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 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 171 161
Rank change year-on-year +29 -10 +69
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 296 334 395
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.31% 1.91% 2.07%
As % of the General category 3.09% 2.76% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 191 129 284
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £55,440
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -17.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £94,000 £101,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%

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 9,573 12,082 13,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 74.56% 69.20% 68.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,735 7,002 10,171
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,400 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +18 29 £50,000 - 84
South London +11 6 £45,000 -
West London -23 6 £53,750 -18.87% 12
North London -6 1 £35,000 -6.67% 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 10 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Pulsar
3 3 (1.01%) Confluence
4 2 (0.68%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.70%) Maya
5 7 (2.36%) Sketch
6 6 (2.03%) Adobe XD
6 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (1.35%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.34%) InDesign
8 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.70%) SAP IBP
1 8 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 57 (19.26%) Azure
2 45 (15.20%) GCP
3 43 (14.53%) AWS
4 19 (6.42%) SaaS
5 10 (3.38%) PaaS
6 9 (3.04%) Figma
6 9 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.36%) Datadog
7 7 (2.36%) GitHub
7 7 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.03%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.03%) IaaS
9 5 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (1.69%) Serverless
10 4 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.35%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.01%) Cloudflare
11 3 (1.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.46%) Firewall
2 16 (5.41%) LAN
2 16 (5.41%) WAN
3 12 (4.05%) SD-WAN
4 11 (3.72%) Broadband
4 11 (3.72%) Wireless
5 10 (3.38%) Network Security
5 10 (3.38%) VoIP
5 10 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (3.38%) Wireshark
6 9 (3.04%) IP Telephony
7 8 (2.70%) VPN
8 7 (2.36%) BGP
8 7 (2.36%) Internet
8 7 (2.36%) TCP/IP
9 6 (2.03%) DNS
10 5 (1.69%) Ethernet
11 4 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (1.35%) OSPF
11 4 (1.35%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.08%) NoSQL
2 15 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.72%) RDBMS
3 11 (3.72%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.70%) SAP BW
5 4 (1.35%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.01%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.01%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.68%) KNIME
7 2 (0.68%) Metadata
7 2 (0.68%) Power BI
7 2 (0.68%) QlikView
7 2 (0.68%) Redis
7 2 (0.68%) Tableau
8 1 (0.34%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.72%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.04%) Git
3 4 (1.35%) GitLab
4 3 (1.01%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.01%) JIRA
4 3 (1.01%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.34%) CMake
5 1 (0.34%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.34%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.34%) Postman
5 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 140 (47.30%) Social Skills
2 130 (43.92%) Finance
3 98 (33.11%) Marketing
4 90 (30.41%) Public Sector
5 84 (28.38%) Manufacturing
6 77 (26.01%) Electronics
7 53 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (14.53%) Law
9 27 (9.12%) Banking
10 24 (8.11%) Legal
11 16 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (3.72%) Games
12 11 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (3.38%) German Language
14 9 (3.04%) Automotive
14 9 (3.04%) Billing
14 9 (3.04%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (2.03%) Retail
17 4 (1.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 67 (22.64%) Senior
2 39 (13.18%) IT Support
3 31 (10.47%) Analyst
4 25 (8.45%) IT Manager
4 25 (8.45%) Support Analyst
5 21 (7.09%) IT Analyst
5 21 (7.09%) IT Support Analyst
6 19 (6.42%) Consultant
6 19 (6.42%) IT Operations Manager
6 19 (6.42%) Network Engineer
6 19 (6.42%) Operations Manager
7 18 (6.08%) IT Support Manager
7 18 (6.08%) Senior Manager
7 18 (6.08%) Software Engineer
7 18 (6.08%) Support Manager
8 16 (5.41%) Support Specialist
9 14 (4.73%) Lead
10 13 (4.39%) Developer
10 13 (4.39%) IT Support Specialist
11 12 (4.05%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.09%) REST
2 17 (5.74%) RESTful
3 14 (4.73%) FastAPI
4 12 (4.05%) Flask
4 12 (4.05%) Kafka
5 10 (3.38%) Node.js
6 9 (3.04%) Middleware
7 8 (2.70%) gRPC
8 7 (2.36%) WebSockets
9 6 (2.03%) OAuth
10 5 (1.69%) OAuth2
11 4 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.35%) NumPy
11 4 (1.35%) Pandas
11 4 (1.35%) SOAP
11 4 (1.35%) Web Services
12 3 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (1.01%) Spring
12 3 (1.01%) Spring Boot
13 2 (0.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.12%) Data Centre
2 23 (7.77%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.07%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.73%) Video Conferencing
5 13 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.39%) Mobile App
6 12 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.38%) Social Media
8 9 (3.04%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.70%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.70%) PMI
9 8 (2.70%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.69%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.69%) IVR
10 5 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.01%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.01%) VUI
12 3 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.51%) Windows
2 17 (5.74%) Linux
3 14 (4.73%) Android
4 7 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.03%) Unix
6 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (27.70%) Programme Management
2 81 (27.36%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (26.35%) Digital Marketing
4 74 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (19.93%) AI
6 49 (16.55%) Project Management
7 45 (15.20%) ITIL
8 44 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
9 42 (14.19%) Agile
10 40 (13.51%) Project Delivery
11 35 (11.82%) Business Development
11 35 (11.82%) CRM
12 32 (10.81%) Analytics
12 32 (10.81%) CI/CD
12 32 (10.81%) High Availability
12 32 (10.81%) Machine Learning
13 30 (10.14%) DevOps
13 30 (10.14%) Incident Management
14 28 (9.46%) User Experience
15 27 (9.12%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (22.97%) Python
2 28 (9.46%) SQL
3 16 (5.41%) Bash
3 16 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.73%) C++
5 13 (4.39%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.72%) Go
6 11 (3.72%) Java
7 8 (2.70%) C#
8 3 (1.01%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.01%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.01%) R
9 2 (0.68%) C
10 1 (0.34%) Bicep
10 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 78 (26.35%) Degree
2 32 (10.81%) PMI Certification
3 28 (9.46%) Security Cleared
4 25 (8.45%) SC Cleared
5 24 (8.11%) PMP
6 22 (7.43%) CISSP
7 19 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (5.74%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (5.74%) DV Cleared
9 13 (4.39%) A+ Certification
10 11 (3.72%) CCNP
11 7 (2.36%) CCIE
11 7 (2.36%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.69%) CCNA
13 3 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.01%) CCSP
13 3 (1.01%) GCIH
13 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.68%) Dell Certification
14 2 (0.68%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.84%) QA
2 33 (11.15%) GDPR
3 23 (7.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (6.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (4.39%) GAAP
6 10 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.70%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.36%) NIST
9 5 (1.69%) EU AI Act
10 3 (1.01%) PMO
10 3 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (9.12%) Docker
2 15 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.78%) Terraform
3 16 (5.41%) Ansible
4 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.36%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.03%) Grafana
6 3 (1.01%) Nmap
7 2 (0.68%) WSUS
8 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.34%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 84 (28.38%) SAP
2 43 (14.53%) Microsoft
3 36 (12.16%) Cisco
4 25 (8.45%) Google
5 18 (6.08%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.05%) CheckPoint
7 11 (3.72%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.38%) Meraki
9 9 (3.04%) Palantir
9 9 (3.04%) SolarWinds
10 8 (2.70%) Ariba
11 7 (2.36%) Adobe
12 6 (2.03%) Avaya
13 5 (1.69%) ServiceNow
14 4 (1.35%) Citrix
14 4 (1.35%) Genesys
14 4 (1.35%) Juniper
14 4 (1.35%) Nokia
14 4 (1.35%) OpenAI
14 4 (1.35%) Splunk