Telecoms Job Trends in the City of London

Telecommunications
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 113 101
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +72
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 33 51 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.42% 1.92% 2.09%
As % of the General category 2.37% 2.80% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 30 23 33
10th Percentile £42,425 £32,250 £46,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -25.93% +1.12%
75th Percentile £82,188 £55,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,750 £87,000
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -25.93% +1.12%

All General Skills
City of London

Telecoms falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,392 1,822 1,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 59.97% 68.63% 61.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,018 1,127 1,517
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,900 £39,085
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +3.57% -1.75% -1.72%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Telecoms relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Telecoms job vacancy trend in the City of London

Telecoms
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Telecoms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the City of London

Telecoms
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the City of London region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
London Bridge - 2 £76,750 -
Telecoms
Central London

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (3.03%) AWS
1 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (3.03%) Azure
1 1 (3.03%) Datadog
1 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
1 1 (3.03%) GCP
1 1 (3.03%) GitHub
1 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Broadband
2 3 (9.09%) IP Telephony
2 3 (9.09%) PBX
2 3 (9.09%) PSTN
2 3 (9.09%) VoIP
3 2 (6.06%) 4G
3 2 (6.06%) BGP
3 2 (6.06%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (6.06%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (6.06%) Internet
3 2 (6.06%) IOS XR
3 2 (6.06%) MPLS
4 1 (3.03%) Firewall
4 1 (3.03%) LAN
4 1 (3.03%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) WAN
4 1 (3.03%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (78.79%) Social Skills
2 12 (36.36%) Law
2 12 (36.36%) Legal
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Senior
2 13 (39.39%) IT Support
3 12 (36.36%) Analyst
3 12 (36.36%) IT Analyst
3 12 (36.36%) IT Support Analyst
3 12 (36.36%) IT Support Specialist
3 12 (36.36%) Support Analyst
3 12 (36.36%) Support Specialist
4 5 (15.15%) Android Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior Android Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior Manager
5 4 (12.12%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Security Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (6.06%) IT Manager
7 2 (6.06%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (6.06%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) REST
1 3 (9.09%) SOAP
1 3 (9.09%) Web Services
2 2 (6.06%) Jinja
2 2 (6.06%) NETCONF
2 2 (6.06%) YANG
3 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (15.15%) Onboarding
3 4 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (9.09%) IVR
4 3 (9.09%) Social Media
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.03%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (42.42%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Android
3 1 (3.03%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) ITIL
2 12 (36.36%) Data Management
2 12 (36.36%) Document Management
3 6 (18.18%) Agile
4 5 (15.15%) AI
4 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (12.12%) Budgeting
5 4 (12.12%) CRM
5 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (12.12%) Line Management
5 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
5 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.12%) Service Management
6 3 (9.09%) Contingency Planning
6 3 (9.09%) Customer Experience
6 3 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 3 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (9.09%) Technical Discovery
6 3 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 3 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (3.03%) Bash
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Degree
2 12 (36.36%) A+ Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Ansible
1 1 (3.03%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (3.03%) Grafana
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco
3 3 (9.09%) Avaya
3 3 (9.09%) Genesys
3 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk