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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 157 187
Rank change year-on-year +10 +30 +32
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 309 322 345
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.92% 2.22% 1.62%
As % of the General category 3.01% 2.97% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 199 116 258
10th Percentile £31,825 £40,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £97,136 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £110,000 £96,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -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 10,259 10,848 14,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 63.83% 74.67% 66.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,311 5,796 10,894
10th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £37,000
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% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,700
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 28 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 28 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 -6 35 £45,000 -10.00% 15
West London -20 14 £53,750 -23.21% 5
South London +23 5 £45,000 - 4
North London 0 1 £35,000 - 1
East London -19 1 £20,000 -35.48% 11
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 (1.62%) Apache Pulsar
1 5 (1.62%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.65%) Apache
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.97%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.97%) Maya
4 3 (0.97%) Sketch
5 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.97%) SAP IBP
1 3 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.65%) Misys Midas
2 2 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (14.56%) Azure
2 44 (14.24%) GCP
3 36 (11.65%) AWS
4 14 (4.53%) OpenShift
5 11 (3.56%) GitHub
5 11 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (3.56%) SaaS
6 9 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (1.62%) Datadog
10 4 (1.29%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.29%) Cloud Run
10 4 (1.29%) Google Compute Engine
10 4 (1.29%) IaaS
10 4 (1.29%) PaaS
11 3 (0.97%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.97%) Anthos
11 3 (0.97%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.71%) Broadband
2 20 (6.47%) Firewall
3 17 (5.50%) LAN
4 16 (5.18%) WAN
5 14 (4.53%) VoIP
6 12 (3.88%) SD-WAN
7 11 (3.56%) 4G
7 11 (3.56%) VPN
8 10 (3.24%) MPLS
9 9 (2.91%) BGP
9 9 (2.91%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (2.91%) Ethernet VPN
9 9 (2.91%) Multicast
9 9 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.59%) Ethernet
10 8 (2.59%) IOS XR
11 7 (2.27%) Network Security
12 6 (1.94%) TCP/IP
12 6 (1.94%) Wireless
12 6 (1.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.85%) Relational Database
2 13 (4.21%) RDBMS
3 9 (2.91%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.27%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.97%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (0.97%) Big Data
7 3 (0.97%) Redis
7 3 (0.97%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.65%) KNIME
8 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.65%) Power BI
8 2 (0.65%) QlikView
8 2 (0.65%) Tableau
9 1 (0.32%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (4.21%) Git
2 11 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.62%) GitLab
4 4 (1.29%) Postman
5 3 (0.97%) JIRA
6 1 (0.32%) SoapUI
General
1 122 (39.48%) Social Skills
2 83 (26.86%) Finance
3 54 (17.48%) Marketing
4 50 (16.18%) Public Sector
5 42 (13.59%) Manufacturing
6 41 (13.27%) Electronics
7 31 (10.03%) Billing
8 30 (9.71%) Law
9 29 (9.39%) Legal
10 23 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (5.50%) Banking
13 15 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (4.53%) Games
15 11 (3.56%) German Language
15 11 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (2.59%) Retail
17 5 (1.62%) Advertising
18 3 (0.97%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 71 (22.98%) Senior
2 29 (9.39%) Lead
3 26 (8.41%) Analyst
4 24 (7.77%) Account Manager
4 24 (7.77%) IT Support
5 22 (7.12%) Architect
6 20 (6.47%) Network Engineer
6 20 (6.47%) Support Analyst
6 20 (6.47%) Telecoms Manager
7 19 (6.15%) IT Analyst
7 19 (6.15%) IT Support Analyst
8 17 (5.50%) Consultant
8 17 (5.50%) Support Specialist
9 16 (5.18%) Telecoms Account Manager
10 15 (4.85%) Developer
11 14 (4.53%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.21%) IT Support Specialist
12 13 (4.21%) Security Engineer
12 13 (4.21%) Senior Security Engineer
13 12 (3.88%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.03%) REST
2 24 (7.77%) Kafka
3 22 (7.12%) RESTful
3 22 (7.12%) Spring
4 21 (6.80%) Spring Boot
5 17 (5.50%) gRPC
6 16 (5.18%) WebSockets
7 12 (3.88%) AngularJS
7 12 (3.88%) Bootstrap
8 11 (3.56%) OAuth
9 9 (2.91%) Spring Cloud
10 8 (2.59%) Jinja
10 8 (2.59%) NETCONF
10 8 (2.59%) OAuth2
10 8 (2.59%) YANG
11 6 (1.94%) JWT
11 6 (1.94%) Spring Integration
11 6 (1.94%) Spring MVC
12 5 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (1.62%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.09%) Social Media
2 22 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.15%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.50%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.21%) Video Conferencing
6 12 (3.88%) AI Agents
7 10 (3.24%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.91%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.59%) Driving Licence
9 8 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.62%) IVR
11 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.29%) IoT
11 4 (1.29%) Life Science
11 4 (1.29%) MPEG
11 4 (1.29%) Virtual Reality
12 3 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.97%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.97%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.68%) Windows
2 21 (6.80%) Android
3 11 (3.56%) Linux
4 7 (2.27%) Unix
5 5 (1.62%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.97%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (17.80%) AI
2 54 (17.48%) Agile
3 48 (15.53%) Business Development
4 43 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
5 42 (13.59%) CRM
5 42 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (13.27%) Containerisation
7 40 (12.94%) Digital Marketing
7 40 (12.94%) Microservices
7 40 (12.94%) Programme Management
8 39 (12.62%) Mentoring
9 36 (11.65%) DevOps
10 35 (11.33%) Computer Science
11 32 (10.36%) CI/CD
12 30 (9.71%) User Experience
13 29 (9.39%) Machine Learning
14 28 (9.06%) ITIL
15 25 (8.09%) Analytics
16 24 (7.77%) B2B
16 24 (7.77%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.89%) Python
2 29 (9.39%) Java
3 27 (8.74%) SQL
4 22 (7.12%) C++
5 18 (5.83%) Go
6 17 (5.50%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.21%) Bash
9 12 (3.88%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.24%) C#
11 7 (2.27%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.97%) PHP
12 3 (0.97%) R
13 2 (0.65%) C
14 1 (0.32%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 81 (26.21%) Degree
2 33 (10.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.50%) Security Cleared
4 16 (5.18%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.21%) A+ Certification
6 11 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (3.56%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.59%) CCIE
8 7 (2.27%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.94%) CCNP
9 6 (1.94%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.29%) CCSE
10 4 (1.29%) CISSP
10 4 (1.29%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.97%) CISA
11 3 (0.97%) PMP
12 2 (0.65%) APMG
12 2 (0.65%) CCSA
12 2 (0.65%) CISM
13 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.56%) QA
2 10 (3.24%) GDPR
2 10 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.91%) GRC
3 9 (2.91%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.62%) PMO
6 3 (0.97%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.65%) SLA
8 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (10.03%) Docker
2 12 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.85%) Terraform
3 12 (3.88%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.59%) Ansible
4 8 (2.59%) Grafana
5 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 42 (13.59%) SAP
2 36 (11.65%) Microsoft
3 34 (11.00%) Cisco
4 17 (5.50%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.21%) Google
6 9 (2.91%) CheckPoint
7 8 (2.59%) Palantir
8 7 (2.27%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.94%) Meraki
10 5 (1.62%) Avaya
10 5 (1.62%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.62%) F5
10 5 (1.62%) Genesys
10 5 (1.62%) Mavenir
10 5 (1.62%) Nokia
10 5 (1.62%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.62%) Splunk
11 4 (1.29%) DocuSign
12 3 (0.97%) Ariba
13 2 (0.65%) Remedy