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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 162 227
Rank change year-on-year -6 +65 -46
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 297 272 338
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.38% 2.24% 1.37%
As % of the General category 2.53% 2.91% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 169 138 244
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,675 £31,300
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,625 £103,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £43,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.44% -21.05%

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 11,739 9,357 16,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 54.69% 76.89% 66.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7,580 5,347 11,552
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -5.41%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,001 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -28 33 £45,000 -10.00% 22
West London +3 20 £55,000 -21.43% 17
East London -5 3 £20,000 -35.48% 7
South London +24 1 - - 7
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 3 (1.01%) Apache
1 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.34%) Confluence
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (7.07%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.69%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (7.74%) AWS
2 19 (6.40%) SaaS
3 15 (5.05%) Azure
4 14 (4.71%) GCP
5 12 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (3.37%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.03%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.68%) Serverless
9 4 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.01%) Anthos
10 3 (1.01%) Apigee
10 3 (1.01%) OCI
11 2 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.67%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (0.67%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.67%) Azure AI
11 2 (0.67%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.74%) Broadband
2 18 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 18 (6.06%) WAN
3 17 (5.72%) LAN
4 15 (5.05%) BGP
4 15 (5.05%) Firewall
5 14 (4.71%) Multicast
6 12 (4.04%) 4G
6 12 (4.04%) Network Security
7 11 (3.70%) MPLS
8 10 (3.37%) SD-WAN
9 9 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
9 9 (3.03%) Wireless
10 8 (2.69%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (2.69%) IOS XR
11 7 (2.36%) VoIP
12 6 (2.02%) OSPF
13 5 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
13 5 (1.68%) VPN
13 5 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 10 (3.37%) RDBMS
3 8 (2.69%) Big Data
4 7 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (2.36%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.67%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.67%) Metadata
6 2 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.67%) Redshift Spectrum
6 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.34%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (4.04%) Git
2 3 (1.01%) Postman
3 2 (0.67%) JIRA
4 1 (0.34%) CMake
4 1 (0.34%) Valgrind
General
1 122 (41.08%) Social Skills
2 60 (20.20%) Finance
3 38 (12.79%) Law
4 35 (11.78%) Legal
5 29 (9.76%) Billing
6 20 (6.73%) Banking
7 19 (6.40%) Marketing
8 18 (6.06%) Retail
9 17 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (5.72%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (3.70%) Public Sector
12 8 (2.69%) Games
13 5 (1.68%) Advertising
14 3 (1.01%) Esports
14 3 (1.01%) German Language
14 3 (1.01%) Military
14 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (11.45%) Account Manager
2 32 (10.77%) Lead
3 24 (8.08%) Architect
4 23 (7.74%) Telecoms Manager
5 22 (7.41%) Senior
6 18 (6.06%) Telecoms Account Manager
7 16 (5.39%) Analyst
8 15 (5.05%) Account Director
9 14 (4.71%) Network Engineer
10 12 (4.04%) Developer
10 12 (4.04%) IT Support
11 11 (3.70%) Consultant
11 11 (3.70%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.37%) Administrator
12 10 (3.37%) IT Analyst
12 10 (3.37%) IT Support Analyst
12 10 (3.37%) IT Support Specialist
12 10 (3.37%) Support Analyst
12 10 (3.37%) Support Specialist
13 9 (3.03%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.40%) Spring
1 19 (6.40%) Spring Boot
2 14 (4.71%) REST
3 10 (3.37%) AngularJS
3 10 (3.37%) Bootstrap
4 9 (3.03%) Spring Cloud
5 8 (2.69%) Jinja
5 8 (2.69%) NETCONF
5 8 (2.69%) YANG
6 6 (2.02%) Kafka
6 6 (2.02%) Spring Integration
6 6 (2.02%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.01%) Apache Camel
7 3 (1.01%) Java SE
7 3 (1.01%) JSON
7 3 (1.01%) JWT
7 3 (1.01%) OAuth
7 3 (1.01%) SAML
7 3 (1.01%) Swagger
8 2 (0.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.43%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.05%) Social Media
4 13 (4.38%) MPEG
5 12 (4.04%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (2.36%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.68%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.35%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.35%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (1.01%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.01%) Digital Media
10 3 (1.01%) Life Science
10 3 (1.01%) TM Forum
11 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.67%) CMDB
11 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.06%) Windows
2 5 (1.68%) Linux
3 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.34%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (13.80%) Agile
2 39 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (12.12%) Business Development
4 32 (10.77%) CRM
5 31 (10.44%) Customer Experience
6 28 (9.43%) Regulatory Compliance
7 27 (9.09%) Analytics
8 25 (8.42%) AI
9 24 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (8.08%) IT Strategy
9 24 (8.08%) Mentoring
10 23 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (7.74%) Information Security
11 22 (7.41%) Line Management
11 22 (7.41%) Presales
11 22 (7.41%) Roadmaps
12 21 (7.07%) Technology Strategy
13 19 (6.40%) B2B
14 18 (6.06%) ITIL
14 18 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.42%) Python
2 21 (7.07%) Java
3 13 (4.38%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.69%) SQL
5 3 (1.01%) PHP
6 2 (0.67%) Bash
6 2 (0.67%) C
6 2 (0.67%) C++
6 2 (0.67%) Go
6 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (17.17%) Degree
2 16 (5.39%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (3.70%) CCNP
4 10 (3.37%) A+ Certification
4 10 (3.37%) CCIE
5 7 (2.36%) CCSE
5 7 (2.36%) CISSP
6 5 (1.68%) CISM
6 5 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.68%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.35%) APMG
7 4 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.01%) ACCA
8 3 (1.01%) CCIE Security
8 3 (1.01%) CCNA
8 3 (1.01%) CCSA
8 3 (1.01%) CISA
8 3 (1.01%) JNCIE
8 3 (1.01%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (8.08%) GRC
3 23 (7.74%) PCI DSS
4 14 (4.71%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.69%) SLA
6 6 (2.02%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.68%) GDPR
8 3 (1.01%) IFRS
8 3 (1.01%) NIST
8 3 (1.01%) QA
9 2 (0.67%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.67%) PMO
9 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.34%) MiFID
10 1 (0.34%) NCSC
10 1 (0.34%) RMADS
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 1
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (3.03%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (6.40%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.69%) Terraform
3 5 (1.68%) Autotask
4 4 (1.35%) Ansible
5 2 (0.67%) Grafana
5 2 (0.67%) Nagios
5 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.67%) WSUS
6 1 (0.34%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (8.08%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.41%) Cisco
3 9 (3.03%) CheckPoint
4 8 (2.69%) Fortinet
4 8 (2.69%) Palo Alto
5 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.02%) F5
6 6 (2.02%) Google
6 6 (2.02%) HubSpot
6 6 (2.02%) Remedy
7 5 (1.68%) Arista
7 5 (1.68%) DocuSign
7 5 (1.68%) Kaseya
7 5 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.35%) Freshdesk
9 3 (1.01%) BT
9 3 (1.01%) Databricks
9 3 (1.01%) VMware
10 2 (0.67%) Juniper
10 2 (0.67%) Red Hat