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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 135 246
Rank change year-on-year -31 +111 -92
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 322 313 237
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.36% 2.55% 1.22%
As % of the General category 2.52% 3.37% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 188 169 174
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year - +0.39% -7.50%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £108,250 £100,000 £97,675
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -17.39%

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 12,764 9,290 13,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 53.92% 75.67% 69.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7,973 5,622 8,799
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £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 9 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 9 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 -27 31 £45,000 -10.00% 54
West London -13 17 £55,000 - 12
South London +8 8 £70,000 -12.50% 4
East London -5 4 £29,000 -6.45% 11
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 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.93%) Apache
2 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.62%) 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 26 (8.07%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (6.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.93%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.93%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (2.48%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (12.11%) AWS
2 36 (11.18%) Azure
3 25 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (6.83%) SaaS
5 14 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.04%) GCP
7 12 (3.73%) Serverless
8 10 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.11%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.80%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.86%) Amazon Bedrock
10 6 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.86%) Azure AI
10 6 (1.86%) LangSmith
10 6 (1.86%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.24%) WeChat
13 3 (0.93%) AWS IoT
13 3 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.25%) Firewall
2 31 (9.63%) LAN
2 31 (9.63%) TCP/IP
3 29 (9.01%) WAN
4 25 (7.76%) Network Security
5 17 (5.28%) Multicast
5 17 (5.28%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (4.35%) SD-WAN
7 13 (4.04%) DNS
8 12 (3.73%) DHCP
8 12 (3.73%) Wireless
9 10 (3.11%) VoIP
10 9 (2.80%) Broadband
11 8 (2.48%) 3GPP
11 8 (2.48%) BGP
11 8 (2.48%) Structured Cabling
12 7 (2.17%) 5G
12 7 (2.17%) LTE
12 7 (2.17%) RANAP
12 7 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (2.80%) Big Data
2 8 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (2.48%) Apache Iceberg
2 8 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.86%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.93%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.93%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.93%) Metadata
5 3 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.62%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.62%) 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 (3.73%) Git
2 8 (2.48%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.17%) GCC
3 7 (2.17%) GDB
4 3 (0.93%) JIRA
5 1 (0.31%) CMake
5 1 (0.31%) Maven
5 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
General
1 128 (39.75%) Social Skills
2 78 (24.22%) Finance
3 48 (14.91%) Law
4 39 (12.11%) Legal
5 29 (9.01%) Banking
5 29 (9.01%) Retail
6 24 (7.45%) Marketing
7 23 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (6.21%) Public Sector
9 18 (5.59%) Billing
9 18 (5.59%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.48%) Military
12 7 (2.17%) Advertising
13 4 (1.24%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.93%) Arabic Language
14 3 (0.93%) French Language
Job Titles
1 32 (9.94%) Senior
2 27 (8.39%) Account Manager
2 27 (8.39%) Lead
3 17 (5.28%) Network Engineer
4 16 (4.97%) Consultant
5 15 (4.66%) Account Director
5 15 (4.66%) Project Manager
6 14 (4.35%) Architect
7 13 (4.04%) Analyst
7 13 (4.04%) Development Manager
8 12 (3.73%) Business Development Manager
8 12 (3.73%) Business Manager
8 12 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.11%) Software Engineer
10 9 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (2.80%) Data Engineer
10 9 (2.80%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (2.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (2.80%) Solutions Consultant
10 9 (2.80%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.17%) STL
2 6 (1.86%) AngularJS
2 6 (1.86%) Bootstrap
2 6 (1.86%) FastAPI
2 6 (1.86%) LangChain
2 6 (1.86%) LangGraph
2 6 (1.86%) REST
2 6 (1.86%) Spring
2 6 (1.86%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.93%) Kafka
4 2 (0.62%) Google Maps API
4 2 (0.62%) gRPC
4 2 (0.62%) React
5 1 (0.31%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.31%) Drools
5 1 (0.31%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.31%) PySpark
5 1 (0.31%) RESTful
5 1 (0.31%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.31%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.25%) Data Centre
2 31 (9.63%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.97%) MPEG
5 12 (3.73%) Driving Licence
6 11 (3.42%) Video Conferencing
7 10 (3.11%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.80%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.86%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.86%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.86%) Social Media
11 5 (1.55%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.55%) Fibre Optics
11 5 (1.55%) Virtual Reality
12 4 (1.24%) Blog
12 4 (1.24%) IoT
12 4 (1.24%) Life Science
12 4 (1.24%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.24%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.76%) Windows
2 12 (3.73%) Linux
3 10 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (14.91%) AI
3 42 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
4 38 (11.80%) Analytics
5 37 (11.49%) Presales
6 35 (10.87%) Business Development
6 35 (10.87%) Project Delivery
7 33 (10.25%) Regulatory Compliance
7 33 (10.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (9.63%) Agile
9 29 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (9.01%) Roadmaps
10 27 (8.39%) CRM
10 27 (8.39%) Customer Experience
11 26 (8.07%) IT Strategy
12 23 (7.14%) ITIL
12 23 (7.14%) Technology Strategy
13 22 (6.83%) Computer Science
14 21 (6.52%) Information Security
14 21 (6.52%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.32%) Python
2 10 (3.11%) SQL
3 9 (2.80%) Java
4 8 (2.48%) C++
5 6 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.62%) C
6 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
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 69 (21.43%) Degree
2 27 (8.39%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (7.14%) CCNP
4 16 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.42%) CCIE
5 11 (3.42%) CISSP
6 9 (2.80%) CCSE
6 9 (2.80%) CISM
6 9 (2.80%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.48%) CCNA
8 7 (2.17%) A+ Certification
9 6 (1.86%) APMG
9 6 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.86%) SC Cleared
10 5 (1.55%) BICSI Certification
11 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.24%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.24%) PMP
11 4 (1.24%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (7.14%) GRC
3 21 (6.52%) PCI DSS
4 16 (4.97%) Accessibility
5 13 (4.04%) SLA
6 11 (3.42%) QA
7 6 (1.86%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.55%) GDPR
8 5 (1.55%) NIST
9 3 (0.93%) IFRS
9 3 (0.93%) NCSC
9 3 (0.93%) NEBOSH
10 2 (0.62%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.62%) PMO
10 2 (0.62%) 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 (4.66%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.35%) Docker
3 8 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.86%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.24%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.80%) Terraform
3 7 (2.17%) Ansible
4 5 (1.55%) Autotask
5 3 (0.93%) WSUS
6 2 (0.62%) Grafana
6 2 (0.62%) Nagios
6 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.01%) Cisco
3 16 (4.97%) VMware
4 15 (4.66%) Fortinet
5 13 (4.04%) CheckPoint
6 12 (3.73%) Palo Alto
7 10 (3.11%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.11%) Veritas
8 9 (2.80%) F5
8 9 (2.80%) Zscaler
9 8 (2.48%) Arista
9 8 (2.48%) HubSpot
10 7 (2.17%) Citrix
10 7 (2.17%) DocuSign
10 7 (2.17%) Google
10 7 (2.17%) HP
11 6 (1.86%) Juniper
12 5 (1.55%) Kaseya
12 5 (1.55%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.24%) Databricks