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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 168 230
Rank change year-on-year +16 +62 -33
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 312 268 313
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.53% 2.12% 1.34%
As % of the General category 2.71% 2.77% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 190 129 240
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,700 £28,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £110,000 £92,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% -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 11,523 9,666 15,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 56.56% 76.34% 67.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7,061 5,517 11,381
10th Percentile £39,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -4.92%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £125,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.48% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -29 31 £45,000 -10.00% 48
West London -12 19 £29,350 -58.07% 15
East London -10 3 £20,000 -35.48% 7
South London - 1 - - 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 3 (0.96%) Apache
1 3 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (0.96%) Apache Pulsar
1 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.64%) Confluence
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.64%) Sketch
5 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.92%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.64%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 28 (8.97%) AWS
1 28 (8.97%) GCP
2 25 (8.01%) Azure
3 16 (5.13%) SaaS
4 15 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (4.49%) OpenShift
6 7 (2.24%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.60%) GitHub
7 5 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (1.28%) PaaS
9 3 (0.96%) Anthos
9 3 (0.96%) Apigee
9 3 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.96%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (0.96%) Cloud Run
9 3 (0.96%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (0.96%) OCI
10 2 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.37%) Broadband
2 17 (5.45%) WAN
3 16 (5.13%) LAN
4 14 (4.49%) Firewall
5 13 (4.17%) Multicast
6 12 (3.85%) 4G
7 11 (3.53%) Network Security
7 11 (3.53%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.21%) BGP
8 10 (3.21%) MPLS
9 9 (2.88%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (2.88%) Ethernet VPN
9 9 (2.88%) SD-WAN
10 8 (2.56%) IOS XR
10 8 (2.56%) VoIP
11 6 (1.92%) VPN
11 6 (1.92%) Wireless
12 5 (1.60%) 5G
12 5 (1.60%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.81%) Relational Database
2 13 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 7 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (2.24%) Apache Iceberg
4 6 (1.92%) Big Data
5 4 (1.28%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.96%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.64%) Apache Hudi
7 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.64%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.64%) Metadata
7 2 (0.64%) Redshift Spectrum
8 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.32%) Redis
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (4.49%) Git
2 6 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.60%) JIRA
4 3 (0.96%) Postman
5 1 (0.32%) GitLab
General
1 119 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 70 (22.44%) Finance
3 33 (10.58%) Law
4 32 (10.26%) Billing
5 31 (9.94%) Legal
6 28 (8.97%) Marketing
7 22 (7.05%) Public Sector
8 18 (5.77%) Retail
9 17 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (5.45%) Banking
9 17 (5.45%) Electronics
9 17 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (4.49%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.88%) Games
13 5 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.28%) Advertising
15 3 (0.96%) Esports
15 3 (0.96%) German Language
Job Titles
1 50 (16.03%) Senior
2 35 (11.22%) Lead
3 28 (8.97%) Account Manager
4 23 (7.37%) Telecoms Manager
5 21 (6.73%) Architect
6 18 (5.77%) Telecoms Account Manager
7 16 (5.13%) IT Support
8 15 (4.81%) Analyst
8 15 (4.81%) Developer
9 13 (4.17%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.17%) Network Engineer
9 13 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 12 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
10 12 (3.85%) Support Specialist
11 11 (3.53%) IT Analyst
11 11 (3.53%) IT Support Analyst
11 11 (3.53%) IT Support Specialist
11 11 (3.53%) Support Analyst
12 10 (3.21%) Security Engineer
12 10 (3.21%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.01%) REST
2 23 (7.37%) Spring
3 22 (7.05%) Spring Boot
4 18 (5.77%) Kafka
5 14 (4.49%) RESTful
6 13 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 13 (4.17%) Bootstrap
7 12 (3.85%) gRPC
7 12 (3.85%) WebSockets
8 9 (2.88%) Spring Cloud
9 8 (2.56%) Jinja
9 8 (2.56%) NETCONF
9 8 (2.56%) YANG
10 7 (2.24%) OAuth
11 6 (1.92%) Spring Integration
11 6 (1.92%) Spring MVC
12 4 (1.28%) JWT
12 4 (1.28%) OAuth2
13 3 (0.96%) Android NDK
13 3 (0.96%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.09%) Social Media
3 16 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.53%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (3.21%) AI Agents
6 10 (3.21%) MPEG
6 10 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.92%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.60%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.28%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.28%) TM Forum
10 4 (1.28%) Virtual Reality
11 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.96%) Life Science
12 2 (0.64%) CCTV
12 2 (0.64%) CMDB
12 2 (0.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.41%) Windows
2 16 (5.13%) Android
3 6 (1.92%) Linux
4 4 (1.28%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.96%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.64%) VMS
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Unix
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (15.71%) Agile
2 45 (14.42%) AI
3 37 (11.86%) Business Development
4 35 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (10.58%) Microservices
6 32 (10.26%) Mentoring
7 31 (9.94%) Containerisation
7 31 (9.94%) CRM
8 27 (8.65%) Analytics
8 27 (8.65%) Regulatory Compliance
9 26 (8.33%) Information Security
10 25 (8.01%) Computer Science
10 25 (8.01%) Customer Experience
10 25 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (8.01%) DevOps
10 25 (8.01%) Roadmaps
11 24 (7.69%) CI/CD
11 24 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (7.69%) Machine Learning
12 23 (7.37%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 28 (8.97%) Python
2 26 (8.33%) Java
3 18 (5.77%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.49%) C++
5 13 (4.17%) SQL
6 12 (3.85%) Go
7 6 (1.92%) Bash
8 5 (1.60%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.60%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.28%) C#
9 4 (1.28%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.96%) PHP
11 1 (0.32%) C
11 1 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 64 (20.51%) Degree
2 23 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (3.53%) A+ Certification
4 11 (3.53%) CCIE
5 8 (2.56%) CCNP
5 8 (2.56%) CCSE
5 8 (2.56%) CISSP
6 5 (1.60%) CISM
6 5 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.60%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.60%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.28%) APMG
7 4 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.28%) CCSA
7 4 (1.28%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.96%) CISA
8 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.96%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (7.05%) GRC
2 22 (7.05%) PCI DSS
3 11 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.56%) QA
5 6 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.92%) SLA
6 4 (1.28%) GDPR
6 4 (1.28%) PMO
7 3 (0.96%) NIST
8 2 (0.64%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS
9 1 (0.32%) NCSC
9 1 (0.32%) RMADS
9 1 (0.32%) SOC 1
9 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (6.73%) Docker
2 4 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.85%) Terraform
3 6 (1.92%) Ansible
4 5 (1.60%) Autotask
4 5 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.64%) Grafana
6 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.05%) Cisco
3 16 (5.13%) SAP
4 9 (2.88%) CheckPoint
4 9 (2.88%) Google
5 7 (2.24%) Fortinet
5 7 (2.24%) Palo Alto
6 6 (1.92%) F5
7 5 (1.60%) Kaseya
8 4 (1.28%) Arista
8 4 (1.28%) DocuSign
8 4 (1.28%) Remedy
8 4 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.96%) BT
9 3 (0.96%) Ericsson
9 3 (0.96%) Mavenir
9 3 (0.96%) Nokia
10 2 (0.64%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.64%) Palantir
10 2 (0.64%) ServiceNow