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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 140 225
Rank change year-on-year -53 +85 -71
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 296 305 264
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 2.55% 1.37%
As % of the General category 2.23% 3.35% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 180 173 150
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £31,950
25th Percentile £44,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £89,375 £85,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £97,525
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £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 general skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 13,297 9,097 13,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 52.50% 76.13% 69.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,239 5,509 7,888
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £126,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -1 35 £45,000 -10.00% 62
West London -9 12 £55,000 - 27
South London +6 8 £70,000 -9.68% 3
East London - 2 £49,000 - 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 10 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.01%) Apache
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.01%) Confluence
4 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.01%) AutoCAD
4 3 (1.01%) Revit
5 2 (0.68%) InDesign
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.84%) Azure
2 35 (11.82%) AWS
3 26 (8.78%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (5.07%) SaaS
5 13 (4.39%) GCP
5 13 (4.39%) Serverless
6 10 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (3.38%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.04%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.04%) OneDrive
8 7 (2.36%) Amazon Bedrock
8 7 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.36%) Azure AI
8 7 (2.36%) LangSmith
9 4 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.35%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.35%) WeChat
10 3 (1.01%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.80%) Firewall
1 29 (9.80%) LAN
2 26 (8.78%) WAN
3 25 (8.45%) TCP/IP
4 22 (7.43%) Network Security
5 17 (5.74%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (4.73%) DNS
7 12 (4.05%) 5G
7 12 (4.05%) DHCP
8 11 (3.72%) SD-WAN
9 10 (3.38%) Internet
9 10 (3.38%) Multicast
9 10 (3.38%) Wireless
10 9 (3.04%) Broadband
10 9 (3.04%) Structured Cabling
10 9 (3.04%) VoIP
11 8 (2.70%) BGP
11 8 (2.70%) OSPF
11 8 (2.70%) Radio Access Network
11 8 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.36%) Big Data
3 5 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
4 3 (1.01%) Metadata
5 2 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.68%) Power BI
5 2 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.34%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.34%) Redis
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.05%) Git
2 9 (3.04%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.36%) GCC
3 7 (2.36%) GDB
4 4 (1.35%) JIRA
5 1 (0.34%) CMake
5 1 (0.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) Maven
5 1 (0.34%) Selenium
5 1 (0.34%) Valgrind
General
1 113 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 90 (30.41%) Finance
3 41 (13.85%) Law
4 34 (11.49%) Retail
5 32 (10.81%) Legal
6 31 (10.47%) Marketing
7 29 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (9.46%) Banking
9 21 (7.09%) Public Sector
10 18 (6.08%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (5.74%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (4.39%) Billing
13 12 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (3.04%) Military
16 6 (2.03%) Electronics
17 5 (1.69%) Manufacturing
18 4 (1.35%) Advertising
18 4 (1.35%) Back Office
18 4 (1.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 35 (11.82%) Senior
2 21 (7.09%) Network Engineer
3 20 (6.76%) Lead
4 16 (5.41%) Project Manager
5 15 (5.07%) Account Director
5 15 (5.07%) Consultant
6 14 (4.73%) Development Manager
7 13 (4.39%) Account Manager
7 13 (4.39%) Analyst
7 13 (4.39%) Architect
7 13 (4.39%) Business Development Manager
7 13 (4.39%) Business Manager
8 12 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (3.72%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.38%) Installations Engineer
11 9 (3.04%) Operations Engineer
11 9 (3.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.70%) Head of AI
12 8 (2.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.70%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.70%) FastAPI
1 8 (2.70%) Terraform
2 7 (2.36%) LangChain
2 7 (2.36%) LangGraph
2 7 (2.36%) STL
3 3 (1.01%) Google Maps API
3 3 (1.01%) Kafka
3 3 (1.01%) React
4 2 (0.68%) CSS
4 2 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.68%) gRPC
4 2 (0.68%) HTML
4 2 (0.68%) REST
4 2 (0.68%) RESTful
5 1 (0.34%) .NET
5 1 (0.34%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.34%) Drools
5 1 (0.34%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (0.34%) JSON
5 1 (0.34%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 35 (11.82%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.05%) Driving Licence
5 10 (3.38%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.38%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (3.04%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.04%) MPEG
7 7 (2.36%) CCTV
7 7 (2.36%) IoT
7 7 (2.36%) Low-Code
8 6 (2.03%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.03%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.69%) Blog
9 5 (1.69%) Fibre Optics
9 5 (1.69%) Social Media
9 5 (1.69%) TM Forum
10 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.35%) Life Science
10 4 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.77%) Windows
2 13 (4.39%) Linux
3 10 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (20.95%) AI
2 61 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 43 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (12.16%) Project Delivery
6 33 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (10.81%) Presales
8 31 (10.47%) Analytics
9 30 (10.14%) Business Development
10 29 (9.80%) ITIL
11 28 (9.46%) Customer Experience
12 26 (8.78%) Agile
12 26 (8.78%) Roadmaps
13 25 (8.45%) CI/CD
14 24 (8.11%) Decision-Making
15 23 (7.77%) CRM
15 23 (7.77%) DevOps
15 23 (7.77%) Project Management
16 21 (7.09%) Software Engineering
17 20 (6.76%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 33 (11.15%) Python
2 13 (4.39%) SQL
3 8 (2.70%) C++
4 4 (1.35%) Java
5 3 (1.01%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.68%) Bash
6 2 (0.68%) C
6 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.34%) Bicep
7 1 (0.34%) C#
7 1 (0.34%) Go
7 1 (0.34%) Perl
7 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.34%) ProC
7 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (21.96%) Degree
2 23 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (6.76%) CCNP
4 14 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (4.73%) Security Cleared
5 11 (3.72%) CISSP
6 10 (3.38%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.04%) CCNA
7 9 (3.04%) CISM
8 7 (2.36%) BICSI Certification
8 7 (2.36%) DBS Check
9 6 (2.03%) A+ Certification
9 6 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.03%) CCIE
9 6 (2.03%) CCSE
10 5 (1.69%) ACCA
10 5 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.35%) CISMP
11 4 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 4 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (5.07%) QA
2 14 (4.73%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.73%) SLA
3 12 (4.05%) GRC
4 9 (3.04%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.03%) NIST
6 5 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.69%) GDPR
7 4 (1.35%) NEBOSH
8 3 (1.01%) IFRS
8 3 (1.01%) NCSC
8 3 (1.01%) PMO
9 2 (0.68%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.34%) MiFID
10 1 (0.34%) RMADS
10 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (5.41%) Docker
2 15 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.03%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.01%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.03%) Ansible
4 5 (1.69%) Autotask
5 3 (1.01%) Grafana
5 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.01%) WSUS
6 2 (0.68%) Nagios
7 1 (0.34%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.34%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.14%) Cisco
3 15 (5.07%) VMware
4 13 (4.39%) Fortinet
4 13 (4.39%) Google
5 12 (4.05%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.72%) HubSpot
7 10 (3.38%) Veritas
8 9 (3.04%) Arista
8 9 (3.04%) CheckPoint
8 9 (3.04%) Juniper
8 9 (3.04%) Palo Alto
8 9 (3.04%) Zscaler
9 7 (2.36%) Citrix
9 7 (2.36%) F5
9 7 (2.36%) HP
10 5 (1.69%) Ciena
10 5 (1.69%) Databricks
10 5 (1.69%) Kaseya
10 5 (1.69%) ServiceNow