Hybrid/Remote PSTN Job Trends

Public Switched Telecom Network (PSTN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring PSTN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 435 486
Rank change year-on-year +64 +51 +220
Permanent jobs citing PSTN 3 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.037% 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.27% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £90,750 -
25th Percentile - £95,625 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +296.23% -14.33%
75th Percentile - £113,125 £27,250
90th Percentile - £117,250 -
UK median annual salary £40,000 £90,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -55.56% +125.00% +16.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

PSTN 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,400 2,184 2,920
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.24% 13.29% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 881 1,227 2,474
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £71,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -4.76%

PSTN
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PSTN and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PSTN job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

PSTN
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PSTN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PSTN

PSTN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) IP Telephony
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) ISDN
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) RTP
3 1 (33.33%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior VoIP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) IVR
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Discovery
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Avaya
2 2 (66.67%) Genesys
2 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds