Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 24 November 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 24 November 2020 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Telecommunications
UK
6 months to
24 Nov 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 123 101 112
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 -24
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 1,454 4,106 4,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.66% 3.06% 2.92%
As % of the General category 7.13% 7.75% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 3,108 3,769
Median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +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 20,406 52,996 68,226
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.34% 39.55% 42.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16,389 40,013 52,494
Median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% +6.00%
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £30,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.63% +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 24 November 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 24 November 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 -17 1,403 £50,000 - 364
UK excluding London -29 926 £45,000 -5.26% 302
London -16 474 £60,000 +9.09% 82
South East +13 404 £50,000 - 101
Work from Home -35 203 £50,000 -9.09% 58
South West -13 185 £47,500 +1.06% 42
North of England -40 147 £45,000 +7.78% 64
Midlands -61 104 £45,000 +5.88% 38
North West +16 93 £45,625 -3.95% 28
West Midlands -63 69 £48,500 +14.12% 23
East of England +8 57 £42,500 - 28
Yorkshire -41 44 £50,000 +33.33% 28
East Midlands -11 32 £37,500 -6.25% 15
Wales +9 16 £49,250 +31.33% 9
North East -3 10 £42,500 -15.00% 8
Scotland +29 9 £37,250 -25.50% 17
Northern Ireland +24 4 £45,000 +84.46% 3

For the 6 months to 24 November 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.

1 560 (38.51%) Finance
2 414 (28.47%) Marketing
3 396 (27.24%) Public Sector
4 389 (26.75%) Business Intelligence
5 381 (26.20%) Programme Management
6 380 (26.13%) Manufacturing
7 375 (25.79%) Electronics
8 372 (25.58%) SAP
9 365 (25.10%) Digital Marketing
10 268 (18.43%) Agile Software Development
11 257 (17.68%) Microsoft
12 237 (16.30%) Degree
13 191 (13.14%) Azure
13 191 (13.14%) Linux
14 172 (11.83%) JavaScript
15 163 (11.21%) AWS
16 161 (11.07%) Cisco
17 159 (10.94%) Python
18 135 (9.28%) ITIL
18 135 (9.28%) Active Directory
19 132 (9.08%) Windows
20 128 (8.80%) VMware
20 128 (8.80%) Problem-Solving
21 127 (8.73%) SQL
22 123 (8.46%) Java
23 117 (8.05%) Project Management
24 113 (7.77%) Computer Science
25 103 (7.08%) Cisco Certification
25 103 (7.08%) Wireless
25 103 (7.08%) 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 37 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 30 (2.06%) Skype for Business
4 29 (1.99%) Confluence
5 24 (1.65%) Mule
6 17 (1.17%) CMS
6 17 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (1.10%) MS Exchange
8 14 (0.96%) Apache
9 11 (0.76%) Tornado
10 9 (0.62%) Red Hat Fuse
11 8 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.55%) Mule ESB
12 7 (0.48%) BizTalk Server
13 6 (0.41%) JBoss
13 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.34%) WordPress
15 4 (0.28%) Joomla!
15 4 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 100 (6.88%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.38%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.69%) Zeplin
7 7 (0.48%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.34%) Simulink
9 4 (0.28%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.069%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.069%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.48%) SAP PSCD
3 5 (0.34%) JDE OneWorld
4 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.21%) Sentinel
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) Salesforce.com CRM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.14%) Social Studio
7 1 (0.069%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle BRM
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.069%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.069%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 191 (13.14%) Azure
2 163 (11.21%) AWS
3 85 (5.85%) Office 365
4 74 (5.09%) SaaS
5 48 (3.30%) GCP
6 33 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
7 29 (1.99%) Power Platform
8 17 (1.17%) IaaS
9 16 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (1.10%) Trello
10 15 (1.03%) Serverless
11 13 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (0.62%) PaaS
13 7 (0.48%) GitHub
14 6 (0.41%) npm
15 5 (0.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 5 (0.34%) Mimecast
15 5 (0.34%) OpenShift
15 5 (0.34%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 103 (7.08%) Wireless
2 101 (6.95%) Firewall
3 92 (6.33%) LAN
4 91 (6.26%) WAN
5 81 (5.57%) VoIP
6 74 (5.09%) Internet
7 72 (4.95%) 5G
8 64 (4.40%) TCP/IP
9 61 (4.20%) Ethernet
10 60 (4.13%) Broadband
11 59 (4.06%) VPN
12 58 (3.99%) Network Security
12 58 (3.99%) Wi-Fi
13 52 (3.58%) BGP
14 50 (3.44%) MPLS
15 49 (3.37%) Unified Communications
16 45 (3.09%) OSPF
17 43 (2.96%) 4G
17 43 (2.96%) Skype
18 41 (2.82%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 49 (3.37%) NoSQL
3 42 (2.89%) Big Data
4 37 (2.54%) MySQL
5 32 (2.20%) MongoDB
6 31 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (2.06%) Hadoop
8 27 (1.86%) Power BI
9 26 (1.79%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.38%) GIS
11 18 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (1.03%) Redis
13 13 (0.89%) Amazon DynamoDB
14 12 (0.83%) Tableau
15 11 (0.76%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 9 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
18 8 (0.55%) Impala
18 8 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 93 (6.40%) Git (software)
2 61 (4.20%) JIRA
3 26 (1.79%) JUnit
4 23 (1.58%) Selenium
4 23 (1.58%) Subversion
5 22 (1.51%) Maven
6 17 (1.17%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.96%) JBehave
7 14 (0.96%) Postman
8 12 (0.83%) Fiddler
8 12 (0.83%) SoapUI
9 10 (0.69%) Grunt
9 10 (0.69%) gulp
9 10 (0.69%) Jenkins
10 8 (0.55%) Appium
10 8 (0.55%) IntelliJ
10 8 (0.55%) Xcode
11 6 (0.41%) NUnit
12 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.28%) git-flow
General
1 560 (38.51%) Finance
2 414 (28.47%) Marketing
3 396 (27.24%) Public Sector
4 380 (26.13%) Manufacturing
5 375 (25.79%) Electronics
6 89 (6.12%) Banking
7 50 (3.44%) Retail
8 38 (2.61%) Legal
8 38 (2.61%) Local Government
9 23 (1.58%) Billing
10 18 (1.24%) Games
11 15 (1.03%) Advertising
11 15 (1.03%) Law
12 10 (0.69%) Back Office
12 10 (0.69%) Spanish Language
13 7 (0.48%) French Language
13 7 (0.48%) German Language
14 6 (0.41%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.41%) Italian Language
14 6 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 182 (12.52%) Developer
2 122 (8.39%) Architect
3 113 (7.77%) Analyst
4 89 (6.12%) Consultant
5 80 (5.50%) Telecoms Manager
6 79 (5.43%) Network Engineer
7 59 (4.06%) Software Engineer
8 47 (3.23%) Administrator
9 44 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 44 (3.03%) Support Engineer
10 39 (2.68%) Project Manager
10 39 (2.68%) Systems Administrator
11 38 (2.61%) Product Manager
12 37 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
13 36 (2.48%) Java Developer
14 34 (2.34%) Design Engineer
14 34 (2.34%) Senior Developer
15 33 (2.27%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 32 (2.20%) Network Architect
16 32 (2.20%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (6.26%) CSS
2 78 (5.36%) HTML
3 65 (4.47%) .NET
4 63 (4.33%) REST
5 56 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 43 (2.96%) Web Services
7 41 (2.82%) SOAP
8 40 (2.75%) Node.js
8 40 (2.75%) React
9 39 (2.68%) RESTful
10 34 (2.34%) Vue.js
10 34 (2.34%) XML
11 32 (2.20%) Spring
12 24 (1.65%) .NET Core
13 23 (1.58%) ASP.NET
13 23 (1.58%) jQuery
14 22 (1.51%) HTML5
15 21 (1.44%) WebRTC
16 19 (1.31%) JSON
17 18 (1.24%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 88 (6.05%) Data Centre
2 86 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (5.09%) Management Information System
4 70 (4.81%) User Experience
5 54 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (3.30%) Algorithms
7 34 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.06%) Blog
9 25 (1.72%) Cloud Native
10 23 (1.58%) Fibre Optics
11 22 (1.51%) Client/Server
12 21 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
13 19 (1.31%) Driving Licence
13 19 (1.31%) Internet of Things
14 18 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
14 18 (1.24%) Over-the-Top Content
15 16 (1.10%) FMCG
16 15 (1.03%) N-Tier
17 14 (0.96%) Data Structures
17 14 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 191 (13.14%) Linux
2 132 (9.08%) Windows
3 50 (3.44%) Unix
4 49 (3.37%) Windows Server
5 36 (2.48%) Windows 10
6 27 (1.86%) CentOS
7 23 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (1.10%) Android
9 14 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
10 12 (0.83%) Windows 7
10 12 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.55%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.28%) Debian
14 4 (0.28%) SUSE
15 3 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
15 3 (0.21%) Solaris
15 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.21%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (26.75%) Business Intelligence
2 381 (26.20%) Programme Management
3 365 (25.10%) Digital Marketing
4 268 (18.43%) Agile Software Development
5 135 (9.28%) ITIL
6 128 (8.80%) Problem-Solving
7 117 (8.05%) Project Management
8 113 (7.77%) Computer Science
9 103 (7.08%) Cybersecurity
10 102 (7.02%) DevOps
11 97 (6.67%) Software Engineering
12 91 (6.26%) Scrum
13 90 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 77 (5.30%) Project Delivery
15 72 (4.95%) Test Automation
16 70 (4.81%) Customer Requirements
17 64 (4.40%) Continuous Integration
18 62 (4.26%) Mentoring
19 58 (3.99%) Enterprise Architecture
20 56 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 172 (11.83%) JavaScript
2 159 (10.94%) Python
3 127 (8.73%) SQL
4 123 (8.46%) Java
5 75 (5.16%) C++
6 70 (4.81%) C
7 55 (3.78%) C#
8 53 (3.65%) Bash Shell
9 28 (1.93%) PHP
10 25 (1.72%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.44%) Scala
12 20 (1.38%) Apex Code
13 16 (1.10%) PowerShell
14 15 (1.03%) Go
15 14 (0.96%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.55%) MATLAB
16 8 (0.55%) Perl
17 6 (0.41%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.34%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 237 (16.30%) Degree
2 103 (7.08%) Cisco Certification
3 74 (5.09%) CCNP
4 71 (4.88%) Security Cleared
5 50 (3.44%) CCNA
6 40 (2.75%) CCIE
7 35 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (1.86%) SC Cleared
9 24 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (1.58%) MCSA
11 22 (1.51%) CISSP
11 22 (1.51%) SANS
12 20 (1.38%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.17%) CISM
14 15 (1.03%) AWS Certification
15 13 (0.89%) DV Cleared
15 13 (0.89%) MCSE
16 12 (0.83%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.78%) SLA
2 68 (4.68%) QA
3 51 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (2.54%) GDPR
5 12 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.69%) NIST
7 8 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.48%) PMO
9 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.34%) COBIT
10 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.34%) NCSC
10 5 (0.34%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.21%) DO-178B
12 3 (0.21%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 135 (9.28%) Active Directory
2 86 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (3.92%) Docker
4 47 (3.23%) Hyper-V
5 33 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
6 24 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.96%) Firmware
8 11 (0.76%) KVM
9 7 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.48%) vSphere
10 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
10 6 (0.41%) XenApp
11 5 (0.34%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 5 (0.34%) MetaFrame
11 5 (0.34%) NFS
11 5 (0.34%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.28%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.48%) Ansible
3 35 (2.41%) Terraform
4 33 (2.27%) Puppet
5 28 (1.93%) QRadar
6 24 (1.65%) SCCM
7 20 (1.38%) Grafana
7 20 (1.38%) SCVMM
8 13 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
9 9 (0.62%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.48%) Cisco UCCX
11 6 (0.41%) Graylog
11 6 (0.41%) Kibana
11 6 (0.41%) Nagios
11 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.34%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.34%) vRealize
13 4 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
13 4 (0.28%) Salt
14 3 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 372 (25.58%) SAP
2 257 (17.68%) Microsoft
3 161 (11.07%) Cisco
4 128 (8.80%) VMware
5 50 (3.44%) Splunk
6 44 (3.03%) Google
7 39 (2.68%) Palo Alto
8 38 (2.61%) Dell
9 36 (2.48%) IBM
9 36 (2.48%) Oracle
10 34 (2.34%) Red Hat
11 33 (2.27%) Salesforce.com
12 29 (1.99%) CheckPoint
12 29 (1.99%) Citrix
13 26 (1.79%) CyberArk
14 24 (1.65%) Juniper
15 23 (1.58%) Nokia
15 23 (1.58%) Thycotic
16 21 (1.44%) F5
17 20 (1.38%) ArcSight
410 Telecoms job vacancies Nationwide