Telecoms Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Telecommunications
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 190 176
Rank change year-on-year -30 -14 -4
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 222 566 846
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.46% 1.67% 1.99%
As % of the General category 1.94% 2.73% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 127 421 545
10th Percentile £29,450 £26,250 £30,700
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £81,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -18.18% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,427 20,734 28,142
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 75.33% 61.29% 66.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,555 15,127 18,703
10th Percentile £25,267 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £55,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% -12.50% -

Telecoms
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Telecoms trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Telecoms
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Telecoms.

Telecoms salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Telecoms salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.41%) AWS
2 31 (13.96%) Azure
3 23 (10.36%) SaaS
4 22 (9.91%) GCP
5 19 (8.56%) PaaS
6 11 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.15%) Serverless
8 6 (2.70%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.80%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.80%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (0.90%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.90%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.90%) OCI
11 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.45%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.81%) 5G
2 23 (10.36%) 3GPP
2 23 (10.36%) VoIP
3 14 (6.31%) Broadband
4 11 (4.95%) Firewall
5 9 (4.05%) Network Security
5 9 (4.05%) Unified Communications
6 8 (3.60%) Wireless
7 7 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.70%) Internet
8 6 (2.70%) VPN
9 5 (2.25%) DNS
9 5 (2.25%) MPLS
9 5 (2.25%) NAS
9 5 (2.25%) SAN
10 4 (1.80%) IPv4
10 4 (1.80%) ISDN
11 3 (1.35%) Ethernet
11 3 (1.35%) IP Telephony
12 2 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.80%) MySQL
1 4 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.35%) Big Data
2 3 (1.35%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.35%) Power BI
2 3 (1.35%) Tableau
3 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (0.90%) CouchDB
3 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.45%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (14.86%) Git
2 29 (13.06%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.80%) GitLab
3 4 (1.80%) JIRA
4 3 (1.35%) Maven
5 2 (0.90%) Gradle
6 1 (0.45%) CMake
6 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.45%) Subversion
6 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.45%) WiX
General
1 89 (40.09%) Social Skills
2 75 (33.78%) Finance
3 55 (24.77%) Public Sector
4 52 (23.42%) Electronics
4 52 (23.42%) Marketing
5 48 (21.62%) Manufacturing
6 42 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (10.36%) Law
8 22 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (5.86%) Legal
10 9 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (3.60%) Billing
12 6 (2.70%) Aerospace
13 5 (2.25%) Banking
13 5 (2.25%) Retail
14 3 (1.35%) Games
14 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.90%) Advertising
15 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.90%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 57 (25.68%) Senior
2 21 (9.46%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (8.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 16 (7.21%) Developer
5 15 (6.76%) Architect
6 12 (5.41%) Automation Specialist
6 12 (5.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 11 (4.95%) Tester
8 10 (4.50%) Software Engineer
8 10 (4.50%) Support Engineer
9 9 (4.05%) Account Manager
10 8 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (3.15%) Analyst
11 7 (3.15%) Consultant
11 7 (3.15%) IT Engineer
11 7 (3.15%) IT Support
11 7 (3.15%) IT Support Engineer
12 6 (2.70%) Infrastructure Support
12 6 (2.70%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.56%) Node.js
2 6 (2.70%) RESTful
3 5 (2.25%) AngularJS
3 5 (2.25%) HTML
4 4 (1.80%) CSS
4 4 (1.80%) React
5 3 (1.35%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.90%) .NET
6 2 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (0.90%) Kafka
6 2 (0.90%) Laravel
6 2 (0.90%) pytest
6 2 (0.90%) REST
6 2 (0.90%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.90%) XML
7 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.45%) Java EE
7 1 (0.45%) SOAP
7 1 (0.45%) STL
7 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.91%) Public Cloud
2 19 (8.56%) PMI
3 18 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.86%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.70%) Device Driver
7 6 (2.70%) IoT
8 5 (2.25%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.80%) CCTV
9 4 (1.80%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.90%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 36 (16.22%) Linux
2 31 (13.96%) Windows
3 1 (0.45%) Debian
3 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.45%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.45%) Unix
3 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (26.13%) Cybersecurity
3 47 (21.17%) Business Intelligence
4 46 (20.72%) Programme Management
5 44 (19.82%) Digital Marketing
6 32 (14.41%) Computer Science
6 32 (14.41%) DevOps
7 31 (13.96%) CI/CD
7 31 (13.96%) High Availability
8 28 (12.61%) Agile
8 28 (12.61%) Project Management
9 27 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (11.71%) Risk Management
11 25 (11.26%) Cloud Security
11 25 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (9.01%) Incident Management
12 20 (9.01%) Project Delivery
12 20 (9.01%) Risk Register
12 20 (9.01%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.62%) Python
2 14 (6.31%) C++
3 12 (5.41%) C
3 12 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.95%) SQL
5 10 (4.50%) PHP
6 9 (4.05%) R
7 8 (3.60%) Java
8 7 (3.15%) Bash
9 6 (2.70%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.25%) C#
11 3 (1.35%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.90%) Assembly Language
12 2 (0.90%) Perl
13 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.45%) Go
13 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.45%) ProC
Qualifications
1 46 (20.72%) Degree
2 44 (19.82%) Security Cleared
3 33 (14.86%) DV Cleared
4 19 (8.56%) PMI Certification
5 10 (4.50%) Master's Degree
6 9 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.15%) Chartered Engineer
8 6 (2.70%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.25%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.35%) CISSP
11 2 (0.90%) CCIE
11 2 (0.90%) CCNP
11 2 (0.90%) CCSAS
11 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.90%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.90%) JNCIE
11 2 (0.90%) JNCIP
11 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.81%) NCSC
2 7 (3.15%) QA
3 5 (2.25%) NIST
4 4 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.80%) GDPR
4 4 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.35%) SLA
6 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 2 (0.90%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) ECSS
7 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (4.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.15%) Docker
3 2 (0.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (10.36%) Ansible
2 22 (9.91%) Kubernetes
3 20 (9.01%) Terraform
4 6 (2.70%) Cisco CUCM
5 4 (1.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (20.72%) SAP
2 31 (13.96%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.86%) Cisco
4 5 (2.25%) Google
4 5 (2.25%) VMware
5 4 (1.80%) Oracle
6 3 (1.35%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.35%) Sage
7 2 (0.90%) Informatica
7 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.90%) Xero
8 1 (0.45%) Altera
8 1 (0.45%) Avaya
8 1 (0.45%) BT
8 1 (0.45%) EMC
8 1 (0.45%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.45%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.45%) Meraki
8 1 (0.45%) Remedy
8 1 (0.45%) Siemens