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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 158 188
Rank change year-on-year +18 +30 +35
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 316 319 351
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.92% 2.25% 1.64%
As % of the General category 3.03% 3.00% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 202 115 264
10th Percentile £30,338 £40,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £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 10,434 10,646 14,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 63.37% 75.01% 66.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,432 5,738 10,865
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,260 £56,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £76,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +4.83% -0.81%
75th Percentile £96,063 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £116,000
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 5 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 5 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 -13 33 £45,000 -10.00% 47
West London -14 14 £53,750 -23.21% 3
South London +19 5 £45,000 - 7
East London -16 2 £20,000 -35.48% 12
North London +4 1 £35,000 - 1
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 (1.58%) Apache Pulsar
1 5 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.63%) Apache
3 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.95%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.95%) Sketch
5 2 (0.63%) Maya
5 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.63%) Misys Midas
2 2 (0.63%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 44 (13.92%) Azure
2 43 (13.61%) GCP
3 37 (11.71%) AWS
4 14 (4.43%) OpenShift
5 11 (3.48%) GitHub
5 11 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (3.48%) SaaS
6 9 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (1.58%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.58%) Datadog
10 4 (1.27%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.27%) Cloud Run
10 4 (1.27%) Google Compute Engine
10 4 (1.27%) IaaS
10 4 (1.27%) PaaS
11 3 (0.95%) Anthos
11 3 (0.95%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.49%) Broadband
2 21 (6.65%) Firewall
3 17 (5.38%) LAN
4 16 (5.06%) WAN
5 14 (4.43%) VoIP
6 12 (3.80%) SD-WAN
7 11 (3.48%) 4G
7 11 (3.48%) VPN
8 10 (3.16%) BGP
8 10 (3.16%) MPLS
8 10 (3.16%) Multicast
9 9 (2.85%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (2.85%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (2.53%) Ethernet
10 8 (2.53%) IOS XR
10 8 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.22%) Network Security
11 7 (2.22%) TCP/IP
12 6 (1.90%) Wireless
12 6 (1.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.75%) Relational Database
2 13 (4.11%) RDBMS
3 9 (2.85%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.22%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.58%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.95%) Big Data
7 3 (0.95%) Redis
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%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.63%) Tableau
9 1 (0.32%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.32%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 13 (4.11%) Git
2 11 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.58%) GitLab
4 4 (1.27%) Postman
5 3 (0.95%) JIRA
6 1 (0.32%) SoapUI
General
1 123 (38.92%) Social Skills
2 80 (25.32%) Finance
3 54 (17.09%) Marketing
4 49 (15.51%) Public Sector
5 40 (12.66%) Electronics
5 40 (12.66%) Manufacturing
6 31 (9.81%) Billing
7 29 (9.18%) Law
8 28 (8.86%) Legal
9 22 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (5.38%) Banking
12 15 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (4.11%) Games
14 11 (3.48%) German Language
14 11 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (2.85%) Retail
16 8 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (1.58%) Advertising
18 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (22.15%) Senior
2 33 (10.44%) Lead
3 27 (8.54%) Account Manager
4 25 (7.91%) Analyst
5 23 (7.28%) IT Support
6 22 (6.96%) Architect
6 22 (6.96%) Telecoms Manager
7 21 (6.65%) Network Engineer
8 19 (6.01%) Support Analyst
9 18 (5.70%) IT Analyst
9 18 (5.70%) IT Support Analyst
9 18 (5.70%) Telecoms Account Manager
10 16 (5.06%) Consultant
10 16 (5.06%) Support Specialist
11 15 (4.75%) Developer
12 14 (4.43%) Software Engineer
13 13 (4.11%) Security Engineer
13 13 (4.11%) Senior Security Engineer
14 12 (3.80%) IT Support Specialist
14 12 (3.80%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.81%) REST
2 24 (7.59%) Kafka
3 22 (6.96%) RESTful
3 22 (6.96%) Spring
4 21 (6.65%) Spring Boot
5 17 (5.38%) gRPC
6 16 (5.06%) WebSockets
7 12 (3.80%) AngularJS
7 12 (3.80%) Bootstrap
8 11 (3.48%) OAuth
9 9 (2.85%) Spring Cloud
10 8 (2.53%) Jinja
10 8 (2.53%) NETCONF
10 8 (2.53%) OAuth2
10 8 (2.53%) YANG
11 6 (1.90%) JWT
11 6 (1.90%) Spring Integration
11 6 (1.90%) Spring MVC
12 5 (1.58%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (1.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.91%) Social Media
2 22 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.65%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.38%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.80%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.80%) Video Conferencing
6 11 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.16%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.85%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.53%) Driving Licence
9 8 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.58%) IVR
10 5 (1.58%) MPEG
11 4 (1.27%) IoT
11 4 (1.27%) Virtual Reality
12 3 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.95%) Life Science
12 3 (0.95%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.95%) TM Forum
13 2 (0.63%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.13%) Windows
2 21 (6.65%) Android
3 11 (3.48%) Linux
4 7 (2.22%) Unix
5 5 (1.58%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.95%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (17.41%) AI
2 52 (16.46%) Agile
3 49 (15.51%) Business Development
4 43 (13.61%) Business Intelligence
5 42 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (12.97%) Containerisation
6 41 (12.97%) CRM
7 40 (12.66%) Microservices
8 39 (12.34%) Digital Marketing
8 39 (12.34%) Mentoring
8 39 (12.34%) Programme Management
9 36 (11.39%) DevOps
10 35 (11.08%) Computer Science
11 32 (10.13%) CI/CD
12 30 (9.49%) User Experience
13 29 (9.18%) Machine Learning
14 27 (8.54%) ITIL
15 26 (8.23%) Analytics
16 24 (7.59%) B2B
16 24 (7.59%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.56%) Python
2 29 (9.18%) Java
3 27 (8.54%) SQL
4 22 (6.96%) C++
5 18 (5.70%) Go
6 17 (5.38%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.75%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.11%) Bash
9 12 (3.80%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.16%) C#
11 7 (2.22%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.95%) PHP
12 3 (0.95%) R
13 2 (0.63%) C
14 1 (0.32%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 81 (25.63%) Degree
2 33 (10.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.38%) Security Cleared
4 16 (5.06%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.80%) A+ Certification
6 11 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.53%) CCIE
8 7 (2.22%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.90%) CCNP
10 5 (1.58%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.27%) CCSE
11 4 (1.27%) CISSP
11 4 (1.27%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.95%) CISA
12 3 (0.95%) PMP
13 2 (0.63%) APMG
13 2 (0.63%) CCSA
13 2 (0.63%) CISM
14 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (3.48%) QA
2 10 (3.16%) GDPR
2 10 (3.16%) GRC
2 10 (3.16%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.58%) PMO
5 3 (0.95%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.63%) SLA
7 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (9.81%) Docker
2 12 (3.80%) 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 43 (13.61%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.75%) Terraform
3 12 (3.80%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.53%) Ansible
4 8 (2.53%) Grafana
5 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 40 (12.66%) SAP
2 35 (11.08%) Cisco
2 35 (11.08%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.38%) Salesforce
4 13 (4.11%) Google
5 10 (3.16%) CheckPoint
6 8 (2.53%) Palantir
7 7 (2.22%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.90%) Meraki
9 5 (1.58%) Avaya
9 5 (1.58%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.58%) F5
9 5 (1.58%) Genesys
9 5 (1.58%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.58%) Nokia
9 5 (1.58%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.58%) Splunk
10 4 (1.27%) DocuSign
11 3 (0.95%) Remedy
12 2 (0.63%) Ariba