Hybrid/Remote Telecoms Job Trends

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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 217 193
Rank change year-on-year +57 -24 -7
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 326 240 565
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.65% 1.57% 1.64%
As % of the General category 2.84% 2.10% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 214 123 411
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 11,473 11,411 20,862
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.97% 74.59% 60.53%
Number of salaries quoted 7,481 6,266 15,260
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,751 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -12.50%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Telecoms
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Telecoms
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Telecoms salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Telecoms
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.61%) Apache
2 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.31%) SAS
3 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.61%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (7.06%) AWS
1 23 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (6.44%) Azure
3 14 (4.29%) SaaS
4 11 (3.37%) OpenShift
5 10 (3.07%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.84%) Apigee
6 6 (1.84%) Kong
7 5 (1.53%) GCP
8 3 (0.92%) OCI
8 3 (0.92%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.92%) Serverless
9 2 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.61%) Slack
10 1 (0.31%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.31%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.31%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 51 (15.64%) Broadband
2 45 (13.80%) Firewall
3 30 (9.20%) LAN
4 26 (7.98%) WAN
5 24 (7.36%) Unified Communications
6 20 (6.13%) BGP
6 20 (6.13%) Cisco ASA
6 20 (6.13%) VoIP
7 17 (5.21%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (4.91%) 4G
9 15 (4.60%) MPLS
10 14 (4.29%) VPN
11 13 (3.99%) Wireless
12 12 (3.68%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (3.68%) WebEx
13 11 (3.37%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (3.37%) IOS XR
13 11 (3.37%) Network Security
13 11 (3.37%) VLAN
14 9 (2.76%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (0.92%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.61%) Big Data
3 2 (0.61%) GIS
3 2 (0.61%) Power BI
4 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.31%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.31%) Metadata
4 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.31%) MySQL
4 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.31%) Redshift Spectrum
4 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (6.75%) Git
2 13 (3.99%) GitLab
3 4 (1.23%) JIRA
4 1 (0.31%) CMake
4 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
General
1 153 (46.93%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.71%) Finance
3 38 (11.66%) Legal
4 31 (9.51%) Marketing
5 29 (8.90%) Public Sector
6 28 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (7.67%) Retail
8 21 (6.44%) Banking
8 21 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (5.83%) Games
10 18 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (4.60%) Billing
12 10 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.76%) Electronics
14 7 (2.15%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.23%) Advertising
16 4 (1.23%) Automotive
17 3 (0.92%) Esports
17 3 (0.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 47 (14.42%) Lead
2 44 (13.50%) Senior
3 38 (11.66%) Network Engineer
4 23 (7.06%) Architect
5 21 (6.44%) Consultant
5 21 (6.44%) IT Manager
6 20 (6.13%) Support Engineer
7 18 (5.52%) Category Manager
8 17 (5.21%) Accountant
8 17 (5.21%) Assistant Accountant
9 16 (4.91%) Senior Manager
10 13 (3.99%) Account Manager
10 13 (3.99%) Analyst
10 13 (3.99%) Business Development Manager
10 13 (3.99%) Business Manager
10 13 (3.99%) Development Manager
10 13 (3.99%) IT Engineer
11 12 (3.68%) IT Support
11 12 (3.68%) IT Support Engineer
11 12 (3.68%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.75%) Jinja
2 17 (5.21%) YANG
3 14 (4.29%) JSON
4 11 (3.37%) NETCONF
4 11 (3.37%) YAML
5 9 (2.76%) REST
5 9 (2.76%) XMPP
6 8 (2.45%) XML
7 3 (0.92%) .NET
8 2 (0.61%) Kafka
8 2 (0.61%) SAP CAF
8 2 (0.61%) Web Services
8 2 (0.61%) WSDL
8 2 (0.61%) XSLT
9 1 (0.31%) Django
9 1 (0.31%) FFmpeg
9 1 (0.31%) GStreamer
9 1 (0.31%) RESTful
9 1 (0.31%) WebRTC
9 1 (0.31%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.27%) Onboarding
2 34 (10.43%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (5.52%) Social Media
5 11 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.07%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (2.76%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.76%) FlexPod
8 7 (2.15%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.84%) Replication
10 4 (1.23%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
11 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.92%) NHS
12 2 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.61%) IoT
12 2 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.13%) Linux
2 14 (4.29%) Windows
3 7 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.84%) Unix
5 1 (0.31%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (14.72%) Business Development
2 48 (14.72%) CRM
3 44 (13.50%) Agile
4 39 (11.96%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (11.35%) B2B
6 31 (9.51%) Data Management
7 30 (9.20%) Roadmaps
8 28 (8.59%) Line Management
9 27 (8.28%) Customer Experience
10 26 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (7.98%) Customer Service
10 26 (7.98%) Risk Management
11 25 (7.67%) Regulatory Compliance
11 25 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (7.06%) Contract Negotiation
12 23 (7.06%) Information Security
13 22 (6.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (6.75%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 48 (14.72%) Python
2 7 (2.15%) SQL
3 6 (1.84%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.23%) C#
4 4 (1.23%) C++
5 3 (0.92%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.61%) Java
7 1 (0.31%) Bash
7 1 (0.31%) C
7 1 (0.31%) Go
7 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 33 (10.12%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.82%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.36%) Degree
4 15 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.37%) CCNP
5 11 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.53%) ACCA
7 5 (1.53%) CCNA
7 5 (1.53%) CIMA
7 5 (1.53%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.92%) CCIE
9 3 (0.92%) CCIE Security
9 3 (0.92%) CISM
9 3 (0.92%) CISSP
9 3 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (7.67%) GRC
3 23 (7.06%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.84%) GDPR
5 5 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.53%) QA
5 5 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.61%) NIST
6 2 (0.61%) SLA
6 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) NCSC
7 1 (0.31%) PMO
7 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.76%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (1.84%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (1.84%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.84%) vSphere
5 4 (1.23%) ClearTrust
6 2 (0.61%) Docker
7 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.99%) Ansible
1 13 (3.99%) Terraform
2 10 (3.07%) Grafana
3 9 (2.76%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (1.23%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (15.34%) Cisco
2 47 (14.42%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.83%) Palo Alto
4 17 (5.21%) Fortinet
5 13 (3.99%) VMware
6 12 (3.68%) Juniper
7 11 (3.37%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.76%) CheckPoint
8 9 (2.76%) Splunk
9 8 (2.45%) F5
10 6 (1.84%) NetApp
11 5 (1.53%) Aruba
12 4 (1.23%) Freshdesk
12 4 (1.23%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.92%) Meraki
13 3 (0.92%) SAP
14 2 (0.61%) Facebook
14 2 (0.61%) Oracle
14 2 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow