Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring TETRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited TETRA over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 860 972
Rank change year-on-year +160 +112 +239
Permanent jobs citing TETRA 17 34 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.034% 0.009%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.20% 0.25% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 9
10th Percentile - £36,250 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,813 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +80.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,188 £38,750
90th Percentile - £72,500 £40,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +80.00% -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

TETRA 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 8,582 13,531 15,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.57% 13.64% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,313 9,431 7,998
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -3.23%

TETRA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for TETRA in the UK

TETRA
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for TETRA in the UK

TETRA
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TETRA within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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
UK excluding London +157 17 £70,000 +3.70% 22
England +144 17 £70,000 +3.70% 26
Midlands +77 8 - - 3
North of England +60 8 - - 6
East Midlands +49 8 - - 2
Yorkshire +73 5 - - 1
North West -3 3 - - 5
East of England +37 1 £70,000 +3.70% 7

TETRA
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 9 (52.94%) Revit
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) LTE
General
1 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Senior
2 9 (52.94%) Senior Technician
3 4 (23.53%) Design Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Design Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Associate Director
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Director
5 1 (5.88%) Android Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Android SDK
1 1 (5.88%) JNI
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (5.88%) Android Development
2 1 (5.88%) Event-Driven
2 1 (5.88%) Multithreading
2 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (5.88%) Power Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) C++
1 1 (5.88%) Java