GSM Jobs in the UK excluding London

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GSM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GSM over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 722 705 822
Rank change year-on-year -17 +117 -155
Permanent jobs citing GSM 40 28 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.056% 0.047% 0.040%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 0.26% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15 18 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £32,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 -
90th Percentile £67,000 £74,000 -
UK median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

GSM is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,755 10,813 11,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.62% 18.34% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7,073 4,698 6,479
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,680
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

GSM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GSM in the UK excluding London

GSM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GSM in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for GSM in the UK excluding London

GSM
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GSM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GSM in the UK excluding London

GSM
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GSM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
South East +3 23 £60,000 +48.15% 5
East of England +9 8 £38,000 -41.54% 5
South West - 5 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £62,500 - 1
Midlands - 4 £62,500 - 1
GSM
UK

GSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) Azure
1 5 (12.50%) GCP
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 33 (82.50%) Bluetooth
2 31 (77.50%) LTE
2 31 (77.50%) Wi-Fi
3 26 (65.00%) Wireless
4 23 (57.50%) 5G
4 23 (57.50%) UMTS
5 22 (55.00%) ISDN
5 22 (55.00%) PSTN
6 9 (22.50%) 4G
7 8 (20.00%) 3G
7 8 (20.00%) GPRS
8 5 (12.50%) Firewall
8 5 (12.50%) LAN
8 5 (12.50%) MPLS
8 5 (12.50%) NetScaler
8 5 (12.50%) Network Security
8 5 (12.50%) PABX
8 5 (12.50%) VLAN
8 5 (12.50%) WAN
8 5 (12.50%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 22 (55.00%) LabVIEW
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (57.50%) Telecoms
2 22 (55.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Automotive
5 2 (5.00%) Electronics
6 1 (2.50%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Hardware Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Hardware Test Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Technical Support
3 8 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Hardware Technician
4 5 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
6 3 (7.50%) Associate Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) QA Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Quality Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Telematics Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) QA Technician
7 2 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior FPGA Design Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Test Technician
Miscellaneous
1 22 (55.00%) Acoustics
1 22 (55.00%) Satnav
2 2 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.50%) FPGA
3 1 (2.50%) IoT
3 1 (2.50%) Verilog
3 1 (2.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
1 7 (17.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (65.00%) Agile
2 22 (55.00%) Coaching
2 22 (55.00%) Critical Thinking
2 22 (55.00%) Data Management
2 22 (55.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (55.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (7.50%) Analytics
4 3 (7.50%) Computer Science
4 3 (7.50%) Customer Service
4 3 (7.50%) Embedded Software Development
4 3 (7.50%) Multithreading
4 3 (7.50%) Network Optimisation
4 3 (7.50%) Scrum
4 3 (7.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (7.50%) Telematics
5 2 (5.00%) Validation
6 1 (2.50%) PLM
6 1 (2.50%) Programme Management
6 1 (2.50%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (55.00%) Python
2 5 (12.50%) C
3 1 (2.50%) C++
3 1 (2.50%) Embedded C
3 1 (2.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (62.50%) Degree
2 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) Automotive SPICE
2 3 (7.50%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Nagios
1 5 (12.50%) OfficeScan
1 5 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 5 (12.50%) Centreon
1 5 (12.50%) CheckPoint
1 5 (12.50%) Cisco
1 5 (12.50%) Fortinet
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) EMC
3 1 (2.50%) SAP
3 1 (2.50%) Xilinx