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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 137 250
Rank change year-on-year -30 +113 -100
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 320 311 238
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.34% 2.56% 1.22%
As % of the General category 2.49% 3.39% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 188 171 171
10th Percentile £32,675 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.78% -7.86%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 12,831 9,182 13,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 53.72% 75.62% 69.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,981 5,538 8,696
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,592
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £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 15 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 15 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% 36
West London -9 17 £55,000 - 14
South London +10 8 £70,000 -12.50% 5
East London -7 4 £29,000 -6.45% 10
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 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.94%) Apache
3 3 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) JBoss
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (7.81%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (4.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.94%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.94%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (12.81%) AWS
2 37 (11.56%) Azure
3 25 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (6.25%) SaaS
5 15 (4.69%) Amazon S3
6 14 (4.38%) GCP
7 13 (4.06%) Serverless
8 11 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.13%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.81%) OneDrive
11 7 (2.19%) Amazon Bedrock
11 7 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.19%) Azure AI
11 7 (2.19%) LangSmith
12 5 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.56%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.25%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.25%) WeChat
14 3 (0.94%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.31%) Firewall
2 32 (10.00%) LAN
3 30 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 30 (9.38%) WAN
4 26 (8.13%) Network Security
5 17 (5.31%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (5.00%) Multicast
7 14 (4.38%) SD-WAN
8 13 (4.06%) DNS
9 12 (3.75%) DHCP
9 12 (3.75%) Wireless
10 10 (3.13%) VoIP
11 9 (2.81%) BGP
11 9 (2.81%) Structured Cabling
12 8 (2.50%) 3GPP
12 8 (2.50%) Broadband
12 8 (2.50%) OSPF
13 7 (2.19%) GSM
13 7 (2.19%) UMTS
13 7 (2.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (2.81%) Big Data
2 8 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (2.50%) Apache Iceberg
2 8 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.88%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.56%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.94%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (0.94%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.94%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.94%) Metadata
5 3 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.63%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.63%) Redshift Spectrum
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 12 (3.75%) Git
2 8 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.19%) GCC
3 7 (2.19%) GDB
4 4 (1.25%) JIRA
5 1 (0.31%) CMake
5 1 (0.31%) Maven
5 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
General
1 128 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 79 (24.69%) Finance
3 47 (14.69%) Law
4 37 (11.56%) Legal
5 31 (9.69%) Banking
5 31 (9.69%) Retail
6 26 (8.13%) Marketing
7 23 (7.19%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (6.56%) Public Sector
9 20 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (5.94%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (5.00%) Billing
12 10 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (2.50%) Military
15 5 (1.56%) Advertising
16 4 (1.25%) Arabic Language
16 4 (1.25%) French Language
16 4 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
16 4 (1.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (9.69%) Senior
2 27 (8.44%) Lead
3 24 (7.50%) Account Manager
4 18 (5.63%) Network Engineer
5 17 (5.31%) Consultant
6 15 (4.69%) Account Director
6 15 (4.69%) Project Manager
7 14 (4.38%) Analyst
7 14 (4.38%) Architect
8 13 (4.06%) Development Manager
9 12 (3.75%) Business Development Manager
9 12 (3.75%) Business Manager
9 12 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.44%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.13%) Solutions Consultant
12 9 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.81%) Operations Engineer
12 9 (2.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.50%) Installations Engineer
13 8 (2.50%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.19%) FastAPI
1 7 (2.19%) LangChain
1 7 (2.19%) LangGraph
1 7 (2.19%) STL
2 5 (1.56%) AngularJS
2 5 (1.56%) Bootstrap
2 5 (1.56%) REST
2 5 (1.56%) Spring
2 5 (1.56%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.94%) Google Maps API
3 3 (0.94%) Kafka
3 3 (0.94%) React
4 2 (0.63%) gRPC
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.31%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.31%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.31%) PySpark
5 1 (0.31%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.25%) Data Centre
2 32 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (4.69%) MPEG
5 11 (3.44%) Driving Licence
5 11 (3.44%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (3.13%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.19%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.88%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.56%) Blog
10 5 (1.56%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.56%) Social Media
11 4 (1.25%) CCTV
11 4 (1.25%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.25%) IoT
11 4 (1.25%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.25%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.81%) Windows
2 12 (3.75%) Linux
3 10 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (15.94%) AI
3 42 (13.13%) Cybersecurity
4 38 (11.88%) Analytics
4 38 (11.88%) Presales
5 37 (11.56%) Project Delivery
6 36 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (10.31%) Business Development
8 32 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
9 30 (9.38%) Agile
9 30 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (9.06%) Customer Experience
11 28 (8.75%) Roadmaps
12 26 (8.13%) CRM
13 25 (7.81%) IT Strategy
14 24 (7.50%) ITIL
15 23 (7.19%) Project Management
16 22 (6.88%) CI/CD
16 22 (6.88%) Computer Science
16 22 (6.88%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.00%) Python
2 10 (3.13%) SQL
3 8 (2.50%) C++
3 8 (2.50%) Java
4 5 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.94%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.63%) C
7 1 (0.31%) Bash
7 1 (0.31%) Go
7 1 (0.31%) Perl
7 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.31%) ProC
Qualifications
1 70 (21.88%) Degree
2 27 (8.44%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (7.19%) CCNP
4 16 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.44%) CCIE
5 11 (3.44%) CISSP
6 10 (3.13%) Security Cleared
7 9 (2.81%) CCSE
7 9 (2.81%) CISM
8 8 (2.50%) CCNA
9 7 (2.19%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.88%) APMG
10 6 (1.88%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.88%) SC Cleared
11 5 (1.56%) BICSI Certification
12 4 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.25%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.25%) PMP
12 4 (1.25%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (6.56%) GRC
3 19 (5.94%) PCI DSS
4 15 (4.69%) Accessibility
5 13 (4.06%) SLA
6 11 (3.44%) QA
7 6 (1.88%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.56%) GDPR
8 5 (1.56%) NIST
9 3 (0.94%) IFRS
9 3 (0.94%) NCSC
9 3 (0.94%) NEBOSH
9 3 (0.94%) PMO
10 2 (0.63%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.31%) MiFID
11 1 (0.31%) RMADS
11 1 (0.31%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (4.69%) Active Directory
1 15 (4.69%) Docker
2 8 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.88%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.25%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.81%) Terraform
3 7 (2.19%) Ansible
4 5 (1.56%) Autotask
5 3 (0.94%) WSUS
6 2 (0.63%) Grafana
6 2 (0.63%) Nagios
6 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.00%) Cisco
3 16 (5.00%) VMware
4 15 (4.69%) Fortinet
5 13 (4.06%) CheckPoint
6 12 (3.75%) Palo Alto
7 11 (3.44%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.13%) Veritas
9 9 (2.81%) Arista
9 9 (2.81%) F5
9 9 (2.81%) Google
9 9 (2.81%) HubSpot
9 9 (2.81%) Zscaler
10 7 (2.19%) Citrix
10 7 (2.19%) HP
10 7 (2.19%) Juniper
11 6 (1.88%) DocuSign
12 5 (1.56%) Kaseya
12 5 (1.56%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.25%) Remedy