Telecoms Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Telecommunications
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 93 57
Rank change year-on-year +17 -36 -23
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 143 106 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.91% 2.81% 3.81%
As % of the General category 4.25% 3.80% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 101 48 34
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,000 £27,875
25th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,608 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -24.30% +7.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £78,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,500 £89,400
South East median annual salary £50,000 £36,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +38.89% -20.00% -

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,367 2,788 2,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 45.05% 73.99% 50.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,299 996 907
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,608 £51,242
Median % change year-on-year +9.63% -10.99% -2.40%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £66,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,625 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Telecoms
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Telecoms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Telecoms in the Thames Valley

Telecoms
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Berkshire +35 81 £55,000 +52.78% 61
Buckinghamshire +4 46 £30,000 -26.48% 24
Oxfordshire -38 16 £52,500 -19.23% 18
Telecoms
South East

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.90%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.19%) Azure
2 8 (5.59%) SaaS
3 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.80%) AWS
4 4 (2.80%) GCP
5 2 (1.40%) GitHub
5 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.70%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (0.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.70%) Contentsquare
6 1 (0.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.70%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.70%) IaaS
6 1 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.69%) 5G
1 21 (14.69%) Broadband
2 12 (8.39%) Wireless
3 7 (4.90%) Ethernet
3 7 (4.90%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (4.20%) VoIP
5 5 (3.50%) Unified Communications
6 4 (2.80%) Internet
6 4 (2.80%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.80%) WAN
7 2 (1.40%) 4G
7 2 (1.40%) Firewall
7 2 (1.40%) LAN
7 2 (1.40%) Network Security
7 2 (1.40%) WLAN
8 1 (0.70%) 2G
8 1 (0.70%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.70%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.40%) Power BI
2 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (4.20%) JIRA
2 2 (1.40%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.70%) MLflow
General
1 29 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.69%) Finance
3 18 (12.59%) Legal
4 17 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.09%) Aerospace
6 12 (8.39%) Law
7 11 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (6.29%) Electronics
9 8 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.50%) Billing
10 5 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.50%) Marketing
10 5 (3.50%) Military
11 4 (2.80%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.80%) Retail
12 3 (2.10%) Local Government
12 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.70%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (9.79%) Field Engineer
2 13 (9.09%) Account Manager
2 13 (9.09%) Corporate Account Manager
2 13 (9.09%) Internal Account Manager
3 12 (8.39%) Senior
4 11 (7.69%) Network Manager
4 11 (7.69%) Sales Engineer
5 9 (6.29%) IT Manager
5 9 (6.29%) Sales Executive
6 8 (5.59%) Telecoms Manager
7 7 (4.90%) Architect
8 6 (4.20%) Administrator
8 6 (4.20%) CAD Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Developer
8 6 (4.20%) Project Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.20%) Technical Manager
8 6 (4.20%) Telecoms Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) 1st Line Support Technician
9 5 (3.50%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.10%) AngularJS
1 3 (2.10%) CSS
1 3 (2.10%) HTML
1 3 (2.10%) OAuth
1 3 (2.10%) REST
1 3 (2.10%) SAML
1 3 (2.10%) SOAP
2 2 (1.40%) Smarty
3 1 (0.70%) LDAP
3 1 (0.70%) PySpark
3 1 (0.70%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 12 (8.39%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.50%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.50%) IoT
4 4 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.80%) CMDB
4 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.10%) Handset
5 3 (2.10%) Learning Management System
5 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.10%) TM Forum
6 1 (0.70%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.70%) Digital TV
6 1 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.70%) Pricing Data
6 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.70%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.90%) Windows
2 1 (0.70%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (13.29%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (10.49%) AI
5 14 (9.79%) Decision-Making
5 14 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (9.09%) CRM
6 13 (9.09%) Customer Experience
6 13 (9.09%) Project Management
7 10 (6.99%) Customer Service
7 10 (6.99%) Line Management
7 10 (6.99%) Presales
8 9 (6.29%) Project Delivery
8 9 (6.29%) Supplier Management
9 8 (5.59%) Customer Engagement
10 7 (4.90%) Analytics
10 7 (4.90%) Business Development
10 7 (4.90%) DevOps
10 7 (4.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (4.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.20%) Java
2 4 (2.80%) Kotlin
3 3 (2.10%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.40%) Python
5 1 (0.70%) C
5 1 (0.70%) C++
5 1 (0.70%) Rust
5 1 (0.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (11.19%) Degree
2 8 (5.59%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.50%) PMI Certification
3 5 (3.50%) PMP
4 2 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (1.40%) CCSP
4 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.40%) CISSP
4 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.70%) ACCA
5 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.70%) CCSK
5 1 (0.70%) CIMA
5 1 (0.70%) CIPD
5 1 (0.70%) City & Guilds
5 1 (0.70%) HND
5 1 (0.70%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.29%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.90%) GDPR
3 6 (4.20%) SLA
4 5 (3.50%) QA
5 4 (2.80%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.70%) COBIT
6 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.70%) PMO
6 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.50%) ClearTrust
2 2 (1.40%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) KVM
3 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.90%) BT
3 5 (3.50%) Pega
3 5 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.80%) ConnectWise
4 4 (2.80%) SAP
5 3 (2.10%) Oracle
5 3 (2.10%) Starlink
6 2 (1.40%) VMware
7 1 (0.70%) Adobe
7 1 (0.70%) Arqiva
7 1 (0.70%) Broadcom
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco
7 1 (0.70%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.70%) Google
7 1 (0.70%) HP
7 1 (0.70%) NEC
7 1 (0.70%) Nokia
7 1 (0.70%) Remedy
7 1 (0.70%) Xero