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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 178 170
Rank change year-on-year +37 -8 +35
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 298 338 365
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.27% 1.92% 1.97%
As % of the General category 3.13% 2.74% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 200 127 270
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,400 £39,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £55,440
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £74,516 £83,750
90th Percentile £125,500 £85,000 £102,500
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 9,532 12,347 12,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 72.59% 70.30% 67.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,737 7,092 9,867
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,500 £55,345
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 £120,400 £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 28 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 28 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 +5 26 £50,000 - 29
West London -23 6 £53,750 -18.87% 9
South London +21 5 £45,000 - 4
North London +2 1 £35,000 -6.67% 1
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 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.34%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (1.01%) Confluence
5 2 (0.67%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.68%) Maya
4 7 (2.35%) Sketch
5 6 (2.01%) Adobe XD
6 5 (1.68%) MS Visio
7 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
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 (2.68%) SAP IBP
1 8 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 62 (20.81%) Azure
2 51 (17.11%) GCP
3 45 (15.10%) AWS
4 18 (6.04%) SaaS
5 11 (3.69%) PaaS
6 10 (3.36%) GitHub
6 10 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.02%) Figma
8 8 (2.68%) Datadog
9 7 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (2.35%) IaaS
10 6 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.01%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.34%) OneDrive
13 3 (1.01%) Cloudflare
13 3 (1.01%) Google Compute Engine
13 3 (1.01%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.72%) Firewall
2 16 (5.37%) LAN
2 16 (5.37%) WAN
3 12 (4.03%) SD-WAN
3 12 (4.03%) VoIP
4 11 (3.69%) Wireless
4 11 (3.69%) Wireshark
5 10 (3.36%) Broadband
6 9 (3.02%) IP Telephony
6 9 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (2.68%) Network Security
8 7 (2.35%) Internet
9 6 (2.01%) Ethernet
9 6 (2.01%) Multicast
9 6 (2.01%) VPN
10 5 (1.68%) DNS
10 5 (1.68%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.34%) BGP
11 4 (1.34%) PSTN
11 4 (1.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.04%) NoSQL
2 13 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.03%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.36%) RDBMS
5 8 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.68%) SAP BW
6 5 (1.68%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.01%) Redis
7 3 (1.01%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.67%) KNIME
8 2 (0.67%) Metadata
8 2 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.67%) Power BI
8 2 (0.67%) QlikView
8 2 (0.67%) Tableau
9 1 (0.34%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (5.37%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.36%) Git
3 5 (1.68%) GitLab
3 5 (1.68%) JIRA
4 3 (1.01%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.01%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.34%) CMake
5 1 (0.34%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.34%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.34%) Postman
5 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
General
1 134 (44.97%) Social Skills
2 124 (41.61%) Finance
3 93 (31.21%) Marketing
4 85 (28.52%) Public Sector
5 79 (26.51%) Manufacturing
6 73 (24.50%) Electronics
7 51 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (14.43%) Law
9 24 (8.05%) Banking
10 23 (7.72%) Legal
11 15 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (3.69%) Games
13 11 (3.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (3.36%) German Language
15 9 (3.02%) Automotive
15 9 (3.02%) Billing
15 9 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.68%) Retail
17 4 (1.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 76 (25.50%) Senior
2 35 (11.74%) IT Support
3 30 (10.07%) Analyst
4 23 (7.72%) Support Analyst
5 22 (7.38%) IT Manager
6 19 (6.38%) Consultant
6 19 (6.38%) IT Analyst
6 19 (6.38%) IT Support Analyst
7 18 (6.04%) Senior Manager
7 18 (6.04%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.70%) Network Engineer
9 16 (5.37%) IT Operations Manager
9 16 (5.37%) Operations Manager
10 15 (5.03%) IT Support Manager
10 15 (5.03%) Lead
10 15 (5.03%) Support Manager
11 14 (4.70%) Support Specialist
12 13 (4.36%) Security Engineer
13 12 (4.03%) Architect
13 12 (4.03%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.38%) REST
2 20 (6.71%) RESTful
3 16 (5.37%) Kafka
4 11 (3.69%) FastAPI
4 11 (3.69%) Flask
4 11 (3.69%) gRPC
5 10 (3.36%) WebSockets
6 9 (3.02%) Middleware
6 9 (3.02%) Node.js
7 8 (2.68%) OAuth
8 7 (2.35%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.34%) NumPy
10 4 (1.34%) Pandas
10 4 (1.34%) SOAP
10 4 (1.34%) Web Services
11 3 (1.01%) JWT
11 3 (1.01%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.67%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.05%) Data Centre
1 24 (8.05%) Onboarding
2 18 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.03%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.70%) Mobile App
5 12 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.03%) Video Conferencing
6 11 (3.69%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.69%) Social Media
7 10 (3.36%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.68%) PMI
8 8 (2.68%) Reinsurance
8 8 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.01%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.68%) IVR
10 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.01%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.01%) VUI
12 3 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.42%) Windows
2 20 (6.71%) Linux
3 17 (5.70%) Android
4 7 (2.35%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (25.84%) Programme Management
2 76 (25.50%) Business Intelligence
3 73 (24.50%) Digital Marketing
4 70 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (21.48%) AI
6 45 (15.10%) Project Management
7 42 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
8 41 (13.76%) ITIL
9 40 (13.42%) Agile
10 38 (12.75%) Project Delivery
11 37 (12.42%) Business Development
12 36 (12.08%) Analytics
12 36 (12.08%) CI/CD
13 35 (11.74%) CRM
13 35 (11.74%) High Availability
13 35 (11.74%) Machine Learning
14 34 (11.41%) DevOps
15 33 (11.07%) Computer Science
16 31 (10.40%) Containerisation
16 31 (10.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 66 (22.15%) Python
2 28 (9.40%) SQL
3 19 (6.38%) Bash
4 17 (5.70%) C++
5 16 (5.37%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.03%) Go
7 11 (3.69%) Java
8 10 (3.36%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.02%) C#
10 4 (1.34%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.01%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.01%) R
12 2 (0.67%) C
13 1 (0.34%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 83 (27.85%) Degree
2 27 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 27 (9.06%) PMI Certification
3 24 (8.05%) Security Cleared
4 23 (7.72%) SC Cleared
5 19 (6.38%) CISSP
5 19 (6.38%) PMP
6 15 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (3.69%) A+ Certification
9 9 (3.02%) CCNP
10 8 (2.68%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.01%) CCIE
12 3 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.01%) CCNA
12 3 (1.01%) CCSP
12 3 (1.01%) GCIH
12 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.67%) CCSA
13 2 (0.67%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.08%) QA
2 31 (10.40%) GDPR
3 20 (6.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 16 (5.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (4.03%) GAAP
6 10 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.68%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.35%) NIST
9 5 (1.68%) EU AI Act
10 3 (1.01%) PMO
10 3 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (10.40%) Docker
2 16 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (11.74%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.07%) Terraform
3 17 (5.70%) Ansible
4 11 (3.69%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.68%) Grafana
6 7 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.01%) Nmap
8 2 (0.67%) WSUS
9 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.34%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 79 (26.51%) SAP
2 44 (14.77%) Microsoft
3 33 (11.07%) Cisco
4 26 (8.72%) Google
5 18 (6.04%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.69%) CheckPoint
7 10 (3.36%) Meraki
7 10 (3.36%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.68%) Ariba
8 8 (2.68%) SolarWinds
9 7 (2.35%) Adobe
9 7 (2.35%) Palantir
10 6 (2.01%) Avaya
11 5 (1.68%) Splunk
12 4 (1.34%) Ericsson
12 4 (1.34%) Genesys
12 4 (1.34%) Juniper
12 4 (1.34%) Mavenir
12 4 (1.34%) Nokia
12 4 (1.34%) ServiceNow