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 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 122 56
Rank change year-on-year +41 -66 -13
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 148 76 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.97% 2.00% 4.07%
As % of the General category 4.36% 2.69% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 103 50 30
10th Percentile £26,577 £32,000 £27,150
25th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,554 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -22.73% +9.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,563
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,500 £88,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £36,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +36.99% -23.16% +6.15%

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 3,394 2,821 2,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 45.09% 74.35% 51.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 1,031 845
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £85,000
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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +37 86 £60,000 +66.67% 44
Buckinghamshire +23 47 £30,000 -34.22% 10
Oxfordshire -38 15 £52,500 -19.23% 11
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 (6.08%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.84%) Azure
2 10 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.73%) SaaS
4 6 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.03%) AWS
5 3 (2.03%) GCP
6 2 (1.35%) GitHub
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Databricks
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.68%) Contentsquare
7 1 (0.68%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.68%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.68%) IaaS
7 1 (0.68%) PaaS
7 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.19%) 5G
1 21 (14.19%) Broadband
2 12 (8.11%) Wireless
3 7 (4.73%) Ethernet
4 6 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (3.38%) Unified Communications
5 5 (3.38%) VoIP
6 4 (2.70%) Internet
6 4 (2.70%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.70%) WAN
7 2 (1.35%) 4G
7 2 (1.35%) Firewall
7 2 (1.35%) LAN
7 2 (1.35%) Network Security
7 2 (1.35%) WLAN
8 1 (0.68%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.68%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.68%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (6.76%) JIRA
2 2 (1.35%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 27 (18.24%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.22%) Finance
3 18 (12.16%) Legal
4 16 (10.81%) Aerospace
5 14 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (7.43%) Electronics
7 11 (7.43%) Law
8 8 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.05%) Military
10 5 (3.38%) Billing
10 5 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.38%) Marketing
11 4 (2.70%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.03%) Local Government
12 3 (2.03%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.03%) Retail
13 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.68%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (10.81%) Field Engineer
2 13 (8.78%) Account Manager
2 13 (8.78%) Corporate Account Manager
2 13 (8.78%) Internal Account Manager
2 13 (8.78%) Network Manager
3 12 (8.11%) Sales Engineer
3 12 (8.11%) Senior
3 12 (8.11%) Telecoms Manager
4 10 (6.76%) IT Manager
4 10 (6.76%) Technical Manager
5 8 (5.41%) Developer
5 8 (5.41%) Project Manager
5 8 (5.41%) Sales Executive
6 7 (4.73%) Administrator
7 6 (4.05%) Engineering Manager
7 6 (4.05%) IT Procurement Manager
7 6 (4.05%) Java Developer
7 6 (4.05%) Procurement Manager
7 6 (4.05%) Project Engineer
7 6 (4.05%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.03%) AngularJS
1 3 (2.03%) CSS
1 3 (2.03%) HTML
1 3 (2.03%) OAuth
1 3 (2.03%) REST
1 3 (2.03%) SAML
1 3 (2.03%) SOAP
2 2 (1.35%) Smarty
3 1 (0.68%) LDAP
3 1 (0.68%) PySpark
3 1 (0.68%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.14%) Driving Licence
2 12 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.38%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.38%) IoT
4 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.03%) CMDB
4 3 (2.03%) Handset
4 3 (2.03%) Learning Management System
4 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.03%) TM Forum
5 1 (0.68%) Analogue Electronics
5 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Pricing Data
5 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.68%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.73%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (12.16%) Project Management
4 14 (9.46%) AI
4 14 (9.46%) CRM
5 13 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (8.78%) Project Delivery
5 13 (8.78%) Supplier Management
6 12 (8.11%) Customer Experience
6 12 (8.11%) Decision-Making
7 11 (7.43%) Agile
7 11 (7.43%) Customer Service
7 11 (7.43%) DevOps
8 10 (6.76%) Change Control
9 9 (6.08%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 9 (6.08%) Line Management
9 9 (6.08%) Release Management
9 9 (6.08%) Software Engineering
9 9 (6.08%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.41%) Java
2 6 (4.05%) Kotlin
3 3 (2.03%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.35%) Python
5 1 (0.68%) C
5 1 (0.68%) C++
5 1 (0.68%) Rust
5 1 (0.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (12.84%) Degree
2 9 (6.08%) PMI Certification
2 9 (6.08%) PMP
3 8 (5.41%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (1.35%) CCSP
4 2 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.35%) CISSP
4 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.68%) ACCA
5 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.68%) CCSK
5 1 (0.68%) CIMA
5 1 (0.68%) City & Guilds
5 1 (0.68%) HND
5 1 (0.68%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.08%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.41%) GDPR
3 5 (3.38%) QA
3 5 (3.38%) SLA
4 3 (2.03%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) COBIT
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) PMO
5 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.38%) ClearTrust
2 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) KVM
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.08%) Pega
3 7 (4.73%) BT
4 3 (2.03%) ConnectWise
4 3 (2.03%) Oracle
4 3 (2.03%) SAP
4 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.03%) Starlink
5 2 (1.35%) VMware
6 1 (0.68%) Adobe
6 1 (0.68%) Arqiva
6 1 (0.68%) Broadcom
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco
6 1 (0.68%) Databricks
6 1 (0.68%) Ericsson
6 1 (0.68%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) HP
6 1 (0.68%) NEC
6 1 (0.68%) Nokia
6 1 (0.68%) Remedy