Hybrid/Remote Telnet Job Trends

Telnet
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Telnet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 446 447
Rank change year-on-year +85 +1 +283
Permanent jobs citing Telnet 11 1 26
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.072% 0.006% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.82% 0.044% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 26
10th Percentile £43,590 - £36,388
25th Percentile £52,725 £29,000 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,600 £30,000 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year +102.00% -39.47% -4.75%
75th Percentile £63,400 £31,000 £57,289
90th Percentile - - £62,500
UK median annual salary £60,600 £56,250 £49,565
% change year-on-year +7.73% +13.49% -4.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Telnet 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 1,347 2,280 2,797
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.78% 12.96% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 931 1,331 2,369
10th Percentile £27,375 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,250
UK median annual salary £37,750 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.44% +7.00% -4.76%

Telnet
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Telnet job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Telnet
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Telnet
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Telnet over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Telnet salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Telnet
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 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DHCP
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (27.27%) FTP
2 3 (27.27%) HTTP
2 3 (27.27%) SMTP
2 3 (27.27%) SNMP
2 3 (27.27%) SSH
2 3 (27.27%) SSL
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) LAN
3 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) WAN
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
1 7 (63.64%) Front Office
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Platform Specialist
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Equities
1 7 (63.64%) Fixed Income
2 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (90.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) ITIL
2 7 (63.64%) Asset Management
2 7 (63.64%) Coaching
2 7 (63.64%) Investment Management
2 7 (63.64%) Order Management
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Charles River
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft