Telecoms Job Trends 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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 161 185
Rank change year-on-year +25 +24 +19
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 306 325 303
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.17% 2.09% 1.66%
As % of the General category 3.23% 2.85% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 201 114 232
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,300 £40,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,563 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £80,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £97,500 £88,700
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -13.64%

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 general skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,478 11,387 11,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.21% 73.40% 65.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,821 6,067 9,286
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,028 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% - +3.24%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -4.00%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in London

Telecoms
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Telecoms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 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
Central London +18 35 £57,500 +15.00% 25
West London -14 12 £53,750 -20.37% 5
South London +25 5 £45,000 - 4
North London +4 1 £35,000 -6.67%
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 9 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.63%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.94%) Sketch
5 7 (2.29%) Maya
6 6 (1.96%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.98%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.29%) SAP IBP
1 7 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.65%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 57 (18.63%) Azure
2 52 (16.99%) GCP
3 40 (13.07%) AWS
4 14 (4.58%) SaaS
5 12 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.59%) GitHub
6 11 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (2.94%) Figma
7 9 (2.94%) PaaS
8 8 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (2.61%) Datadog
9 6 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.96%) IaaS
9 6 (1.96%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.63%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.31%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.31%) Cloud Run
11 4 (1.31%) Google Compute Engine
11 4 (1.31%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.50%) Broadband
2 23 (7.52%) Firewall
3 15 (4.90%) LAN
4 14 (4.58%) WAN
5 13 (4.25%) VoIP
6 11 (3.59%) SD-WAN
7 10 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (2.94%) VPN
8 9 (2.94%) Wireless
8 9 (2.94%) Wireshark
9 8 (2.61%) 4G
9 8 (2.61%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (2.61%) Ethernet
10 7 (2.29%) BGP
10 7 (2.29%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (2.29%) IOS XR
10 7 (2.29%) IP Telephony
10 7 (2.29%) MPLS
11 5 (1.63%) DNS
11 5 (1.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.25%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.59%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.94%) RDBMS
4 8 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.29%) SAP BW
6 6 (1.96%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.98%) Redis
8 2 (0.65%) KNIME
8 2 (0.65%) Metadata
8 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.65%) Power BI
8 2 (0.65%) QlikView
8 2 (0.65%) Tableau
9 1 (0.33%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (4.58%) Git
1 14 (4.58%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.63%) GitLab
3 4 (1.31%) JIRA
3 4 (1.31%) Postman
4 3 (0.98%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.98%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
General
1 129 (42.16%) Social Skills
2 109 (35.62%) Finance
3 77 (25.16%) Marketing
4 68 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 66 (21.57%) Manufacturing
6 61 (19.93%) Electronics
7 39 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (11.76%) Law
9 23 (7.52%) Legal
10 20 (6.54%) Banking
10 20 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (5.56%) Billing
12 15 (4.90%) Games
12 15 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (2.94%) German Language
14 8 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (2.29%) Automotive
16 4 (1.31%) Retail
17 3 (0.98%) Military
17 3 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (24.84%) Senior
2 30 (9.80%) Analyst
3 29 (9.48%) IT Support
4 25 (8.17%) Lead
5 23 (7.52%) Architect
5 23 (7.52%) Support Analyst
6 20 (6.54%) Network Engineer
7 19 (6.21%) IT Analyst
7 19 (6.21%) IT Support Analyst
8 17 (5.56%) Senior Manager
8 17 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 16 (5.23%) Security Engineer
9 16 (5.23%) Support Specialist
10 15 (4.90%) Consultant
11 14 (4.58%) IT Manager
12 13 (4.25%) Android Engineer
12 13 (4.25%) Senior Android Engineer
12 13 (4.25%) Senior Security Engineer
12 13 (4.25%) Telecoms Manager
13 12 (3.92%) IT Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.82%) REST
2 25 (8.17%) RESTful
3 22 (7.19%) Kafka
4 17 (5.56%) gRPC
4 17 (5.56%) WebSockets
5 14 (4.58%) Spring
6 13 (4.25%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.59%) OAuth
8 9 (2.94%) Spring Cloud
9 8 (2.61%) Middleware
9 8 (2.61%) Node.js
9 8 (2.61%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.29%) Jinja
10 7 (2.29%) NETCONF
10 7 (2.29%) YANG
11 6 (1.96%) JWT
11 6 (1.96%) Spring Integration
11 6 (1.96%) Spring MVC
12 5 (1.63%) Flask
12 5 (1.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.84%) Onboarding
2 23 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.86%) Data Centre
3 21 (6.86%) Social Media
4 18 (5.88%) Mobile App
5 17 (5.56%) Cloud Native
6 16 (5.23%) AI Agents
7 13 (4.25%) Management Information System
8 12 (3.92%) Video Conferencing
9 11 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.29%) Driving Licence
11 7 (2.29%) PMI
11 7 (2.29%) Reinsurance
12 6 (1.96%) IVR
13 4 (1.31%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
14 3 (0.98%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.98%) TM Forum
14 3 (0.98%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 42 (13.73%) Windows
2 28 (9.15%) Android
3 17 (5.56%) Linux
4 7 (2.29%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.29%) Unix
5 4 (1.31%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.31%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.65%) VMS
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (22.55%) AI
2 63 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
3 62 (20.26%) Programme Management
4 61 (19.93%) Digital Marketing
5 57 (18.63%) Agile
6 55 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (13.73%) User Experience
8 41 (13.40%) CRM
9 40 (13.07%) CI/CD
9 40 (13.07%) DevOps
10 39 (12.75%) Computer Science
11 38 (12.42%) Machine Learning
12 37 (12.09%) Business Development
12 37 (12.09%) Containerisation
12 37 (12.09%) ITIL
13 35 (11.44%) Microservices
14 34 (11.11%) Project Management
15 33 (10.78%) Mentoring
16 29 (9.48%) Analytics
16 29 (9.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 62 (20.26%) Python
2 29 (9.48%) SQL
3 23 (7.52%) C++
4 22 (7.19%) Java
5 18 (5.88%) Bash
5 18 (5.88%) Go
6 17 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.27%) C#
8 10 (3.27%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.61%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.98%) PHP
10 3 (0.98%) R
11 2 (0.65%) C
12 1 (0.33%) Bicep
12 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.33%) Rust
12 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (27.78%) Degree
2 34 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (7.19%) Security Cleared
4 21 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.88%) PMI Certification
6 16 (5.23%) DV Cleared
7 12 (3.92%) A+ Certification
7 12 (3.92%) Master's Degree
8 11 (3.59%) CISSP
8 11 (3.59%) PMP
9 10 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.63%) CCNP
11 4 (1.31%) CCIE
12 3 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.98%) CCSP
12 3 (0.98%) GCIH
13 2 (0.65%) CCSA
13 2 (0.65%) CCSE
13 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.17%) QA
2 23 (7.52%) GDPR
3 12 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.63%) EU AI Act
7 5 (1.63%) PMO
8 4 (1.31%) GAAP
9 3 (0.98%) NIST
10 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (11.76%) Docker
2 16 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (14.05%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.86%) Terraform
3 12 (3.92%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.59%) Ansible
5 8 (2.61%) Grafana
5 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.98%) Nmap
7 1 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 66 (21.57%) SAP
2 45 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 36 (11.76%) Cisco
4 26 (8.50%) Google
5 19 (6.21%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.27%) CheckPoint
6 10 (3.27%) Meraki
7 9 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.61%) Palantir
8 8 (2.61%) SolarWinds
9 7 (2.29%) Ariba
9 7 (2.29%) Avaya
10 6 (1.96%) Adobe
11 5 (1.63%) Ericsson
11 5 (1.63%) Genesys
11 5 (1.63%) Mavenir
11 5 (1.63%) Nokia
11 5 (1.63%) Splunk
12 3 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.98%) Zscaler