Telecommunications
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies. 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 132 66 190
Rank change year-on-year -66 +124 -56
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 2,167 4,637 3,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.11% 4.76% 2.13%
As % of the General category 3.59% 7.01% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,488 1,161 2,062
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,750 £29,775
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 60,283 66,144 108,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.75% 67.94% 64.98%
Number of salaries quoted 39,987 35,943 51,825
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,426 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the UK

Telecoms
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Telecoms.

Salary trend for Telecoms in the UK

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the UK

Telecoms
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the UK 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
England -66 1,934 £45,000 -21.74% 687
UK excluding London -74 1,751 £40,000 -11.11% 509
South East -29 617 £37,500 -11.76% 139
Work from Home -7 554 £50,000 -9.09% 236
London -41 313 £64,500 -7.86% 183
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 68 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.15%) Skype for Business
4 11 (0.51%) Apache
5 7 (0.32%) Confluence
5 7 (0.32%) nginx
6 5 (0.23%) CMS
7 4 (0.18%) IIS
7 4 (0.18%) Moodle
7 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.14%) WordPress
9 1 (0.046%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.046%) WebSphere
Applications
1 158 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 142 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.28%) OrCAD
9 5 (0.23%) InfoPath
10 4 (0.18%) Doxygen
10 4 (0.18%) Simulink
11 2 (0.092%) Fusion 360
12 1 (0.046%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.046%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.046%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.18%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.092%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
4 2 (0.092%) Summit
5 1 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.046%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 239 (11.03%) Azure
2 211 (9.74%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (5.17%) AWS
4 67 (3.09%) SaaS
5 56 (2.58%) Entra ID
6 45 (2.08%) Power Platform
7 37 (1.71%) GCP
8 28 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (1.02%) GitHub
9 22 (1.02%) OneDrive
10 19 (0.88%) IaaS
11 15 (0.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 15 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (0.69%) PaaS
12 14 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (0.65%) Mimecast
13 12 (0.55%) Amazon S3
14 11 (0.51%) Serverless
15 7 (0.32%) Power Automate
16 6 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 215 (9.92%) Firewall
2 119 (5.49%) WAN
3 112 (5.17%) Broadband
4 111 (5.12%) 5G
4 111 (5.12%) Wireless
5 110 (5.08%) VPN
6 108 (4.98%) LAN
6 108 (4.98%) VoIP
7 106 (4.89%) Internet
8 103 (4.75%) TCP/IP
9 99 (4.57%) Wi-Fi
10 84 (3.88%) DNS
11 64 (2.95%) MPLS
12 59 (2.72%) Network Security
13 58 (2.68%) 4G
14 49 (2.26%) Unified Communications
15 43 (1.98%) LTE
15 43 (1.98%) PBX
16 42 (1.94%) DHCP
17 40 (1.85%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (2.03%) SQL Server
2 42 (1.94%) MySQL
3 41 (1.89%) Power BI
4 31 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 30 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (1.02%) NoSQL
7 14 (0.65%) Redis
8 13 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.51%) SQLite
10 9 (0.42%) DynamoDB
10 9 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
11 8 (0.37%) GIS
12 7 (0.32%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.32%) Tableau
13 6 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.18%) Big Data
14 4 (0.18%) Power Query
15 3 (0.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 69 (3.18%) Git
2 48 (2.22%) JIRA
3 29 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.11%) LabVIEW
5 17 (0.78%) Eclipse
5 17 (0.78%) Visual Studio
6 15 (0.69%) GitLab
7 14 (0.65%) Subversion
8 10 (0.46%) Trac
9 8 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
9 8 (0.37%) Vagrant
10 7 (0.32%) GCC
11 6 (0.28%) Maven
12 5 (0.23%) Hudson
13 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.18%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.18%) Selenium
14 3 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
15 2 (0.092%) Apache Continuum
15 2 (0.092%) WebDriver
General
1 627 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 455 (21.00%) Finance
3 234 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (10.57%) Electronics
5 216 (9.97%) Marketing
6 209 (9.64%) Manufacturing
7 203 (9.37%) Public Sector
8 125 (5.77%) Retail
9 89 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
10 77 (3.55%) Legal
11 73 (3.37%) Law
12 66 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 65 (3.00%) Billing
14 64 (2.95%) Automotive
15 50 (2.31%) Local Government
15 50 (2.31%) Military
16 46 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
17 41 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
18 34 (1.57%) Aerospace
19 20 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 201 (9.28%) Senior
2 172 (7.94%) Support Engineer
3 160 (7.38%) Developer
4 135 (6.23%) Lead
5 111 (5.12%) Project Manager
6 100 (4.61%) Analyst
7 95 (4.38%) Network Engineer
8 87 (4.01%) Telecoms Manager
9 85 (3.92%) IT Engineer
10 84 (3.88%) Development Manager
11 82 (3.78%) IT Support
12 80 (3.69%) Business Manager
13 73 (3.37%) Consultant
14 71 (3.28%) Business Development Manager
14 71 (3.28%) IT Manager
15 68 (3.14%) Team Leader
16 67 (3.09%) Systems Engineer
17 65 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 62 (2.86%) Technical Support
19 57 (2.63%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (2.72%) HTML
2 46 (2.12%) .NET
3 45 (2.08%) CSS
4 41 (1.89%) React
5 28 (1.29%) REST
6 25 (1.15%) Laravel
7 24 (1.11%) YAML
8 22 (1.02%) AngularJS
9 21 (0.97%) XML
10 20 (0.92%) Flask
11 19 (0.88%) LDAP
11 19 (0.88%) SOAP
11 19 (0.88%) WPF
12 18 (0.83%) Node.js
13 17 (0.78%) .NET Framework
14 16 (0.74%) JSON
14 16 (0.74%) NETCONF
15 14 (0.65%) 802.1X
15 14 (0.65%) Svelte
15 14 (0.65%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 141 (6.51%) Driving Licence
2 118 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
3 109 (5.03%) Management Information System
4 70 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 57 (2.63%) IoT
6 49 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
7 48 (2.22%) CCTV
8 36 (1.66%) Fibre Optics
8 36 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 33 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
10 29 (1.34%) Product Ownership
11 23 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.02%) Acoustics
12 22 (1.02%) Satnav
13 20 (0.92%) Robotics
14 17 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (0.78%) Operational Technology
14 17 (0.78%) Replication
15 16 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
15 16 (0.74%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 295 (13.61%) Windows
2 201 (9.28%) Linux
3 132 (6.09%) Windows Server
4 72 (3.32%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.34%) Windows 7
6 27 (1.25%) CentOS
7 25 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 23 (1.06%) Unix
9 22 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (0.42%) Android
13 9 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
14 8 (0.37%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
15 7 (0.32%) VMS
15 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.28%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
2 294 (13.57%) Customer Service
3 233 (10.75%) Project Management
4 226 (10.43%) Agile
5 200 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
6 183 (8.44%) Programme Management
7 180 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
7 180 (8.31%) Digital Marketing
8 147 (6.78%) Project Delivery
9 139 (6.41%) Mentoring
10 137 (6.32%) ITIL
11 136 (6.28%) Customer Experience
12 130 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 122 (5.63%) Business Development
14 114 (5.26%) Computer Science
15 112 (5.17%) Software Engineering
16 104 (4.80%) B2B
17 103 (4.75%) Data Management
18 101 (4.66%) Stakeholder Management
19 96 (4.43%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 172 (7.94%) Python
2 121 (5.58%) SQL
3 99 (4.57%) C
4 90 (4.15%) JavaScript
5 83 (3.83%) C#
6 62 (2.86%) C++
6 62 (2.86%) Java
7 41 (1.89%) PowerShell
8 38 (1.75%) PHP
9 29 (1.34%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.06%) Bash
11 22 (1.02%) Go
11 22 (1.02%) Perl
12 20 (0.92%) Embedded C
13 16 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 16 (0.74%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.60%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.51%) MATLAB
15 11 (0.51%) R
16 10 (0.46%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 461 (21.27%) Degree
2 175 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 104 (4.80%) SC Cleared
4 61 (2.81%) Master's Degree
5 52 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
6 48 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (1.94%) HNC
8 38 (1.75%) CCNA
9 36 (1.66%) DBS Check
9 36 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 34 (1.57%) CISSP
11 33 (1.52%) HND
12 32 (1.48%) MBA
12 32 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 28 (1.29%) CISM
14 26 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 25 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 24 (1.11%) A+ Certification
17 21 (0.97%) CCNP
18 19 (0.88%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.15%) SLA
2 81 (3.74%) QA
3 45 (2.08%) GDPR
4 33 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 28 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.06%) NIST
7 22 (1.02%) ISO 9001
7 22 (1.02%) NCSC
8 21 (0.97%) Accessibility
9 17 (0.78%) PMO
10 16 (0.74%) GRC
11 15 (0.69%) Data Quality
12 12 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 10 (0.46%) COSHH
14 9 (0.42%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.37%) NEBOSH
16 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.23%) ITGC
18 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 139 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 87 (4.01%) Hyper-V
3 65 (3.00%) Docker
4 55 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 38 (1.75%) Firmware
6 27 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.74%) pfSense
9 12 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.55%) NFS
10 7 (0.32%) vSphere
11 6 (0.28%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.18%) KVM
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) Gluster
13 3 (0.14%) oVirt
14 2 (0.092%) HDFS
14 2 (0.092%) Kamailio
15 1 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.046%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (1.71%) Ansible
3 27 (1.25%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.20%) Grafana
5 21 (0.97%) Terraform
6 20 (0.92%) ZABBIX
7 18 (0.83%) SCCM
8 17 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 12 (0.55%) HAProxy
9 12 (0.55%) Puppet
10 11 (0.51%) Nagios
11 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.46%) Nessus
11 10 (0.46%) SCDPM
11 10 (0.46%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.42%) Graphite
13 6 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 5 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.18%) AirWatch
15 4 (0.18%) Autotask
Vendors
1 460 (21.23%) Microsoft
2 170 (7.84%) SAP
3 159 (7.34%) Cisco
4 86 (3.97%) VMware
5 75 (3.46%) Juniper
6 67 (3.09%) Openreach
7 58 (2.68%) Virgin Media
8 57 (2.63%) Fortinet
9 43 (1.98%) BT
9 43 (1.98%) Veeam
10 42 (1.94%) HP
10 42 (1.94%) NEC
11 38 (1.75%) Oracle
12 31 (1.43%) Aruba
13 29 (1.34%) Ericsson
13 29 (1.34%) Salesforce
14 28 (1.29%) Apple
15 25 (1.15%) Polycom
16 21 (0.97%) McAfee
16 21 (0.97%) Palo Alto