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 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 158 190
Rank change year-on-year +9 +32 +27
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 284 327 348
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.91% 2.12% 1.67%
As % of the General category 2.90% 2.88% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 186 114 263
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £105,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% -18.18%

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 9,786 11,362 13,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 65.87% 73.81% 65.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,978 5,965 10,662
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,840 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,357 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,400 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +3.29% -1.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 31 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 31 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 -2 35 £45,000 -10.00% 14
West London -13 11 £53,750 -23.21% 3
South London +21 5 £45,000 - 3
North London +3 1 £35,000 - 2
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 6 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.76%) Apache Pulsar
3 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (6.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.46%) Maya
5 3 (1.06%) Chatbot
5 3 (1.06%) Sketch
6 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.46%) SAP IBP
1 7 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.70%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (19.01%) Azure
2 50 (17.61%) GCP
3 39 (13.73%) AWS
4 11 (3.87%) GitHub
4 11 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.17%) OpenShift
7 8 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (2.82%) SaaS
8 6 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.11%) Datadog
8 6 (2.11%) IaaS
8 6 (2.11%) PaaS
9 5 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.41%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.41%) Cloud Run
10 4 (1.41%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.41%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (1.06%) Anthos
11 3 (1.06%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.86%) Broadband
2 24 (8.45%) Firewall
3 17 (5.99%) LAN
4 16 (5.63%) WAN
5 13 (4.58%) VoIP
6 12 (4.23%) SD-WAN
7 10 (3.52%) VPN
8 9 (3.17%) 4G
8 9 (3.17%) BGP
8 9 (3.17%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (3.17%) Ethernet VPN
8 9 (3.17%) MPLS
8 9 (3.17%) Wireless
8 9 (3.17%) Wireshark
9 8 (2.82%) Ethernet
9 8 (2.82%) IOS XR
9 8 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.11%) IP Telephony
11 5 (1.76%) DNS
11 5 (1.76%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.58%) NoSQL
1 13 (4.58%) Relational Database
2 11 (3.87%) RDBMS
3 8 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.46%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.46%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.06%) Redis
6 2 (0.70%) KNIME
6 2 (0.70%) Metadata
6 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.70%) Power BI
6 2 (0.70%) QlikView
6 2 (0.70%) Tableau
7 1 (0.35%) Big Data
7 1 (0.35%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (4.58%) Git
2 11 (3.87%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.76%) GitLab
4 4 (1.41%) Postman
5 3 (1.06%) Burp Suite
5 3 (1.06%) JIRA
5 3 (1.06%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
General
1 112 (39.44%) Social Skills
2 100 (35.21%) Finance
3 69 (24.30%) Marketing
4 59 (20.77%) Manufacturing
4 59 (20.77%) Public Sector
5 54 (19.01%) Electronics
6 31 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (10.21%) Law
8 21 (7.39%) Billing
9 20 (7.04%) Banking
10 19 (6.69%) Legal
11 18 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (5.28%) Games
13 11 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (3.17%) German Language
15 7 (2.46%) Automotive
16 5 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.76%) Retail
17 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (26.41%) Senior
2 30 (10.56%) Analyst
3 27 (9.51%) IT Support
4 24 (8.45%) Architect
4 24 (8.45%) Lead
5 23 (8.10%) Support Analyst
6 22 (7.75%) Network Engineer
7 19 (6.69%) IT Analyst
7 19 (6.69%) IT Support Analyst
8 17 (5.99%) Software Engineer
9 16 (5.63%) Security Engineer
9 16 (5.63%) Support Specialist
9 16 (5.63%) Telecoms Manager
10 14 (4.93%) Account Manager
11 13 (4.58%) Android Engineer
11 13 (4.58%) Consultant
11 13 (4.58%) Developer
11 13 (4.58%) Senior Android Engineer
11 13 (4.58%) Senior Manager
11 13 (4.58%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.21%) REST
2 25 (8.80%) RESTful
3 23 (8.10%) Kafka
4 17 (5.99%) gRPC
4 17 (5.99%) Spring
4 17 (5.99%) WebSockets
5 16 (5.63%) Spring Boot
6 11 (3.87%) OAuth
7 9 (3.17%) Spring Cloud
8 8 (2.82%) Jinja
8 8 (2.82%) Middleware
8 8 (2.82%) NETCONF
8 8 (2.82%) OAuth2
8 8 (2.82%) YANG
9 7 (2.46%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.46%) Bootstrap
10 6 (2.11%) JWT
10 6 (2.11%) Spring Integration
10 6 (2.11%) Spring MVC
11 5 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (7.75%) Social Media
3 19 (6.69%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.99%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.93%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.23%) AI Agents
6 12 (4.23%) Video Conferencing
7 10 (3.52%) Mobile App
8 9 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.17%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.46%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.46%) PMI
9 7 (2.46%) Reinsurance
9 7 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.11%) IVR
11 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.06%) IoT
11 3 (1.06%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.06%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.68%) Windows
2 22 (7.75%) Android
3 14 (4.93%) Linux
4 7 (2.46%) Unix
5 5 (1.76%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.70%) VMS
8 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (21.13%) AI
2 57 (20.07%) Agile
3 55 (19.37%) Business Intelligence
4 54 (19.01%) Digital Marketing
4 54 (19.01%) Programme Management
5 49 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (14.08%) CRM
7 39 (13.73%) Business Development
7 39 (13.73%) Containerisation
8 37 (13.03%) CI/CD
8 37 (13.03%) DevOps
9 36 (12.68%) Mentoring
9 36 (12.68%) Microservices
10 34 (11.97%) Computer Science
11 33 (11.62%) User Experience
12 32 (11.27%) Machine Learning
13 30 (10.56%) ITIL
14 27 (9.51%) Software Engineering
15 26 (9.15%) Analytics
15 26 (9.15%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (20.77%) Python
2 29 (10.21%) SQL
3 24 (8.45%) Java
4 23 (8.10%) C++
5 19 (6.69%) Bash
6 18 (6.34%) Go
6 18 (6.34%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.58%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.23%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.52%) C#
10 8 (2.82%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.06%) PHP
11 3 (1.06%) R
12 2 (0.70%) C
13 1 (0.35%) Bicep
13 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.35%) Rust
13 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 72 (25.35%) Degree
2 32 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (7.75%) Security Cleared
4 21 (7.39%) SC Cleared
5 16 (5.63%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.58%) PMI Certification
7 12 (4.23%) A+ Certification
8 10 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.52%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.82%) CISSP
10 6 (2.11%) PMP
11 4 (1.41%) CCIE
11 4 (1.41%) CCNP
12 3 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.06%) CCSP
12 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.06%) GCIH
13 2 (0.70%) CCSA
13 2 (0.70%) CCSE
14 1 (0.35%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.34%) QA
2 16 (5.63%) GDPR
3 9 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (1.76%) PMO
5 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.06%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.70%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) GAAP
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (12.32%) Docker
2 14 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (14.79%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.34%) Terraform
3 12 (4.23%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.82%) Ansible
4 8 (2.82%) Grafana
4 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.06%) Nmap
6 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 59 (20.77%) SAP
2 38 (13.38%) Microsoft
3 36 (12.68%) Cisco
4 19 (6.69%) Google
5 18 (6.34%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.52%) CheckPoint
6 10 (3.52%) Meraki
7 9 (3.17%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.82%) Palantir
8 8 (2.82%) SolarWinds
9 7 (2.46%) Ariba
10 6 (2.11%) Avaya
11 5 (1.76%) Ericsson
11 5 (1.76%) Genesys
11 5 (1.76%) Mavenir
11 5 (1.76%) Nokia
11 5 (1.76%) Splunk
12 3 (1.06%) F5
12 3 (1.06%) Rapid7
12 3 (1.06%) Zscaler