Telecoms Jobs in London

Telecommunications
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 197 217
Rank change year-on-year +38 +20 -13
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 297 354 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.20% 1.58% 1.69%
As % of the General category 2.88% 2.39% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 112 268 410
10th Percentile £40,575 £32,500 £39,525
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £92,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% -18.18% +1.85%

All General Skills
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 common skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10,320 14,818 27,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 76.52% 66.29% 70.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,604 11,107 18,482
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £54,991
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £71,495 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -3.39% +5.71%
75th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £53,500 £61,180
% change year-on-year +8.41% -12.55% +1.97%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in London over the 6 months to 24 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the London region over the 6 months to 24 March 2025. 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
Central London +11 59 £50,000 - 12
West London +22 22 £70,000 +26.26% 22
South London 0 20 - - 3
East London +17 9 £31,000 -32.61% 14
North London - 3 - - 1
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.35%) SAS
3 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 27 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.69%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.35%) SPSS
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.34%) Maya
6 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.37%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (12.46%) Azure
2 24 (8.08%) AWS
3 22 (7.41%) GCP
4 15 (5.05%) PaaS
4 15 (5.05%) SaaS
5 9 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.02%) IaaS
6 6 (2.02%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.35%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.01%) IBM Watson
9 2 (0.67%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (0.67%) Asana
9 2 (0.67%) ChatGPT
9 2 (0.67%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.67%) Slack
10 1 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.34%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 65 (21.89%) Intrusion Detection
2 25 (8.42%) Network Security
3 21 (7.07%) Firewall
4 20 (6.73%) LAN
5 16 (5.39%) TCP/IP
6 13 (4.38%) WAN
7 11 (3.70%) Internet
8 10 (3.37%) VoIP
9 9 (3.03%) DNS
9 9 (3.03%) Link 16
9 9 (3.03%) Tactical Data Link
10 8 (2.69%) BGP
10 8 (2.69%) Unified Communications
10 8 (2.69%) VLAN
11 7 (2.36%) OSPF
11 7 (2.36%) RS-232
11 7 (2.36%) RS-485
12 6 (2.02%) HTTP
12 6 (2.02%) SMTP
12 6 (2.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.69%) NoSQL
2 7 (2.36%) Big Data
2 7 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.36%) RDBMS
2 7 (2.36%) Relational Database
2 7 (2.36%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.02%) Power BI
4 5 (1.68%) MySQL
5 4 (1.35%) Apache Hive
5 4 (1.35%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.01%) GIS
6 3 (1.01%) Metadata
6 3 (1.01%) QlikView
7 2 (0.67%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.67%) Tableau
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.34%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.34%) DB2
8 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (4.04%) Git
2 9 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.68%) JIRA
4 3 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) Gradle
5 1 (0.34%) Maven
5 1 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 141 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 139 (46.80%) Finance
3 89 (29.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (14.48%) Law
6 41 (13.80%) Marketing
7 37 (12.46%) Manufacturing
8 33 (11.11%) Banking
9 30 (10.10%) Retail
10 26 (8.75%) Public Sector
11 21 (7.07%) Electronics
12 20 (6.73%) Legal
13 17 (5.72%) Games
14 13 (4.38%) Advertising
14 13 (4.38%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (4.04%) Military
16 11 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
19 8 (2.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 81 (27.27%) Architect
2 69 (23.23%) Senior
3 67 (22.56%) Security Architect
4 32 (10.77%) Analyst
5 19 (6.40%) Network Engineer
6 17 (5.72%) Developer
7 16 (5.39%) IT Support
8 15 (5.05%) IT Analyst
8 15 (5.05%) IT Support Analyst
8 15 (5.05%) Support Analyst
8 15 (5.05%) Support Specialist
9 14 (4.71%) Automation Engineer
9 14 (4.71%) IT Support Specialist
10 13 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (4.38%) Risk Manager
10 13 (4.38%) Technology Risk Manager
11 11 (3.70%) Field Engineer
11 11 (3.70%) Security Engineer
11 11 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (3.37%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (20.88%) HTML
2 8 (2.69%) Node.js
2 8 (2.69%) RESTful
3 7 (2.36%) FastAPI
3 7 (2.36%) Flask
3 7 (2.36%) REST
4 4 (1.35%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.01%) pytest
6 2 (0.67%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (0.67%) Android SDK
6 2 (0.67%) iOS SDK
6 2 (0.67%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (0.67%) JSON
6 2 (0.67%) XML
7 1 (0.34%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.34%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.34%) Kafka
7 1 (0.34%) Middleware
7 1 (0.34%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 89 (29.97%) Management Information System
2 63 (21.21%) Cyberattack
3 23 (7.74%) Blockchain
3 23 (7.74%) Data Centre
3 23 (7.74%) Robotics
4 16 (5.39%) Video Conferencing
5 9 (3.03%) IoT
5 9 (3.03%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.36%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.36%) PACS
7 6 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.01%) Cybercrime
9 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.01%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.01%) Over-the-Top Content
9 3 (1.01%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.78%) Windows
2 25 (8.42%) Linux
3 9 (3.03%) Android
4 6 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.68%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.01%) Android TV
7 3 (1.01%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.67%) Unix
9 1 (0.34%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) MVS
9 1 (0.34%) Rocky
9 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (37.71%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (36.03%) Artificial Intelligence
3 94 (31.65%) Information Security
4 90 (30.30%) Mentoring
5 88 (29.63%) Creative Thinking
5 88 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
6 81 (27.27%) Risk Management
7 76 (25.59%) Incident Response
8 72 (24.24%) Security Architecture
9 68 (22.90%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 68 (22.90%) Threat Intelligence
10 65 (21.89%) Digital Forensics
10 65 (21.89%) Security Testing
11 64 (21.55%) Threat Modelling
12 46 (15.49%) Analytics
13 45 (15.15%) Agile
14 30 (10.10%) Change Management
15 29 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
16 28 (9.43%) Data Analytics
17 26 (8.75%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 52 (17.51%) Python
2 20 (6.73%) R
3 16 (5.39%) SQL
4 10 (3.37%) Bash
5 8 (2.69%) C
6 4 (1.35%) C++
6 4 (1.35%) Java
6 4 (1.35%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.01%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.67%) Perl
8 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.67%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.34%) Assembly Language
9 1 (0.34%) Go
9 1 (0.34%) JCL
9 1 (0.34%) PHP
9 1 (0.34%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 90 (30.30%) Degree
2 87 (29.29%) Security Cleared
3 75 (25.25%) DV Cleared
4 29 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
5 27 (9.09%) CCNP
6 18 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.71%) A+ Certification
8 13 (4.38%) CCIE
9 11 (3.70%) CCNA
10 10 (3.37%) CCSE
10 10 (3.37%) CISA
10 10 (3.37%) CISSP
10 10 (3.37%) ISACA
11 8 (2.69%) CISM
11 8 (2.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (2.69%) Master's Degree
12 7 (2.36%) GSEC
12 7 (2.36%) SC Cleared
12 7 (2.36%) SSCP
13 5 (1.68%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.73%) ITGC
2 13 (4.38%) QA
3 7 (2.36%) MIL-STD-1553
4 6 (2.02%) NIST
5 5 (1.68%) GDPR
5 5 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.35%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 2 (0.67%) NCSC
8 2 (0.67%) SLA
9 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.34%) ISAE 3402
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.34%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (3.37%) Docker
2 9 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (6.40%) Terraform
2 17 (5.72%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.38%) Ansible
4 4 (1.35%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (1.01%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 3 (1.01%) SCCM
5 3 (1.01%) WSUS
6 2 (0.67%) Cisco UCCX
7 1 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.34%) Opsview
7 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.46%) Cisco
3 32 (10.77%) SAP
4 19 (6.40%) Google
5 16 (5.39%) F5
6 15 (5.05%) Oracle
7 13 (4.38%) CheckPoint
8 10 (3.37%) Arista
8 10 (3.37%) Palo Alto
9 9 (3.03%) VMware
10 8 (2.69%) Fortinet
11 7 (2.36%) BT
12 6 (2.02%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.68%) Juniper
14 4 (1.35%) Dell
14 4 (1.35%) HP
14 4 (1.35%) IBM
14 4 (1.35%) Openreach
14 4 (1.35%) SolarWinds
14 4 (1.35%) Vertica