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 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 158 189
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 +21
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 292 332 356
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.87% 2.22% 1.69%
As % of the General category 2.89% 3.00% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 189 119 266
10th Percentile £31,825 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £99,273 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £105,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £51,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -17.07% +13.89% -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 10,093 11,076 13,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 64.60% 74.19% 65.86%
Number of salaries quoted 6,217 5,811 10,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,840 £37,075
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +4.83% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -5 34 £45,000 -10.00% 29
West London -23 11 £53,750 -23.21% 4
South London +23 5 £45,000 - 3
North London +2 1 £35,000 - 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 (1.71%) Apache Pulsar
1 5 (1.71%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.68%) Apache
3 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) CMS
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (6.16%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.37%) Maya
4 3 (1.03%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.03%) Sketch
5 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) SAP IBP
1 4 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.68%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (16.44%) Azure
2 45 (15.41%) GCP
3 35 (11.99%) AWS
4 12 (4.11%) OpenShift
5 11 (3.77%) GitHub
5 11 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (3.42%) SaaS
7 9 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.71%) Datadog
10 5 (1.71%) IaaS
10 5 (1.71%) PaaS
11 4 (1.37%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.37%) Cloud Run
11 4 (1.37%) Google Compute Engine
12 3 (1.03%) Anthos
12 3 (1.03%) Apigee
12 3 (1.03%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.27%) Broadband
2 22 (7.53%) Firewall
3 18 (6.16%) LAN
4 17 (5.82%) WAN
5 14 (4.79%) VoIP
6 13 (4.45%) SD-WAN
7 11 (3.77%) VPN
8 10 (3.42%) 4G
8 10 (3.42%) MPLS
9 9 (3.08%) BGP
9 9 (3.08%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (3.08%) Ethernet VPN
9 9 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.74%) Ethernet
10 8 (2.74%) IOS XR
10 8 (2.74%) Wireless
10 8 (2.74%) Wireshark
11 6 (2.05%) IP Telephony
11 6 (2.05%) Multicast
11 6 (2.05%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.79%) Relational Database
2 12 (4.11%) RDBMS
3 10 (3.42%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.40%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.37%) SAP BW
8 3 (1.03%) Redis
9 2 (0.68%) Big Data
9 2 (0.68%) KNIME
9 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.68%) Power BI
9 2 (0.68%) QlikView
9 2 (0.68%) Tableau
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.34%) Apache Hudi
10 1 (0.34%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.34%) Metadata
10 1 (0.34%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 13 (4.45%) Git
2 11 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.71%) GitLab
4 4 (1.37%) Postman
5 3 (1.03%) JIRA
6 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
General
1 112 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 87 (29.79%) Finance
3 58 (19.86%) Marketing
4 52 (17.81%) Public Sector
5 46 (15.75%) Manufacturing
6 44 (15.07%) Electronics
7 28 (9.59%) Billing
8 24 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (7.88%) Law
10 22 (7.53%) Legal
11 18 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (5.82%) Banking
13 14 (4.79%) Games
13 14 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (3.42%) German Language
14 10 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (2.40%) Retail
16 4 (1.37%) Advertising
16 4 (1.37%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 70 (23.97%) Senior
2 27 (9.25%) Analyst
2 27 (9.25%) Lead
3 23 (7.88%) IT Support
4 22 (7.53%) Architect
5 21 (7.19%) Account Manager
5 21 (7.19%) Network Engineer
5 21 (7.19%) Support Analyst
6 19 (6.51%) Telecoms Manager
7 18 (6.16%) IT Analyst
7 18 (6.16%) IT Support Analyst
8 15 (5.14%) Consultant
8 15 (5.14%) Software Engineer
8 15 (5.14%) Support Specialist
8 15 (5.14%) Telecoms Account Manager
9 14 (4.79%) Developer
9 14 (4.79%) Security Engineer
10 13 (4.45%) Senior Security Engineer
11 12 (4.11%) Android Engineer
11 12 (4.11%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.27%) REST
2 24 (8.22%) Kafka
3 23 (7.88%) RESTful
4 20 (6.85%) Spring
5 19 (6.51%) Spring Boot
6 17 (5.82%) gRPC
7 16 (5.48%) WebSockets
8 11 (3.77%) OAuth
9 10 (3.42%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.42%) Bootstrap
10 9 (3.08%) Spring Cloud
11 8 (2.74%) Jinja
11 8 (2.74%) NETCONF
11 8 (2.74%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.74%) YANG
12 6 (2.05%) JWT
12 6 (2.05%) Spring Integration
12 6 (2.05%) Spring MVC
13 5 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (1.71%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.22%) Social Media
2 22 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.16%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.82%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.11%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.77%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.08%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.74%) Driving Licence
8 8 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.71%) IVR
11 4 (1.37%) PMI
11 4 (1.37%) Reinsurance
12 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.03%) IoT
12 3 (1.03%) Life Science
12 3 (1.03%) TM Forum
12 3 (1.03%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.96%) Windows
2 21 (7.19%) Android
3 12 (4.11%) Linux
4 7 (2.40%) Unix
5 5 (1.71%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (19.18%) AI
2 53 (18.15%) Agile
3 46 (15.75%) Business Development
3 46 (15.75%) Business Intelligence
4 44 (15.07%) Digital Marketing
4 44 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (14.73%) Programme Management
6 41 (14.04%) CRM
7 40 (13.70%) Containerisation
8 38 (13.01%) Mentoring
8 38 (13.01%) Microservices
9 37 (12.67%) DevOps
10 34 (11.64%) Computer Science
11 33 (11.30%) CI/CD
12 31 (10.62%) User Experience
13 29 (9.93%) Machine Learning
14 26 (8.90%) ITIL
15 23 (7.88%) B2B
15 23 (7.88%) Roadmaps
15 23 (7.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (16.78%) Python
2 27 (9.25%) Java
2 27 (9.25%) SQL
3 22 (7.53%) C++
4 18 (6.16%) Go
5 16 (5.48%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.14%) Bash
6 15 (5.14%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.11%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.42%) C#
9 7 (2.40%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.03%) PHP
10 3 (1.03%) R
11 2 (0.68%) C
12 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 72 (24.66%) Degree
2 32 (10.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.16%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.82%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.77%) A+ Certification
7 10 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.40%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.40%) PMI Certification
9 6 (2.05%) CCIE
10 5 (1.71%) CCNP
11 4 (1.37%) CISSP
11 4 (1.37%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.03%) CCSE
12 3 (1.03%) PMP
13 2 (0.68%) CCSA
14 1 (0.34%) GCIH
14 1 (0.34%) LPIC
14 1 (0.34%) MBA
14 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.11%) QA
2 11 (3.77%) GDPR
3 8 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.05%) GRC
4 6 (2.05%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.71%) PMO
6 3 (1.03%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.68%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (10.96%) Docker
2 13 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (14.38%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.48%) Terraform
3 12 (4.11%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.74%) Ansible
4 8 (2.74%) Grafana
4 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.34%) Nmap
5 1 (0.34%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 46 (15.75%) SAP
2 36 (12.33%) Microsoft
3 35 (11.99%) Cisco
4 17 (5.82%) Salesforce
5 15 (5.14%) Google
6 10 (3.42%) CheckPoint
7 8 (2.74%) Meraki
7 8 (2.74%) Palantir
7 8 (2.74%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.40%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.71%) Avaya
9 5 (1.71%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.71%) Genesys
9 5 (1.71%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.71%) Nokia
9 5 (1.71%) Splunk
10 4 (1.37%) Ariba
10 4 (1.37%) F5
11 3 (1.03%) DocuSign
12 2 (0.68%) CA Agile Central