Telecoms Jobs in the UK excluding London

Telecommunications
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 39 144
Rank change year-on-year -74 +105 -31
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 1,751 3,829 1,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.37% 6.59% 2.59%
As % of the General category 4.21% 9.67% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,169 697 1,160
10th Percentile £24,750 £25,875 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £55,250 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Telecoms is in the General Skills 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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 41,581 39,612 44,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.19% 68.19% 60.99%
Number of salaries quoted 26,806 18,240 24,559
10th Percentile £26,043 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
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 Telecoms within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 -29 617 £37,500 -11.76% 139
Midlands -52 288 £42,500 -15.00% 83
South West -61 269 £40,000 -15.79% 85
North of England -115 269 £45,000 - 116
North West -81 175 £42,500 -29.17% 70
West Midlands -54 161 £41,250 -17.50% 46
East of England -64 153 £50,000 -9.09% 60
East Midlands -46 127 £42,500 +4.94% 37
Scotland -117 79 £42,500 - 20
Yorkshire -105 69 £47,500 +11.76% 23
Northern Ireland +9 39 £35,000 -20.00% 11
Wales -61 29 £32,500 +2.60% 13
North East -73 25 £27,500 -42.31% 23
Isle of Man - 8 £37,000 -
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
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:

Application Platforms
1 64 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 40 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.46%) Apache
4 7 (0.40%) nginx
5 4 (0.23%) CMS
5 4 (0.23%) Confluence
5 4 (0.23%) Moodle
6 3 (0.17%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.17%) WordPress
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.057%) IIS
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 132 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 111 (6.34%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.34%) OrCAD
7 5 (0.29%) InfoPath
7 5 (0.29%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.23%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.23%) Simulink
9 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.23%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
5 1 (0.057%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.057%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 174 (9.94%) Azure
2 172 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (3.83%) AWS
4 57 (3.26%) SaaS
5 54 (3.08%) Entra ID
6 39 (2.23%) Power Platform
7 24 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (1.26%) OneDrive
9 20 (1.14%) GitHub
10 19 (1.09%) GCP
11 13 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 12 (0.69%) Mimecast
13 11 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (0.63%) PaaS
14 10 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.34%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.34%) OCI
15 6 (0.34%) Twilio
16 5 (0.29%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (0.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 190 (10.85%) Firewall
2 100 (5.71%) 5G
2 100 (5.71%) Broadband
3 90 (5.14%) Wi-Fi
3 90 (5.14%) Wireless
4 84 (4.80%) VoIP
5 81 (4.63%) VPN
5 81 (4.63%) WAN
6 71 (4.05%) LAN
7 69 (3.94%) TCP/IP
8 65 (3.71%) Internet
9 56 (3.20%) 4G
9 56 (3.20%) DNS
10 43 (2.46%) LTE
11 40 (2.28%) MPLS
12 39 (2.23%) Network Security
13 37 (2.11%) PBX
14 34 (1.94%) DHCP
15 30 (1.71%) Unified Communications
16 29 (1.66%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.11%) Power BI
2 30 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (1.66%) SQL Server
4 20 (1.14%) MySQL
5 11 (0.63%) SQLite
6 9 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
7 8 (0.46%) GIS
8 7 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.34%) Redis
9 6 (0.34%) Tableau
10 4 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.23%) Power Query
11 3 (0.17%) Big Data
11 3 (0.17%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.11%) Impala
12 2 (0.11%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 65 (3.71%) Git
2 32 (1.83%) JIRA
3 24 (1.37%) LabVIEW
4 20 (1.14%) Jenkins
5 17 (0.97%) Eclipse
6 14 (0.80%) Subversion
7 12 (0.69%) Visual Studio
8 10 (0.57%) Trac
9 8 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.40%) GCC
11 6 (0.34%) Maven
12 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.23%) GitLab
12 4 (0.23%) Hudson
12 4 (0.23%) Vagrant
13 3 (0.17%) Rational Rhapsody
13 3 (0.17%) Selenium
14 2 (0.11%) Apache Continuum
14 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 506 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 340 (19.42%) Finance
3 187 (10.68%) Electronics
4 168 (9.59%) Marketing
5 162 (9.25%) Manufacturing
6 160 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
7 150 (8.57%) Public Sector
8 108 (6.17%) Retail
9 84 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
10 64 (3.66%) Legal
11 63 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 59 (3.37%) Law
13 50 (2.86%) Billing
14 47 (2.68%) Local Government
15 45 (2.57%) Military
16 34 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
17 29 (1.66%) Aerospace
18 25 (1.43%) Automotive
19 18 (1.03%) Brand Awareness
20 17 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (8.05%) Support Engineer
2 136 (7.77%) Senior
3 108 (6.17%) Project Manager
4 107 (6.11%) Developer
5 92 (5.25%) Lead
6 85 (4.85%) Analyst
7 82 (4.68%) IT Engineer
8 79 (4.51%) Telecoms Manager
9 73 (4.17%) IT Support
10 71 (4.05%) Business Manager
10 71 (4.05%) Development Manager
11 62 (3.54%) Business Development Manager
12 61 (3.48%) Technical Support
13 58 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
14 57 (3.26%) Team Leader
15 56 (3.20%) Coordinator
16 55 (3.14%) IT Manager
17 54 (3.08%) IT Support Engineer
18 53 (3.03%) Consultant
19 52 (2.97%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.14%) HTML
2 38 (2.17%) CSS
3 31 (1.77%) .NET
4 25 (1.43%) React
5 20 (1.14%) Flask
6 16 (0.91%) Laravel
7 14 (0.80%) AngularJS
8 13 (0.74%) Django
8 13 (0.74%) REST
9 12 (0.69%) .NET Framework
9 12 (0.69%) 802.1X
10 11 (0.63%) WPF
11 10 (0.57%) XML
12 8 (0.46%) HTML5
12 8 (0.46%) Svelte
13 7 (0.40%) LDAP
13 7 (0.40%) Qt
13 7 (0.40%) RESTful
13 7 (0.40%) Vue
14 6 (0.34%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 131 (7.48%) Driving Licence
2 93 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
3 85 (4.85%) Management Information System
4 44 (2.51%) IoT
5 41 (2.34%) CCTV
5 41 (2.34%) Data Centre
6 32 (1.83%) Fibre Optics
7 28 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
8 26 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.48%) Product Ownership
9 22 (1.26%) Acoustics
9 22 (1.26%) Satnav
10 18 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 17 (0.97%) Replication
12 16 (0.91%) FPGA
13 15 (0.86%) Robotics
13 15 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
14 14 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
15 13 (0.74%) Analogue Electronics
15 13 (0.74%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 216 (12.34%) Windows
2 137 (7.82%) Linux
3 110 (6.28%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.57%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (0.86%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (0.69%) CentOS
9 10 (0.57%) Unix
10 9 (0.51%) Android
10 9 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
11 8 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.40%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.40%) VMS
12 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.34%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.23%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
2 252 (14.39%) Customer Service
3 203 (11.59%) Project Management
4 159 (9.08%) Business Intelligence
5 158 (9.02%) Agile
6 146 (8.34%) Digital Marketing
7 144 (8.22%) Programme Management
8 130 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
9 123 (7.02%) Project Delivery
10 105 (6.00%) Customer Experience
11 102 (5.83%) Business Development
12 99 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 98 (5.60%) B2B
14 93 (5.31%) Software Engineering
15 85 (4.85%) CRM
16 83 (4.74%) ITIL
16 83 (4.74%) Mentoring
17 79 (4.51%) Data Management
18 78 (4.45%) Computer Science
19 77 (4.40%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (8.11%) Python
2 91 (5.20%) C
2 91 (5.20%) SQL
3 63 (3.60%) C#
3 63 (3.60%) JavaScript
4 60 (3.43%) C++
5 49 (2.80%) Java
6 26 (1.48%) PHP
6 26 (1.48%) PowerShell
7 20 (1.14%) Embedded C
8 16 (0.91%) Go
9 14 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.69%) T-SQL
11 11 (0.63%) MATLAB
12 10 (0.57%) R
13 9 (0.51%) Assembly Language
13 9 (0.51%) Bash
13 9 (0.51%) Embedded C++
13 9 (0.51%) Perl
14 8 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 318 (18.16%) Degree
2 159 (9.08%) Security Cleared
3 95 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 38 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
5 36 (2.06%) HNC
6 30 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 30 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (1.66%) CCNA
8 27 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.54%) HND
9 25 (1.43%) DBS Check
10 24 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 22 (1.26%) CISSP
12 19 (1.09%) ACCA
12 19 (1.09%) CIMA
12 19 (1.09%) CISM
13 18 (1.03%) A+ Certification
14 14 (0.80%) CCNP
14 14 (0.80%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.40%) SLA
2 57 (3.26%) QA
3 36 (2.06%) GDPR
4 29 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 22 (1.26%) ISO 9001
6 21 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (0.97%) PMO
8 14 (0.80%) NCSC
9 13 (0.74%) GRC
10 12 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 11 (0.63%) NIST
12 10 (0.57%) COSHH
12 10 (0.57%) Data Quality
13 8 (0.46%) NEBOSH
13 8 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.23%) IEC 61131
15 4 (0.23%) JTAG
System Software
1 127 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 83 (4.74%) Hyper-V
3 44 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (2.17%) Firmware
5 37 (2.11%) Docker
6 22 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.91%) pfSense
9 12 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
10 10 (0.57%) NFS
11 6 (0.34%) Terminal Services
11 6 (0.34%) vSphere
12 3 (0.17%) Ceph
12 3 (0.17%) Gluster
12 3 (0.17%) KVM
12 3 (0.17%) oVirt
13 2 (0.11%) HDFS
13 2 (0.11%) Kamailio
14 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.057%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 37 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (1.14%) Ansible
3 19 (1.09%) ZABBIX
4 17 (0.97%) FortiGate
4 17 (0.97%) SCCM
5 16 (0.91%) Grafana
6 15 (0.86%) Kubernetes
7 11 (0.63%) Terraform
8 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 10 (0.57%) SCDPM
9 7 (0.40%) Nessus
10 6 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (0.23%) AirWatch
11 4 (0.23%) Autotask
12 3 (0.17%) Graylog
12 3 (0.17%) Observium
12 3 (0.17%) PaperCut
12 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.17%) Puppet
13 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 362 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 135 (7.71%) SAP
3 99 (5.65%) Cisco
4 74 (4.23%) VMware
5 66 (3.77%) Openreach
6 58 (3.31%) Virgin Media
7 50 (2.86%) Juniper
8 42 (2.40%) NEC
8 42 (2.40%) Veeam
9 39 (2.23%) HP
10 31 (1.77%) BT
10 31 (1.77%) Fortinet
11 30 (1.71%) Aruba
12 28 (1.60%) Oracle
13 24 (1.37%) Salesforce
14 23 (1.31%) Ericsson
15 21 (1.20%) McAfee
16 20 (1.14%) Sage
17 17 (0.97%) Darktrace
17 17 (0.97%) Palo Alto