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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 152 185
Rank change year-on-year -1 +33 +28
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 287 331 352
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.86% 2.21% 1.65%
As % of the General category 2.86% 2.98% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 186 117 265
10th Percentile £31,188 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £98,205 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £106,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% -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 10,019 11,112 14,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 64.76% 74.06% 65.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,179 5,841 10,920
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,881 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,002 £56,495 £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 15 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 15 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 -8 35 £45,000 -10.00% 11
West London -17 11 £53,750 -23.21% 3
South London +23 5 £45,000 - 3
North London +1 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 (1.74%) Apache Pulsar
1 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.35%) Apache
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.35%) CMS
3 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (6.62%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.74%) Maya
4 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.05%) Sketch
5 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) SAP IBP
1 5 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.70%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (16.72%) Azure
2 46 (16.03%) GCP
3 34 (11.85%) AWS
4 11 (3.83%) GitHub
4 11 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (3.83%) OpenShift
4 11 (3.83%) SaaS
5 9 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (2.09%) IaaS
7 6 (2.09%) PaaS
8 5 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.74%) Datadog
9 4 (1.39%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (1.39%) Cloud Run
9 4 (1.39%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (1.05%) Anthos
10 3 (1.05%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.05%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.45%) Broadband
2 22 (7.67%) Firewall
3 17 (5.92%) LAN
4 16 (5.57%) WAN
5 14 (4.88%) VoIP
6 12 (4.18%) SD-WAN
7 11 (3.83%) VPN
8 10 (3.48%) MPLS
9 9 (3.14%) 4G
9 9 (3.14%) BGP
9 9 (3.14%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (3.14%) Ethernet VPN
9 9 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.79%) Ethernet
10 8 (2.79%) IOS XR
10 8 (2.79%) Wireless
10 8 (2.79%) Wireshark
11 6 (2.09%) IP Telephony
11 6 (2.09%) Multicast
12 5 (1.74%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.88%) Relational Database
2 12 (4.18%) RDBMS
3 11 (3.83%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.44%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.74%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.05%) Redis
8 2 (0.70%) KNIME
8 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.70%) Power BI
8 2 (0.70%) QlikView
8 2 (0.70%) Tableau
9 1 (0.35%) Big Data
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.18%) Git
2 11 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.74%) GitLab
4 4 (1.39%) Postman
5 3 (1.05%) JIRA
6 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
General
1 110 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 89 (31.01%) Finance
3 58 (20.21%) Marketing
4 51 (17.77%) Public Sector
5 48 (16.72%) Manufacturing
6 45 (15.68%) Electronics
7 26 (9.06%) Billing
8 25 (8.71%) Law
9 23 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
10 22 (7.67%) Legal
11 18 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (5.92%) Banking
13 15 (5.23%) Games
14 13 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (3.48%) German Language
16 8 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (2.09%) Retail
19 5 (1.74%) Automotive
20 4 (1.39%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 70 (24.39%) Senior
2 28 (9.76%) Analyst
3 27 (9.41%) Lead
4 24 (8.36%) IT Support
5 22 (7.67%) Architect
5 22 (7.67%) Network Engineer
5 22 (7.67%) Support Analyst
6 20 (6.97%) Account Manager
7 19 (6.62%) IT Analyst
7 19 (6.62%) IT Support Analyst
8 18 (6.27%) Telecoms Manager
9 16 (5.57%) Support Specialist
10 15 (5.23%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.88%) Consultant
11 14 (4.88%) Developer
11 14 (4.88%) Security Engineer
11 14 (4.88%) Telecoms Account Manager
12 13 (4.53%) Senior Security Engineer
13 12 (4.18%) Android Engineer
13 12 (4.18%) IT Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.45%) REST
2 24 (8.36%) RESTful
3 23 (8.01%) Kafka
4 19 (6.62%) Spring
5 18 (6.27%) Spring Boot
6 17 (5.92%) gRPC
7 16 (5.57%) WebSockets
8 11 (3.83%) OAuth
9 9 (3.14%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.14%) Bootstrap
9 9 (3.14%) Spring Cloud
10 8 (2.79%) Jinja
10 8 (2.79%) NETCONF
10 8 (2.79%) OAuth2
10 8 (2.79%) YANG
11 6 (2.09%) JWT
11 6 (2.09%) Middleware
11 6 (2.09%) Spring Integration
11 6 (2.09%) Spring MVC
12 5 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.36%) Social Media
2 22 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.92%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.92%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.18%) AI Agents
4 12 (4.18%) Video Conferencing
5 11 (3.83%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.14%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.79%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.74%) IVR
9 5 (1.74%) PMI
9 5 (1.74%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.05%) IoT
10 3 (1.05%) Life Science
10 3 (1.05%) TM Forum
10 3 (1.05%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.50%) Windows
2 21 (7.32%) Android
3 12 (4.18%) Linux
4 7 (2.44%) Unix
5 5 (1.74%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (19.51%) AI
2 54 (18.82%) Agile
3 46 (16.03%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (15.68%) Business Development
4 45 (15.68%) Digital Marketing
5 44 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (15.33%) Programme Management
6 40 (13.94%) Containerisation
7 39 (13.59%) CRM
8 37 (12.89%) DevOps
8 37 (12.89%) Mentoring
8 37 (12.89%) Microservices
9 33 (11.50%) CI/CD
9 33 (11.50%) Computer Science
10 31 (10.80%) User Experience
11 28 (9.76%) Machine Learning
12 27 (9.41%) ITIL
13 23 (8.01%) B2B
13 23 (8.01%) Data Management
13 23 (8.01%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (17.42%) Python
2 26 (9.06%) Java
2 26 (9.06%) SQL
3 22 (7.67%) C++
4 18 (6.27%) Go
5 16 (5.57%) Bash
5 16 (5.57%) PowerShell
6 14 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.18%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.48%) C#
9 7 (2.44%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.05%) PHP
10 3 (1.05%) R
11 2 (0.70%) C
12 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 72 (25.09%) Degree
2 31 (10.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.27%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.18%) A+ Certification
5 12 (4.18%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.79%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.44%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.39%) CCIE
8 4 (1.39%) CCNP
8 4 (1.39%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.05%) CISSP
9 3 (1.05%) PMP
10 2 (0.70%) CCSA
10 2 (0.70%) CCSE
11 1 (0.35%) GCIH
11 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.35%) LPIC
11 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.53%) QA
2 11 (3.83%) GDPR
3 6 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.74%) PMO
5 4 (1.39%) GRC
5 4 (1.39%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.05%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.70%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (11.50%) Docker
2 13 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.57%) Terraform
3 12 (4.18%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.79%) Ansible
4 8 (2.79%) Grafana
4 8 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.35%) Nmap
5 1 (0.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 48 (16.72%) SAP
2 37 (12.89%) Microsoft
3 34 (11.85%) Cisco
4 17 (5.92%) Salesforce
5 16 (5.57%) Google
6 9 (3.14%) CheckPoint
7 8 (2.79%) Meraki
7 8 (2.79%) Palantir
8 7 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.44%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.74%) Ariba
9 5 (1.74%) Avaya
9 5 (1.74%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.74%) Genesys
9 5 (1.74%) Mavenir
9 5 (1.74%) Nokia
9 5 (1.74%) Splunk
10 3 (1.05%) DocuSign
10 3 (1.05%) F5
11 2 (0.70%) Zscaler