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 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 170 158
Rank change year-on-year +23 -12 +85
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 287 337 418
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.42% 1.92% 2.07%
As % of the General category 3.20% 2.78% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 178 139 297
10th Percentile £34,325 £34,400 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -8.70%

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 common skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,977 12,109 13,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 75.56% 68.90% 68.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,469 7,133 10,860
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,813 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 24 October 2025.

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 24 October 2025. 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 +32 40 £50,000 -4.76% 140
South London +13 6 £45,000 +32.35% 4
West London -19 2 - - 18
North London -5 1 £35,000 -6.67% 3
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 10 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.05%) Confluence
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.70%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (11.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (7.67%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (7.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.79%) Maya
4 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (2.09%) Adobe XD
5 6 (2.09%) Sketch
6 5 (1.74%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.35%) InDesign
7 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.79%) SAP IBP
1 8 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (16.72%) Azure
2 37 (12.89%) AWS
3 33 (11.50%) GCP
4 17 (5.92%) SaaS
5 10 (3.48%) PaaS
6 9 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.79%) Figma
8 6 (2.09%) Datadog
8 6 (2.09%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.09%) IaaS
8 6 (2.09%) Serverless
9 4 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.39%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.05%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.05%) Cloudflare
10 3 (1.05%) GitHub
10 3 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.10%) Firewall
2 16 (5.57%) WAN
3 15 (5.23%) LAN
4 13 (4.53%) SD-WAN
5 12 (4.18%) Network Security
5 12 (4.18%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (3.48%) VPN
6 10 (3.48%) Wireless
6 10 (3.48%) Wireshark
7 9 (3.14%) BGP
7 9 (3.14%) Broadband
8 7 (2.44%) Internet
8 7 (2.44%) TCP/IP
9 6 (2.09%) IP Telephony
9 6 (2.09%) OSPF
10 5 (1.74%) DNS
10 5 (1.74%) Ethernet
10 5 (1.74%) MPLS
11 4 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (1.39%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.23%) NoSQL
2 13 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.83%) RDBMS
3 11 (3.83%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.79%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
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%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.14%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.79%) Git
3 3 (1.05%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.05%) GitLab
3 3 (1.05%) JIRA
3 3 (1.05%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.35%) CMake
4 1 (0.35%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.35%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 145 (50.52%) Social Skills
2 134 (46.69%) Finance
3 94 (32.75%) Marketing
4 87 (30.31%) Public Sector
5 82 (28.57%) Manufacturing
6 75 (26.13%) Electronics
7 57 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (17.42%) Law
9 32 (11.15%) Banking
10 22 (7.67%) Legal
11 17 (5.92%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (3.48%) Automotive
13 10 (3.48%) Games
14 9 (3.14%) Military
15 8 (2.79%) Billing
15 8 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (2.79%) German Language
15 8 (2.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (2.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (18.47%) Senior
2 45 (15.68%) IT Support
3 31 (10.80%) Analyst
4 28 (9.76%) IT Manager
5 27 (9.41%) Support Analyst
6 25 (8.71%) Operations Manager
7 23 (8.01%) IT Analyst
7 23 (8.01%) IT Operations Manager
7 23 (8.01%) IT Support Analyst
8 22 (7.67%) IT Support Manager
8 22 (7.67%) Support Manager
9 19 (6.62%) Consultant
9 19 (6.62%) Network Engineer
10 18 (6.27%) Support Specialist
11 17 (5.92%) Senior Manager
12 15 (5.23%) IT Support Specialist
13 13 (4.53%) Project Manager
14 12 (4.18%) Architect
14 12 (4.18%) Developer
14 12 (4.18%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.57%) FastAPI
2 13 (4.53%) REST
3 12 (4.18%) Flask
4 8 (2.79%) Middleware
5 7 (2.44%) RESTful
6 6 (2.09%) Node.js
7 5 (1.74%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.39%) NumPy
8 4 (1.39%) Pandas
8 4 (1.39%) Spring
9 3 (1.05%) Django
9 3 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.05%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.70%) OpenAPI
10 2 (0.70%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.70%) Swagger
11 1 (0.35%) Caffe
11 1 (0.35%) Dask
11 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (0.35%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.41%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.57%) Management Information System
3 16 (5.57%) Video Conferencing
4 12 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.48%) Mobile App
5 10 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.14%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.79%) PMI
7 8 (2.79%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.79%) Social Media
8 4 (1.39%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.05%) VUI
9 3 (1.05%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.59%) Windows
2 15 (5.23%) Linux
3 7 (2.44%) Android
3 7 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.74%) Unix
5 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.22%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (27.87%) Programme Management
3 78 (27.18%) Business Intelligence
4 76 (26.48%) Digital Marketing
5 58 (20.21%) Project Management
6 49 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
7 48 (16.72%) ITIL
8 44 (15.33%) AI
9 43 (14.98%) Project Delivery
10 39 (13.59%) Agile
11 35 (12.20%) Analytics
11 35 (12.20%) Business Development
12 33 (11.50%) Incident Management
13 30 (10.45%) High Availability
14 29 (10.10%) Service Management
15 27 (9.41%) CRM
16 26 (9.06%) CI/CD
16 26 (9.06%) Incident Response
16 26 (9.06%) Root Cause Analysis
17 25 (8.71%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 65 (22.65%) Python
2 23 (8.01%) SQL
3 15 (5.23%) Bash
3 15 (5.23%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.18%) Java
5 7 (2.44%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.09%) C++
7 4 (1.39%) C#
8 3 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.05%) R
9 2 (0.70%) C
9 2 (0.70%) Go
9 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.35%) Bicep
10 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.35%) Perl
10 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 72 (25.09%) Degree
2 37 (12.89%) PMI Certification
3 29 (10.10%) PMP
4 26 (9.06%) CISSP
5 23 (8.01%) Security Cleared
6 20 (6.97%) SC Cleared
7 18 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (5.23%) A+ Certification
9 13 (4.53%) DV Cleared
10 11 (3.83%) CCNP
11 8 (2.79%) CCIE
11 8 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.44%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.74%) CCNA
14 3 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (1.05%) CCSP
14 3 (1.05%) GCIH
15 2 (0.70%) Dell Certification
15 2 (0.70%) MCSA
15 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.94%) QA
2 34 (11.85%) GDPR
3 27 (9.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (8.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (4.53%) GAAP
6 10 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.79%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.44%) NIST
9 4 (1.39%) EU AI Act
10 3 (1.05%) PMO
10 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.35%) SLA
12 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (6.27%) Docker
2 14 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.35%) Corosync
4 1 (0.35%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.35%) KVM
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (8.36%) Terraform
2 22 (7.67%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.88%) Ansible
4 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.39%) Grafana
5 4 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.05%) Nmap
7 2 (0.70%) WSUS
8 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.35%) Icinga
8 1 (0.35%) Pacemaker
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (28.92%) SAP
2 52 (18.12%) Microsoft
3 34 (11.85%) Cisco
4 23 (8.01%) Google
5 14 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 13 (4.53%) CheckPoint
7 11 (3.83%) Meraki
7 11 (3.83%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.48%) SolarWinds
9 8 (2.79%) Ariba
10 7 (2.44%) Adobe
11 5 (1.74%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.74%) Palantir
11 5 (1.74%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.39%) Arista
12 4 (1.39%) Bloomberg
12 4 (1.39%) Citrix
12 4 (1.39%) Juniper
12 4 (1.39%) OpenAI
13 3 (1.05%) Workday