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 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 149 195
Rank change year-on-year +5 +46 +23
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 315 305 353
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.81% 2.30% 1.60%
As % of the General category 2.94% 3.04% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 203 113 270
10th Percentile £32,600 £40,650 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,136 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £110,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -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 10,708 10,041 14,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 61.51% 75.66% 66.52%
Number of salaries quoted 6,610 5,642 11,100
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £76,000 £71,497
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.30% -3.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,001 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -12.20%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -25 30 £45,000 -10.00% 40
West London -24 16 £29,350 -58.07% 2
South London +17 4 £45,000 - 3
East London -26 2 £20,000 -35.48% 13
North London +2 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 5 (1.59%) Apache Pulsar
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.95%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.63%) Apache
4 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.95%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.95%) Sketch
5 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 40 (12.70%) GCP
2 38 (12.06%) Azure
3 37 (11.75%) AWS
4 15 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 13 (4.13%) SaaS
6 11 (3.49%) GitHub
6 11 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (1.90%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.59%) Datadog
11 4 (1.27%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.27%) Cloud Run
11 4 (1.27%) Google Compute Engine
11 4 (1.27%) IaaS
11 4 (1.27%) PaaS
12 3 (0.95%) Anthos
12 3 (0.95%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.25%) Broadband
2 18 (5.71%) Firewall
3 16 (5.08%) LAN
4 15 (4.76%) WAN
5 14 (4.44%) VoIP
6 12 (3.81%) Multicast
7 11 (3.49%) 4G
8 10 (3.17%) BGP
8 10 (3.17%) MPLS
9 9 (2.86%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (2.86%) Ethernet VPN
9 9 (2.86%) SD-WAN
9 9 (2.86%) TCP/IP
9 9 (2.86%) VPN
10 8 (2.54%) IOS XR
10 8 (2.54%) Network Security
11 6 (1.90%) Ethernet
11 6 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (1.59%) Wireless
13 4 (1.27%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.08%) Relational Database
2 14 (4.44%) RDBMS
3 9 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (1.90%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (1.59%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.95%) Big Data
7 3 (0.95%) Redis
8 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.63%) KNIME
8 2 (0.63%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.63%) Power BI
8 2 (0.63%) QlikView
8 2 (0.63%) Tableau
9 1 (0.32%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.32%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 13 (4.13%) Git
2 11 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.59%) GitLab
3 5 (1.59%) JIRA
4 4 (1.27%) Postman
5 1 (0.32%) SoapUI
General
1 114 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.81%) Finance
3 48 (15.24%) Marketing
4 44 (13.97%) Public Sector
5 37 (11.75%) Electronics
6 34 (10.79%) Manufacturing
7 32 (10.16%) Billing
8 30 (9.52%) Legal
9 27 (8.57%) Law
10 19 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (5.08%) Banking
11 16 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (3.49%) Games
14 11 (3.49%) German Language
15 8 (2.54%) Retail
16 7 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (1.27%) Advertising
18 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (20.00%) Senior
2 37 (11.75%) Lead
3 31 (9.84%) Account Manager
4 24 (7.62%) Telecoms Manager
5 21 (6.67%) Analyst
6 19 (6.03%) Architect
6 19 (6.03%) IT Support
6 19 (6.03%) Network Engineer
6 19 (6.03%) Telecoms Account Manager
7 16 (5.08%) Developer
8 15 (4.76%) Consultant
8 15 (4.76%) Support Specialist
9 14 (4.44%) IT Analyst
9 14 (4.44%) IT Support Analyst
9 14 (4.44%) Support Analyst
10 13 (4.13%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.13%) Security Engineer
10 13 (4.13%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.13%) Senior Security Engineer
10 13 (4.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.84%) REST
2 24 (7.62%) Kafka
3 23 (7.30%) Spring
4 22 (6.98%) RESTful
4 22 (6.98%) Spring Boot
5 17 (5.40%) gRPC
6 16 (5.08%) WebSockets
7 13 (4.13%) AngularJS
7 13 (4.13%) Bootstrap
8 11 (3.49%) OAuth
9 9 (2.86%) Spring Cloud
10 8 (2.54%) Jinja
10 8 (2.54%) NETCONF
10 8 (2.54%) OAuth2
10 8 (2.54%) YANG
11 6 (1.90%) JWT
11 6 (1.90%) Spring Integration
11 6 (1.90%) Spring MVC
12 5 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (1.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 21 (6.67%) Social Media
3 17 (5.40%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.81%) AI Agents
4 12 (3.81%) Video Conferencing
5 10 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.22%) MPEG
7 7 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.90%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.27%) IoT
9 4 (1.27%) IVR
9 4 (1.27%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.95%) Life Science
10 3 (0.95%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.95%) TM Forum
11 2 (0.63%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.52%) Windows
2 21 (6.67%) Android
3 11 (3.49%) Linux
4 5 (1.59%) Unix
4 5 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.95%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (17.14%) AI
2 50 (15.87%) Agile
3 45 (14.29%) Business Development
4 42 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 41 (13.02%) Microservices
6 40 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (12.70%) Mentoring
7 38 (12.06%) CRM
8 36 (11.43%) DevOps
9 35 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 35 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
9 35 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (10.79%) Programme Management
11 32 (10.16%) CI/CD
12 29 (9.21%) Machine Learning
13 26 (8.25%) ITIL
13 26 (8.25%) User Experience
14 25 (7.94%) Analytics
14 25 (7.94%) B2B
15 24 (7.62%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.65%) Python
2 28 (8.89%) Java
3 23 (7.30%) SQL
4 22 (6.98%) C++
5 18 (5.71%) Go
5 18 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 13 (4.13%) Bash
7 12 (3.81%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.81%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.17%) C#
9 7 (2.22%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.95%) PHP
10 3 (0.95%) R
11 2 (0.63%) C
12 1 (0.32%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 78 (24.76%) Degree
2 33 (10.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.81%) A+ Certification
5 11 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.54%) CCIE
8 7 (2.22%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.90%) CCNP
10 5 (1.59%) CCSE
11 4 (1.27%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.95%) CCSA
12 3 (0.95%) CISA
12 3 (0.95%) CISSP
13 2 (0.63%) APMG
13 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.63%) CISM
14 1 (0.32%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.44%) GRC
2 14 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 9 (2.86%) QA
4 8 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.90%) GDPR
6 5 (1.59%) PMO
7 4 (1.27%) SLA
8 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.95%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.63%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.32%) SOC 1
System Software
1 31 (9.84%) Docker
2 7 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (13.97%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.08%) Terraform
3 12 (3.81%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.86%) Ansible
5 8 (2.54%) Grafana
6 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 35 (11.11%) SAP
2 30 (9.52%) Cisco
3 29 (9.21%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.13%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.49%) Google
6 8 (2.54%) CheckPoint
6 8 (2.54%) Palantir
7 5 (1.59%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.59%) F5
7 5 (1.59%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.59%) Nokia
7 5 (1.59%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.59%) Splunk
8 4 (1.27%) Avaya
8 4 (1.27%) DocuSign
8 4 (1.27%) Genesys
9 3 (0.95%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.95%) Meraki
9 3 (0.95%) Remedy
10 2 (0.63%) Alteryx