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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 157 232
Rank change year-on-year -16 +75 -70
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 297 290 284
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.32% 2.33% 1.28%
As % of the General category 2.44% 3.08% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 172 154 211
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% -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 12,148 9,407 15,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 54.06% 75.70% 68.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,793 5,624 10,366
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £50,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £121,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,818
% change year-on-year - +2.20% -10.30%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -23 30 £45,000 -10.00% 15
West London +1 15 £55,000 -21.43% 14
South London +16 5 £70,000 -12.50%
East London -3 3 £20,000 -35.48% 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 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.01%) Apache
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.69%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (11.11%) AWS
2 26 (8.75%) Azure
3 21 (7.07%) SaaS
4 19 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.04%) Amazon S3
6 10 (3.37%) GCP
7 9 (3.03%) Serverless
8 8 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.69%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.68%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.68%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.35%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.35%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.35%) LangSmith
10 4 (1.35%) WeChat
11 3 (1.01%) AWS IoT
11 3 (1.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.43%) Firewall
1 28 (9.43%) LAN
2 26 (8.75%) WAN
3 25 (8.42%) TCP/IP
4 20 (6.73%) Network Security
5 16 (5.39%) Multicast
6 14 (4.71%) SD-WAN
7 11 (3.70%) Wireless
8 10 (3.37%) Broadband
8 10 (3.37%) VoIP
8 10 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (3.03%) BGP
10 8 (2.69%) DNS
10 8 (2.69%) OSPF
10 8 (2.69%) VPN
11 7 (2.36%) 5G
11 7 (2.36%) DHCP
11 7 (2.36%) Software-Defined Networking
11 7 (2.36%) WLAN
12 6 (2.02%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.03%) Relational Database
2 8 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (2.69%) Apache Iceberg
2 8 (2.69%) Big Data
2 8 (2.69%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Hudi
3 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
3 3 (1.01%) Metadata
3 3 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.01%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.67%) Redshift Spectrum
5 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.34%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.34%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (2.69%) Git
2 4 (1.35%) GCC
2 4 (1.35%) GDB
2 4 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.67%) JIRA
4 1 (0.34%) CMake
4 1 (0.34%) Valgrind
General
1 119 (40.07%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.90%) Finance
3 43 (14.48%) Law
4 37 (12.46%) Legal
5 27 (9.09%) Retail
6 25 (8.42%) Banking
6 25 (8.42%) Marketing
7 23 (7.74%) Billing
8 22 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (5.72%) Public Sector
10 16 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.36%) Advertising
11 7 (2.36%) Military
12 6 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.35%) Games
14 4 (1.35%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (1.35%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.01%) German Language
Job Titles
1 31 (10.44%) Account Manager
2 29 (9.76%) Lead
3 28 (9.43%) Senior
4 15 (5.05%) Account Director
4 15 (5.05%) Architect
5 13 (4.38%) Analyst
5 13 (4.38%) Consultant
5 13 (4.38%) Network Engineer
5 13 (4.38%) Telecoms Manager
6 11 (3.70%) Development Manager
7 10 (3.37%) Administrator
7 10 (3.37%) Business Development Manager
7 10 (3.37%) Business Manager
7 10 (3.37%) Telecoms Account Manager
8 9 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (3.03%) Data Engineer
8 9 (3.03%) Developer
8 9 (3.03%) Senior Developer
9 8 (2.69%) Sales Manager
9 8 (2.69%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.03%) REST
2 8 (2.69%) AngularJS
2 8 (2.69%) Bootstrap
2 8 (2.69%) Spring
2 8 (2.69%) Spring Boot
3 4 (1.35%) FastAPI
3 4 (1.35%) LangChain
3 4 (1.35%) LangGraph
3 4 (1.35%) STL
4 3 (1.01%) Kafka
5 2 (0.67%) gRPC
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.34%) JSON
6 1 (0.34%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.34%) PySpark
6 1 (0.34%) Streamlit
6 1 (0.34%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.76%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.07%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.72%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.05%) MPEG
5 11 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (3.03%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.69%) Social Media
8 7 (2.36%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.02%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.68%) Life Science
10 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.35%) IoT
11 4 (1.35%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.35%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.35%) Virtual Reality
12 3 (1.01%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.72%) Windows
2 8 (2.69%) Linux
3 5 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (12.46%) AI
4 34 (11.45%) Analytics
4 34 (11.45%) Business Development
5 32 (10.77%) Regulatory Compliance
6 31 (10.44%) Presales
7 30 (10.10%) Agile
8 28 (9.43%) CRM
9 24 (8.08%) Customer Experience
9 24 (8.08%) IT Strategy
10 23 (7.74%) Information Security
10 23 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (7.41%) Project Delivery
12 21 (7.07%) B2B
12 21 (7.07%) Roadmaps
12 21 (7.07%) Technology Strategy
13 19 (6.40%) Line Management
13 19 (6.40%) Mentoring
14 18 (6.06%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.42%) Python
2 10 (3.37%) Java
3 8 (2.69%) JavaScript
3 8 (2.69%) SQL
4 5 (1.68%) C++
5 1 (0.34%) Bash
5 1 (0.34%) C
5 1 (0.34%) Go
5 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (20.20%) Degree
2 24 (8.08%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (6.40%) CCNP
4 12 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.70%) CCIE
6 10 (3.37%) CISSP
7 8 (2.69%) CCSE
7 8 (2.69%) CISM
8 7 (2.36%) A+ Certification
8 7 (2.36%) CCNA
9 5 (1.68%) APMG
9 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.68%) Security Cleared
10 4 (1.35%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.35%) RHCSA
10 4 (1.35%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.01%) ACCA
11 3 (1.01%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (8.42%) GRC
3 23 (7.74%) PCI DSS
4 15 (5.05%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.36%) QA
5 7 (2.36%) SLA
6 6 (2.02%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.68%) GDPR
7 5 (1.68%) NIST
8 3 (1.01%) IFRS
8 3 (1.01%) NCSC
9 2 (0.67%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.67%) NEBOSH
9 2 (0.67%) PMO
9 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.34%) MiFID
10 1 (0.34%) RMADS
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 1
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 9 (3.03%) Docker
2 7 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.35%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.35%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.69%) Terraform
3 6 (2.02%) Ansible
4 5 (1.68%) Autotask
4 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.67%) Grafana
5 2 (0.67%) Nagios
5 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.67%) WSUS
6 1 (0.34%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.73%) Cisco
3 13 (4.38%) Fortinet
4 12 (4.04%) CheckPoint
5 11 (3.70%) Palo Alto
5 11 (3.70%) VMware
6 9 (3.03%) F5
7 8 (2.69%) DocuSign
7 8 (2.69%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.36%) Citrix
8 7 (2.36%) Veritas
9 6 (2.02%) Arista
9 6 (2.02%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.68%) Kaseya
10 5 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.68%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.35%) Freshdesk
11 4 (1.35%) Remedy
12 3 (1.01%) Databricks
12 3 (1.01%) Sophos