 5 (0.17%) Squid
15 5 (0.17%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 135 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 100 (3.42%) Ansible
3 80 (2.74%) Terraform
4 36 (1.23%) Kibana
5 31 (1.06%) Puppet
6 27 (0.92%) Graylog
7 25 (0.85%) SCCM
8 20 (0.68%) Grafana
9 19 (0.65%) Cisco Prime
10 18 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 18 (0.62%) SCOM
11 17 (0.58%) WSUS
12 13 (0.44%) Kubeflow
13 12 (0.41%) Amdocs OSS
13 12 (0.41%) Prometheus
13 12 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
15 8 (0.27%) Cisco UCCX
15 8 (0.27%) Nessus
15 8 (0.27%) Opscode Chef
Vendors
1 558 (19.08%) SAP
2 442 (15.11%) Microsoft
3 295 (10.09%) Cisco
4 199 (6.80%) VMware
5 121 (4.14%) Google
6 116 (3.97%) Oracle
7 63 (2.15%) Juniper
7 63 (2.15%) Salesforce.com
8 49 (1.68%) EMC
9 42 (1.44%) Citrix
10 38 (1.30%) ServiceNow
11 36 (1.23%) Remedy
12 35 (1.20%) F5
13 29 (0.99%) CheckPoint
14 28 (0.96%) Apple
14 28 (0.96%) Avaya
14 28 (0.96%) Palo Alto
14 28 (0.96%) SolarWinds
15 26 (0.89%) Dell
15 26 (0.89%) Splunk
796 Telecoms job vacancies Nationwide