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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 142 250
Rank change year-on-year -35 +108 -97
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 313 310 234
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.31% 2.56% 1.20%
As % of the General category 2.44% 3.38% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 185 170 167
10th Percentile £32,600 £37,375 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,500 £97,600
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%

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 12,819 9,175 13,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 53.46% 75.64% 69.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7,995 5,533 8,617
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,701 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 August 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 August 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 -19 30 £45,000 -10.00% 49
West London -5 17 £55,000 - 11
South London +11 8 £70,000 -12.50% 3
East London - 4 £29,000 - 9
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 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.64%) Apache
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.32%) JBoss
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (8.31%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (4.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.96%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.96%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (2.56%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (12.46%) AWS
2 36 (11.50%) Azure
3 25 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (6.39%) SaaS
5 14 (4.47%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.15%) GCP
7 12 (3.83%) Serverless
8 10 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.19%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.88%) OneDrive
10 7 (2.24%) Amazon Bedrock
10 7 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.24%) Azure AI
10 7 (2.24%) LangSmith
11 4 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.28%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.28%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.28%) WeChat
12 3 (0.96%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.22%) Firewall
2 31 (9.90%) LAN
3 30 (9.58%) TCP/IP
4 29 (9.27%) WAN
5 24 (7.67%) Network Security
6 17 (5.43%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (5.11%) Multicast
8 13 (4.15%) DNS
8 13 (4.15%) SD-WAN
9 12 (3.83%) DHCP
9 12 (3.83%) Wireless
10 10 (3.19%) VoIP
11 9 (2.88%) BGP
11 9 (2.88%) Structured Cabling
12 8 (2.56%) 3GPP
12 8 (2.56%) Broadband
12 8 (2.56%) OSPF
13 7 (2.24%) GSM
13 7 (2.24%) UMTS
13 7 (2.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 8 (2.56%) Big Data
1 8 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (2.24%) Apache Iceberg
3 5 (1.60%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.28%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.96%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.64%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.64%) Metadata
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.32%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.32%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (3.51%) Git
2 8 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.24%) GCC
3 7 (2.24%) GDB
4 4 (1.28%) JIRA
5 1 (0.32%) CMake
5 1 (0.32%) Maven
5 1 (0.32%) Valgrind
General
1 123 (39.30%) Social Skills
2 79 (25.24%) Finance
3 47 (15.02%) Law
4 36 (11.50%) Legal
5 30 (9.58%) Banking
5 30 (9.58%) Retail
6 25 (7.99%) Marketing
7 21 (6.71%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (6.07%) Public Sector
9 18 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (4.47%) Billing
11 10 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (2.56%) Military
14 5 (1.60%) Advertising
15 4 (1.28%) Arabic Language
15 4 (1.28%) Mandarin Language
15 4 (1.28%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (9.58%) Senior
2 26 (8.31%) Lead
3 23 (7.35%) Account Manager
4 18 (5.75%) Network Engineer
5 16 (5.11%) Consultant
6 15 (4.79%) Account Director
6 15 (4.79%) Project Manager
7 14 (4.47%) Analyst
8 13 (4.15%) Architect
8 13 (4.15%) Development Manager
9 12 (3.83%) Business Development Manager
9 12 (3.83%) Business Manager
9 12 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.51%) Software Engineer
11 9 (2.88%) Installations Engineer
11 9 (2.88%) Operations Engineer
11 9 (2.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (2.88%) Solutions Consultant
12 8 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (2.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.24%) FastAPI
1 7 (2.24%) LangChain
1 7 (2.24%) LangGraph
1 7 (2.24%) STL
2 4 (1.28%) AngularJS
2 4 (1.28%) Bootstrap
2 4 (1.28%) REST
2 4 (1.28%) Spring
2 4 (1.28%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.96%) Google Maps API
3 3 (0.96%) React
4 2 (0.64%) gRPC
4 2 (0.64%) Kafka
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.32%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.32%) PySpark
5 1 (0.32%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.50%) Data Centre
2 32 (10.22%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (4.79%) MPEG
5 11 (3.51%) Driving Licence
5 11 (3.51%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (3.19%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.56%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.24%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.92%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.60%) Blog
10 5 (1.60%) CCTV
10 5 (1.60%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.60%) Social Media
11 4 (1.28%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.28%) IoT
11 4 (1.28%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.28%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.99%) Windows
2 12 (3.83%) Linux
3 10 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (16.29%) AI
3 41 (13.10%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (11.82%) Presales
4 37 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (11.50%) Analytics
5 36 (11.50%) Project Delivery
6 32 (10.22%) Business Development
7 30 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (9.58%) Regulatory Compliance
8 29 (9.27%) Agile
8 29 (9.27%) Customer Experience
9 26 (8.31%) Roadmaps
10 25 (7.99%) IT Strategy
10 25 (7.99%) ITIL
11 24 (7.67%) CRM
12 23 (7.35%) Project Management
13 22 (7.03%) Technology Strategy
14 21 (6.71%) CI/CD
14 21 (6.71%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 31 (9.90%) Python
2 9 (2.88%) SQL
3 8 (2.56%) C++
4 7 (2.24%) Java
5 4 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.96%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.64%) C
8 1 (0.32%) Bash
8 1 (0.32%) Go
8 1 (0.32%) Perl
8 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.32%) ProC
Qualifications
1 69 (22.04%) Degree
2 25 (7.99%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (7.03%) CCNP
4 15 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.19%) CISSP
5 10 (3.19%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.88%) CCIE
7 8 (2.56%) CCNA
7 8 (2.56%) CCSE
7 8 (2.56%) CISM
8 7 (2.24%) A+ Certification
9 6 (1.92%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.92%) BICSI Certification
9 6 (1.92%) SC Cleared
10 5 (1.60%) APMG
11 4 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.28%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.28%) PMP
11 4 (1.28%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.07%) GRC
3 17 (5.43%) PCI DSS
4 15 (4.79%) Accessibility
5 14 (4.47%) SLA
6 11 (3.51%) QA
7 5 (1.60%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.60%) GDPR
7 5 (1.60%) NIST
8 3 (0.96%) IFRS
8 3 (0.96%) NCSC
8 3 (0.96%) NEBOSH
8 3 (0.96%) PMO
9 2 (0.64%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.32%) MiFID
10 1 (0.32%) RMADS
10 1 (0.32%) SOC 1
10 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (4.79%) Active Directory
1 15 (4.79%) Docker
2 8 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.92%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.28%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (2.56%) Terraform
4 7 (2.24%) Ansible
5 5 (1.60%) Autotask
6 3 (0.96%) WSUS
7 2 (0.64%) Grafana
7 2 (0.64%) Nagios
7 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.32%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.90%) Cisco
3 16 (5.11%) VMware
4 14 (4.47%) Fortinet
5 12 (3.83%) CheckPoint
6 11 (3.51%) Palo Alto
6 11 (3.51%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.19%) Veritas
8 9 (2.88%) Google
8 9 (2.88%) HubSpot
8 9 (2.88%) Zscaler
9 8 (2.56%) Arista
9 8 (2.56%) F5
10 7 (2.24%) Citrix
10 7 (2.24%) HP
10 7 (2.24%) Juniper
11 6 (1.92%) DocuSign
12 5 (1.60%) Kaseya
12 5 (1.60%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.28%) Remedy