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 27 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 176 161
Rank change year-on-year +30 -15 +48
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 301 337 366
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.30% 1.92% 1.99%
As % of the General category 3.16% 2.73% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 201 127 270
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,400 £39,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £55,440
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £74,516 £83,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £85,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%

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 common skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,539 12,343 12,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 72.79% 70.17% 67.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,755 7,106 9,805
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,762 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +15 27 £50,000 - 30
West London -19 6 £53,750 -18.87% 10
South London +23 5 £45,000 - 3
North London +4 1 £35,000 -6.67% 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 10 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.33%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (1.00%) Confluence
5 2 (0.66%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 20 (6.64%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (4.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.66%) Maya
4 7 (2.33%) Sketch
5 6 (1.99%) Adobe XD
6 5 (1.66%) MS Visio
7 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.33%) InDesign
8 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.66%) SAP IBP
1 8 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 62 (20.60%) Azure
2 50 (16.61%) GCP
3 46 (15.28%) AWS
4 18 (5.98%) SaaS
5 11 (3.65%) PaaS
6 10 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.99%) Figma
7 9 (2.99%) GitHub
7 9 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (2.66%) Datadog
9 7 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (2.33%) IaaS
10 6 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.99%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.33%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.33%) Serverless
13 3 (1.00%) Cloudflare
13 3 (1.00%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.66%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.64%) Firewall
2 16 (5.32%) LAN
2 16 (5.32%) WAN
3 12 (3.99%) SD-WAN
3 12 (3.99%) VoIP
4 11 (3.65%) Wireless
4 11 (3.65%) Wireshark
5 10 (3.32%) Broadband
6 9 (2.99%) IP Telephony
6 9 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (2.66%) Network Security
8 7 (2.33%) Internet
9 6 (1.99%) Ethernet
9 6 (1.99%) Multicast
9 6 (1.99%) VPN
10 5 (1.66%) DNS
10 5 (1.66%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.33%) BGP
11 4 (1.33%) PSTN
11 4 (1.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.98%) NoSQL
2 14 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.99%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.32%) RDBMS
5 8 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.66%) SAP BW
6 4 (1.33%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.00%) Redis
7 3 (1.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.66%) KNIME
8 2 (0.66%) Metadata
8 2 (0.66%) Power BI
8 2 (0.66%) QlikView
8 2 (0.66%) Tableau
9 1 (0.33%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.98%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.32%) Git
3 5 (1.66%) GitLab
3 5 (1.66%) JIRA
4 3 (1.00%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.00%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.33%) CMake
5 1 (0.33%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.33%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.33%) Postman
5 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
General
1 136 (45.18%) Social Skills
2 126 (41.86%) Finance
3 95 (31.56%) Marketing
4 87 (28.90%) Public Sector
5 81 (26.91%) Manufacturing
6 75 (24.92%) Electronics
7 52 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (14.62%) Law
9 24 (7.97%) Banking
9 24 (7.97%) Legal
10 15 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (3.65%) Games
12 11 (3.65%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (3.32%) German Language
14 9 (2.99%) Automotive
14 9 (2.99%) Billing
14 9 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.66%) Retail
16 4 (1.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 76 (25.25%) Senior
2 37 (12.29%) IT Support
3 31 (10.30%) Analyst
4 24 (7.97%) Support Analyst
5 23 (7.64%) IT Manager
6 20 (6.64%) IT Analyst
6 20 (6.64%) IT Support Analyst
7 19 (6.31%) Consultant
7 19 (6.31%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.98%) Senior Manager
9 17 (5.65%) IT Operations Manager
9 17 (5.65%) Network Engineer
9 17 (5.65%) Operations Manager
10 16 (5.32%) IT Support Manager
10 16 (5.32%) Support Manager
11 15 (4.98%) Lead
11 15 (4.98%) Support Specialist
12 13 (4.32%) Security Engineer
13 12 (3.99%) Developer
13 12 (3.99%) IT Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.31%) REST
2 20 (6.64%) RESTful
3 16 (5.32%) Kafka
4 12 (3.99%) FastAPI
5 11 (3.65%) Flask
5 11 (3.65%) gRPC
6 10 (3.32%) Node.js
6 10 (3.32%) WebSockets
7 9 (2.99%) Middleware
8 8 (2.66%) OAuth
9 7 (2.33%) OAuth2
10 5 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.33%) NumPy
11 4 (1.33%) Pandas
11 4 (1.33%) SOAP
11 4 (1.33%) Web Services
12 3 (1.00%) JWT
12 3 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
12 3 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
13 2 (0.66%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.97%) Data Centre
1 24 (7.97%) Onboarding
2 18 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.98%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.65%) Mobile App
5 13 (4.32%) Video Conferencing
6 12 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.65%) AI Agents
7 11 (3.65%) Social Media
8 10 (3.32%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.66%) PMI
9 8 (2.66%) Reinsurance
9 8 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.99%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.66%) IVR
11 5 (1.66%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (1.00%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.00%) VUI
13 3 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (13.62%) Windows
2 20 (6.64%) Linux
3 17 (5.65%) Android
4 7 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
6 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (26.25%) Programme Management
2 78 (25.91%) Business Intelligence
3 75 (24.92%) Digital Marketing
4 71 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (21.26%) AI
6 46 (15.28%) Project Management
7 43 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 43 (14.29%) ITIL
8 41 (13.62%) Agile
9 39 (12.96%) Project Delivery
10 37 (12.29%) Business Development
11 36 (11.96%) Analytics
12 35 (11.63%) CI/CD
12 35 (11.63%) CRM
12 35 (11.63%) High Availability
12 35 (11.63%) Machine Learning
13 33 (10.96%) Computer Science
13 33 (10.96%) DevOps
14 31 (10.30%) Containerisation
14 31 (10.30%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 67 (22.26%) Python
2 29 (9.63%) SQL
3 18 (5.98%) Bash
4 17 (5.65%) C++
5 16 (5.32%) PowerShell
6 15 (4.98%) Go
7 12 (3.99%) Java
7 12 (3.99%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.99%) C#
9 4 (1.33%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.33%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.00%) R
11 2 (0.66%) C
12 1 (0.33%) Bicep
12 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 84 (27.91%) Degree
2 28 (9.30%) PMI Certification
3 27 (8.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (8.64%) Security Cleared
5 24 (7.97%) SC Cleared
6 20 (6.64%) CISSP
6 20 (6.64%) PMP
7 16 (5.32%) DV Cleared
8 14 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (3.99%) A+ Certification
10 9 (2.99%) CCNP
11 8 (2.66%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.99%) CCIE
13 3 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.00%) CCNA
13 3 (1.00%) CCSP
13 3 (1.00%) GCIH
13 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.66%) CCSA
14 2 (0.66%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.29%) QA
2 32 (10.63%) GDPR
3 21 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 17 (5.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (3.99%) GAAP
6 10 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.66%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.33%) NIST
9 5 (1.66%) EU AI Act
10 3 (1.00%) PMO
10 3 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (9.97%) Docker
2 16 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (11.30%) Kubernetes
2 29 (9.63%) Terraform
3 17 (5.65%) Ansible
4 10 (3.32%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.66%) Grafana
6 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.00%) Nmap
8 2 (0.66%) WSUS
9 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 81 (26.91%) SAP
2 45 (14.95%) Microsoft
3 33 (10.96%) Cisco
4 25 (8.31%) Google
5 18 (5.98%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.65%) CheckPoint
7 10 (3.32%) Meraki
7 10 (3.32%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.66%) Ariba
8 8 (2.66%) Palantir
8 8 (2.66%) SolarWinds
9 7 (2.33%) Adobe
10 6 (1.99%) Avaya
11 5 (1.66%) Splunk
12 4 (1.33%) Ericsson
12 4 (1.33%) Genesys
12 4 (1.33%) Juniper
12 4 (1.33%) Mavenir
12 4 (1.33%) Nokia
12 4 (1.33%) ServiceNow