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 27 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 176 227
Rank change year-on-year +29 +51 -20
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 324 256 323
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.64% 2.00% 1.39%
As % of the General category 2.84% 2.62% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 202 124 247
10th Percentile £32,750 £39,125 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £108,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 11,408 9,768 15,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 57.65% 76.15% 67.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6,999 5,634 11,334
10th Percentile £37,750 £41,275 £36,250
25th Percentile £54,633 £56,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -5.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £125,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.87%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -23 32 £45,000 -10.00% 28
West London -6 18 £26,200 -62.57% 11
East London -9 3 £20,000 -35.48% 4
South London - 1 - - 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 (1.54%) Apache Pulsar
2 3 (0.93%) Apache
2 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (4.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.93%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.93%) Sketch
5 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.62%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 36 (11.11%) GCP
2 34 (10.49%) AWS
3 33 (10.19%) Azure
4 16 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (4.63%) SaaS
6 14 (4.32%) OpenShift
7 8 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (2.47%) GitHub
7 8 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.16%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.54%) PaaS
10 4 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.23%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.23%) Cloud Run
10 4 (1.23%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (0.93%) Anthos
11 3 (0.93%) Apigee
11 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.93%) Figma
11 3 (0.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.79%) Broadband
2 17 (5.25%) LAN
3 16 (4.94%) WAN
4 15 (4.63%) Firewall
5 14 (4.32%) Multicast
6 13 (4.01%) VoIP
7 12 (3.70%) 4G
7 12 (3.70%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.09%) BGP
8 10 (3.09%) MPLS
8 10 (3.09%) Network Security
9 9 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (2.47%) IOS XR
11 7 (2.16%) SD-WAN
11 7 (2.16%) VPN
12 4 (1.23%) 5G
12 4 (1.23%) Ethernet
12 4 (1.23%) PBX
12 4 (1.23%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.63%) Relational Database
2 13 (4.01%) RDBMS
3 7 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (2.16%) Apache Iceberg
4 6 (1.85%) Big Data
5 5 (1.54%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.54%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.93%) Redis
7 2 (0.62%) Apache Hudi
7 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.62%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.62%) Metadata
7 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.62%) Redshift Spectrum
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (4.32%) Git
2 8 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.54%) JIRA
4 3 (0.93%) Postman
5 2 (0.62%) GitLab
General
1 120 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 77 (23.77%) Finance
3 35 (10.80%) Marketing
4 34 (10.49%) Billing
4 34 (10.49%) Legal
5 33 (10.19%) Law
6 29 (8.95%) Public Sector
7 23 (7.10%) Electronics
8 20 (6.17%) Manufacturing
8 20 (6.17%) Retail
9 19 (5.86%) Banking
10 18 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (3.09%) Games
14 5 (1.54%) German Language
14 5 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.23%) Advertising
16 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (19.75%) Senior
2 38 (11.73%) Lead
3 27 (8.33%) Account Manager
4 23 (7.10%) Telecoms Manager
5 20 (6.17%) Architect
6 18 (5.56%) Telecoms Account Manager
7 17 (5.25%) IT Support
8 16 (4.94%) Analyst
8 16 (4.94%) Network Engineer
9 15 (4.63%) Developer
10 13 (4.01%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.01%) Security Engineer
10 13 (4.01%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.01%) Senior Security Engineer
10 13 (4.01%) Support Specialist
11 12 (3.70%) Consultant
11 12 (3.70%) IT Support Analyst
11 12 (3.70%) IT Support Specialist
11 12 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
11 12 (3.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.26%) REST
2 25 (7.72%) Kafka
3 23 (7.10%) Spring
4 22 (6.79%) Spring Boot
5 21 (6.48%) RESTful
6 17 (5.25%) gRPC
7 16 (4.94%) WebSockets
8 13 (4.01%) AngularJS
8 13 (4.01%) Bootstrap
9 11 (3.40%) OAuth
10 9 (2.78%) Spring Cloud
11 8 (2.47%) Jinja
11 8 (2.47%) NETCONF
11 8 (2.47%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.47%) YANG
12 6 (1.85%) JWT
12 6 (1.85%) Spring Integration
12 6 (1.85%) Spring MVC
13 5 (1.54%) Node.js
14 4 (1.23%) Android NDK
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.10%) Data Centre
2 21 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.86%) Social Media
4 18 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.01%) AI Agents
6 12 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
7 10 (3.09%) MPEG
8 9 (2.78%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.47%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.54%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.23%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.23%) IVR
11 4 (1.23%) TM Forum
11 4 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
12 3 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.93%) IoT
12 3 (0.93%) Life Science
13 2 (0.62%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.41%) Windows
2 21 (6.48%) Android
3 8 (2.47%) Linux
4 5 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.62%) Unix
6 2 (0.62%) VMS
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (17.90%) AI
2 48 (14.81%) Agile
3 40 (12.35%) Microservices
4 39 (12.04%) Business Development
5 37 (11.42%) Containerisation
5 37 (11.42%) Mentoring
6 36 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (10.80%) CRM
8 34 (10.49%) Computer Science
8 34 (10.49%) DevOps
9 31 (9.57%) Machine Learning
10 29 (8.95%) CI/CD
11 28 (8.64%) Information Security
12 27 (8.33%) Analytics
13 26 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (8.02%) Regulatory Compliance
14 25 (7.72%) ITIL
15 24 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (7.41%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.49%) Python
2 26 (8.02%) Java
3 18 (5.56%) C++
3 18 (5.56%) Go
3 18 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 16 (4.94%) SQL
5 9 (2.78%) Bash
5 9 (2.78%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.16%) C#
6 7 (2.16%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.54%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.93%) PHP
9 1 (0.31%) C
9 1 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 76 (23.46%) Degree
2 32 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (3.70%) A+ Certification
5 11 (3.40%) CCIE
6 9 (2.78%) CCNP
6 9 (2.78%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.78%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.47%) CCSE
7 8 (2.47%) CISSP
8 7 (2.16%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.85%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.54%) CISM
11 4 (1.23%) APMG
11 4 (1.23%) CCSA
11 4 (1.23%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.93%) CISA
13 2 (0.62%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (6.48%) GRC
2 21 (6.48%) PCI DSS
3 11 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.78%) QA
5 6 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.85%) SLA
6 5 (1.54%) GDPR
7 3 (0.93%) NIST
7 3 (0.93%) PMO
8 2 (0.62%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.31%) RMADS
9 1 (0.31%) SOC 1
9 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (8.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (12.35%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.32%) Terraform
3 9 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.16%) Ansible
5 5 (1.54%) Autotask
5 5 (1.54%) Grafana
6 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (8.33%) Cisco
1 27 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.48%) SAP
3 11 (3.40%) Google
4 9 (2.78%) CheckPoint
5 7 (2.16%) F5
5 7 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.85%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.85%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.54%) Ericsson
7 5 (1.54%) Kaseya
7 5 (1.54%) Mavenir
7 5 (1.54%) Nokia
7 5 (1.54%) Palantir
8 4 (1.23%) Arista
8 4 (1.23%) Avaya
8 4 (1.23%) DocuSign
8 4 (1.23%) Genesys
9 3 (0.93%) Remedy
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle