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 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 135 247
Rank change year-on-year -33 +112 -93
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 321 311 239
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.35% 2.55% 1.22%
As % of the General category 2.50% 3.37% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 187 170 172
10th Percentile £31,400 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,375
Median % change year-on-year - +4.21% -10.89%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,500 £96,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%

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 12,820 9,216 13,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 53.82% 75.66% 69.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,975 5,557 8,731
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,503
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £123,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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% 42
West London -8 17 £55,000 - 14
South London +11 8 £70,000 -12.50% 4
East London -7 4 £29,000 -6.45% 10
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 (3.12%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.93%) Apache
3 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) JBoss
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (8.10%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (7.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (4.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.93%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.93%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (2.49%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (12.46%) AWS
2 37 (11.53%) Azure
3 25 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (6.54%) SaaS
5 15 (4.67%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.05%) GCP
6 13 (4.05%) Serverless
7 11 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.12%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.80%) OneDrive
10 7 (2.18%) Amazon Bedrock
10 7 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.18%) Azure AI
10 7 (2.18%) LangSmith
11 6 (1.87%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.25%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.25%) WeChat
14 3 (0.93%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.28%) Firewall
2 32 (9.97%) LAN
3 31 (9.66%) TCP/IP
4 30 (9.35%) WAN
5 26 (8.10%) Network Security
6 17 (5.30%) Multicast
6 17 (5.30%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (4.36%) SD-WAN
8 13 (4.05%) DNS
9 12 (3.74%) DHCP
9 12 (3.74%) Wireless
10 10 (3.12%) VoIP
11 9 (2.80%) BGP
11 9 (2.80%) Structured Cabling
12 8 (2.49%) 3GPP
12 8 (2.49%) Broadband
12 8 (2.49%) OSPF
13 7 (2.18%) GSM
13 7 (2.18%) UMTS
13 7 (2.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (2.80%) Big Data
2 8 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (2.49%) Apache Iceberg
2 8 (2.49%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.18%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.87%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.93%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.93%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.93%) Metadata
5 3 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.62%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.62%) Redshift Spectrum
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 12 (3.74%) Git
2 8 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.18%) GCC
3 7 (2.18%) GDB
4 4 (1.25%) JIRA
5 1 (0.31%) CMake
5 1 (0.31%) Maven
5 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
General
1 127 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 80 (24.92%) Finance
3 48 (14.95%) Law
4 38 (11.84%) Legal
5 31 (9.66%) Banking
6 30 (9.35%) Retail
7 25 (7.79%) Marketing
8 24 (7.48%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (6.54%) Public Sector
10 20 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (5.61%) Billing
12 17 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (2.49%) Military
16 6 (1.87%) Advertising
17 4 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
17 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.93%) Arabic Language
18 3 (0.93%) French Language
Job Titles
1 32 (9.97%) Senior
2 26 (8.10%) Account Manager
3 25 (7.79%) Lead
4 18 (5.61%) Network Engineer
5 15 (4.67%) Account Director
5 15 (4.67%) Consultant
6 14 (4.36%) Analyst
6 14 (4.36%) Architect
6 14 (4.36%) Project Manager
7 13 (4.05%) Development Manager
8 12 (3.74%) Business Development Manager
8 12 (3.74%) Business Manager
8 12 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (3.43%) Software Engineer
10 9 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (2.80%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (2.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (2.80%) Solutions Consultant
10 9 (2.80%) Telecoms Manager
11 8 (2.49%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.18%) FastAPI
1 7 (2.18%) LangChain
1 7 (2.18%) LangGraph
1 7 (2.18%) STL
2 6 (1.87%) AngularJS
2 6 (1.87%) Bootstrap
2 6 (1.87%) REST
2 6 (1.87%) Spring
2 6 (1.87%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.93%) Google Maps API
3 3 (0.93%) Kafka
3 3 (0.93%) React
4 2 (0.62%) gRPC
5 1 (0.31%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.31%) Drools
5 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.31%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.31%) PySpark
5 1 (0.31%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.31%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.59%) Data Centre
2 31 (9.66%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.98%) MPEG
5 11 (3.43%) Driving Licence
5 11 (3.43%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (3.12%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.80%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.18%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.18%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.87%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.56%) Blog
10 5 (1.56%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.56%) Social Media
10 5 (1.56%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (1.25%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (1.25%) CCTV
11 4 (1.25%) IoT
11 4 (1.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.79%) Windows
2 12 (3.74%) Linux
3 10 (3.12%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (15.89%) AI
3 42 (13.08%) Cybersecurity
4 38 (11.84%) Analytics
5 37 (11.53%) Presales
6 36 (11.21%) Project Delivery
7 35 (10.90%) Business Development
8 34 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (9.97%) Regulatory Compliance
10 31 (9.66%) Agile
11 30 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (8.72%) Customer Experience
12 28 (8.72%) Roadmaps
13 27 (8.41%) CRM
14 26 (8.10%) IT Strategy
15 23 (7.17%) ITIL
15 23 (7.17%) Technology Strategy
16 22 (6.85%) CI/CD
16 22 (6.85%) Computer Science
16 22 (6.85%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (9.97%) Python
2 10 (3.12%) SQL
3 9 (2.80%) Java
4 8 (2.49%) C++
5 6 (1.87%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.93%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.62%) C
8 1 (0.31%) Bash
8 1 (0.31%) Go
8 1 (0.31%) Perl
8 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) ProC
Qualifications
1 68 (21.18%) Degree
2 27 (8.41%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (7.17%) CCNP
4 16 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.43%) CCIE
5 11 (3.43%) CISSP
6 9 (2.80%) CCSE
6 9 (2.80%) CISM
6 9 (2.80%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.49%) CCNA
8 7 (2.18%) A+ Certification
9 6 (1.87%) APMG
9 6 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.87%) SC Cleared
10 5 (1.56%) BICSI Certification
11 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.25%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.25%) PMP
11 4 (1.25%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (6.54%) GRC
3 19 (5.92%) PCI DSS
4 16 (4.98%) Accessibility
5 13 (4.05%) SLA
6 11 (3.43%) QA
7 6 (1.87%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.56%) GDPR
8 5 (1.56%) NIST
9 3 (0.93%) IFRS
9 3 (0.93%) NCSC
9 3 (0.93%) NEBOSH
9 3 (0.93%) PMO
10 2 (0.62%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.31%) MiFID
11 1 (0.31%) RMADS
11 1 (0.31%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (4.67%) Active Directory
1 15 (4.67%) Docker
2 8 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.87%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.25%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (7.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.80%) Terraform
3 7 (2.18%) Ansible
4 5 (1.56%) Autotask
5 3 (0.93%) WSUS
6 2 (0.62%) Grafana
6 2 (0.62%) Nagios
6 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.35%) Cisco
3 16 (4.98%) VMware
4 15 (4.67%) Fortinet
5 13 (4.05%) CheckPoint
6 12 (3.74%) Palo Alto
7 11 (3.43%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.12%) Veritas
9 9 (2.80%) F5
9 9 (2.80%) Zscaler
10 8 (2.49%) Arista
10 8 (2.49%) Google
10 8 (2.49%) HubSpot
11 7 (2.18%) Citrix
11 7 (2.18%) DocuSign
11 7 (2.18%) HP
12 6 (1.87%) Juniper
13 5 (1.56%) Kaseya
13 5 (1.56%) ServiceNow
14 4 (1.25%) Remedy