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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 164 242
Rank change year-on-year +10 +78 -58
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 316 269 309
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.51% 2.27% 1.31%
As % of the General category 2.73% 2.97% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 189 125 238
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,600 £31,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £98,425
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -21.74%

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 11,574 9,066 15,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 55.42% 76.59% 67.80%
Number of salaries quoted 7,338 5,115 11,368
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -4.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £126,250 £119,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 27 May 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 May 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 -37 35 £45,000 -10.00% 58
West London +2 21 £55,000 -21.43% 22
East London -8 3 £20,000 -35.48% 6
South London +10 1 - - 3
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 3 (0.95%) Apache
1 3 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (6.01%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.63%) Sketch
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.53%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.32%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 25 (7.91%) AWS
2 21 (6.65%) GCP
3 19 (6.01%) SaaS
4 17 (5.38%) Azure
5 14 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (4.11%) OpenShift
7 7 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.95%) Anthos
9 3 (0.95%) Apigee
9 3 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.95%) OCI
9 3 (0.95%) Serverless
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.63%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (0.63%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.63%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (0.63%) Cloud Run
10 2 (0.63%) Figma
10 2 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.96%) Broadband
2 17 (5.38%) TCP/IP
3 16 (5.06%) Firewall
3 16 (5.06%) LAN
3 16 (5.06%) WAN
4 14 (4.43%) BGP
5 13 (4.11%) Multicast
6 12 (3.80%) 4G
6 12 (3.80%) Network Security
7 10 (3.16%) MPLS
8 9 (2.85%) Ethernet VPN
9 8 (2.53%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (2.53%) IOS XR
9 8 (2.53%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.53%) Wireless
10 7 (2.22%) VPN
11 6 (1.90%) VoIP
12 5 (1.58%) 5G
12 5 (1.58%) OSPF
12 5 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.43%) Relational Database
2 13 (4.11%) RDBMS
3 8 (2.53%) Big Data
4 7 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.95%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.63%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.63%) Metadata
6 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.63%) Redshift Spectrum
7 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.32%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (3.80%) Git
2 3 (0.95%) JIRA
2 3 (0.95%) Postman
3 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) CMake
4 1 (0.32%) Valgrind
General
1 123 (38.92%) Social Skills
2 74 (23.42%) Finance
3 36 (11.39%) Law
4 35 (11.08%) Legal
5 32 (10.13%) Billing
6 26 (8.23%) Marketing
7 19 (6.01%) Public Sector
8 17 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (5.38%) Banking
8 17 (5.38%) Retail
9 16 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (3.48%) Electronics
10 11 (3.48%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.53%) Games
12 5 (1.58%) Advertising
13 3 (0.95%) Esports
13 3 (0.95%) German Language
13 3 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (11.71%) Senior
2 36 (11.39%) Lead
3 32 (10.13%) Account Manager
4 24 (7.59%) Telecoms Manager
5 23 (7.28%) Architect
6 18 (5.70%) Telecoms Account Manager
7 15 (4.75%) Account Director
7 15 (4.75%) Developer
8 14 (4.43%) Analyst
8 14 (4.43%) IT Support
8 14 (4.43%) Senior Developer
9 13 (4.11%) Network Engineer
10 12 (3.80%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.80%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (3.48%) Consultant
11 11 (3.48%) Support Specialist
12 10 (3.16%) IT Analyst
12 10 (3.16%) IT Support Analyst
12 10 (3.16%) IT Support Specialist
12 10 (3.16%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.96%) Spring
1 22 (6.96%) Spring Boot
2 21 (6.65%) REST
3 13 (4.11%) AngularJS
3 13 (4.11%) Bootstrap
4 10 (3.16%) Kafka
5 9 (2.85%) Spring Cloud
6 8 (2.53%) gRPC
6 8 (2.53%) Jinja
6 8 (2.53%) NETCONF
6 8 (2.53%) YANG
7 7 (2.22%) WebSockets
8 6 (1.90%) RESTful
8 6 (1.90%) Spring Integration
8 6 (1.90%) Spring MVC
9 4 (1.27%) OAuth
10 3 (0.95%) Apache Camel
10 3 (0.95%) Java SE
10 3 (0.95%) JSON
10 3 (0.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.86%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.38%) Social Media
3 15 (4.75%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.80%) MPEG
5 11 (3.48%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.90%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.90%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.58%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.27%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.95%) Digital Media
10 3 (0.95%) Life Science
10 3 (0.95%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.65%) Windows
2 11 (3.48%) Android
3 4 (1.27%) Linux
3 4 (1.27%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.95%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (15.19%) Agile
2 39 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (12.03%) AI
4 35 (11.08%) Business Development
5 34 (10.76%) CRM
6 33 (10.44%) Customer Experience
7 30 (9.49%) Mentoring
8 28 (8.86%) Analytics
8 28 (8.86%) Regulatory Compliance
9 25 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (7.59%) Information Security
10 24 (7.59%) Microservices
11 23 (7.28%) IT Strategy
11 23 (7.28%) Roadmaps
12 22 (6.96%) Containerisation
13 21 (6.65%) ITIL
13 21 (6.65%) Line Management
14 20 (6.33%) B2B
14 20 (6.33%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 26 (8.23%) Python
2 23 (7.28%) Java
3 16 (5.06%) JavaScript
4 9 (2.85%) SQL
5 8 (2.53%) C++
6 6 (1.90%) Go
7 4 (1.27%) Bash
7 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.95%) PHP
8 3 (0.95%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.63%) C
9 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.32%) C#
10 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 57 (18.04%) Degree
2 14 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.16%) A+ Certification
4 10 (3.16%) CCIE
5 9 (2.85%) CCNP
6 8 (2.53%) CISSP
7 7 (2.22%) CCSE
8 6 (1.90%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.58%) CISM
10 4 (1.27%) APMG
10 4 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.27%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.27%) Security Cleared
11 3 (0.95%) ACCA
11 3 (0.95%) CCIE Security
11 3 (0.95%) CCSA
11 3 (0.95%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (7.59%) GRC
3 23 (7.28%) PCI DSS
4 13 (4.11%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.53%) SLA
6 7 (2.22%) QA
7 6 (1.90%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.90%) GDPR
8 4 (1.27%) PMO
9 3 (0.95%) IFRS
9 3 (0.95%) NIST
10 2 (0.63%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.32%) MiFID
11 1 (0.32%) NCSC
11 1 (0.32%) RMADS
11 1 (0.32%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (4.11%) Docker
2 3 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (8.23%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.16%) Terraform
3 5 (1.58%) Autotask
4 4 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.95%) Ansible
6 2 (0.63%) Grafana
6 2 (0.63%) Nagios
7 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.32%) WSUS
7 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (8.23%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.65%) Cisco
3 11 (3.48%) SAP
4 9 (2.85%) Google
5 8 (2.53%) CheckPoint
5 8 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.22%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.22%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.90%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.90%) Remedy
8 5 (1.58%) Arista
8 5 (1.58%) DocuSign
8 5 (1.58%) F5
8 5 (1.58%) Kaseya
9 4 (1.27%) Freshdesk
9 4 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.95%) BT
10 3 (0.95%) Databricks
11 2 (0.63%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.63%) VMware