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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 156 224
Rank change year-on-year -3 +68 -52
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 299 278 338
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.38% 2.28% 1.38%
As % of the General category 2.51% 2.97% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 171 144 244
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,575 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,125 £103,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -21.05%

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 11,911 9,373 16,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 54.79% 76.97% 66.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,683 5,372 11,501
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £35,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -5.41%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,435 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.24% +9.40% -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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -30 33 £45,000 -10.00% 17
West London -3 20 £55,000 -21.43% 8
East London +1 3 £20,000 -35.48% 6
South London +24 2 - - 3
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 4 (1.34%) Apache
1 4 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.34%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.68%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (8.36%) AWS
2 19 (6.35%) SaaS
3 18 (6.02%) Azure
4 15 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (4.35%) GCP
6 11 (3.68%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.01%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.34%) Serverless
9 4 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (1.00%) Anthos
10 3 (1.00%) Apigee
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.00%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.00%) LangSmith
10 3 (1.00%) OCI
10 3 (1.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.36%) Broadband
2 21 (7.02%) WAN
3 20 (6.69%) LAN
4 19 (6.35%) TCP/IP
5 18 (6.02%) Firewall
6 15 (5.02%) Multicast
6 15 (5.02%) Network Security
7 14 (4.68%) BGP
8 11 (3.68%) 4G
9 10 (3.34%) MPLS
9 10 (3.34%) SD-WAN
10 9 (3.01%) Wireless
11 8 (2.68%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (2.68%) VoIP
12 7 (2.34%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (2.34%) IOS XR
12 7 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (2.01%) 5G
13 6 (2.01%) OSPF
14 5 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.34%) Relational Database
2 9 (3.01%) RDBMS
3 8 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (2.68%) Apache Iceberg
3 8 (2.68%) Big Data
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Hudi
4 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.00%) Delta Lake
4 3 (1.00%) Metadata
4 3 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.67%) Redshift Spectrum
5 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (4.68%) Git
2 3 (1.00%) Postman
3 2 (0.67%) GCC
3 2 (0.67%) GDB
3 2 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.67%) JIRA
4 1 (0.33%) CMake
4 1 (0.33%) Valgrind
General
1 120 (40.13%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.40%) Finance
3 41 (13.71%) Law
4 37 (12.37%) Legal
5 26 (8.70%) Billing
6 21 (7.02%) Banking
7 19 (6.35%) Marketing
8 18 (6.02%) Retail
9 17 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
12 14 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (3.68%) Public Sector
14 8 (2.68%) Games
15 5 (1.67%) Advertising
16 3 (1.00%) Esports
16 3 (1.00%) German Language
16 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.00%) Military
16 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (11.71%) Account Manager
2 32 (10.70%) Lead
3 24 (8.03%) Architect
3 24 (8.03%) Senior
4 22 (7.36%) Telecoms Manager
5 18 (6.02%) Telecoms Account Manager
6 16 (5.35%) Analyst
7 15 (5.02%) Account Director
7 15 (5.02%) Network Engineer
8 12 (4.01%) IT Support
9 11 (3.68%) Consultant
9 11 (3.68%) Developer
10 10 (3.34%) Administrator
10 10 (3.34%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.34%) IT Analyst
10 10 (3.34%) IT Support Analyst
10 10 (3.34%) IT Support Specialist
10 10 (3.34%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.34%) Support Analyst
10 10 (3.34%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.69%) Spring
1 17 (5.69%) Spring Boot
2 13 (4.35%) REST
3 9 (3.01%) AngularJS
3 9 (3.01%) Bootstrap
4 8 (2.68%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (2.34%) Jinja
5 7 (2.34%) NETCONF
5 7 (2.34%) YANG
6 6 (2.01%) Kafka
7 5 (1.67%) Spring Integration
7 5 (1.67%) Spring MVC
8 4 (1.34%) JSON
9 3 (1.00%) Apache Camel
9 3 (1.00%) Java SE
9 3 (1.00%) LangChain
9 3 (1.00%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.00%) OAuth
9 3 (1.00%) SAML
9 3 (1.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.36%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (4.68%) MPEG
4 13 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.35%) Social Media
5 11 (3.68%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (2.68%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.67%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.34%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.34%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.00%) Digital Media
10 3 (1.00%) Life Science
10 3 (1.00%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.00%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.67%) CMDB
11 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.02%) Windows
2 7 (2.34%) Linux
3 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (13.38%) Agile
3 36 (12.04%) Business Development
4 30 (10.03%) CRM
4 30 (10.03%) Customer Experience
4 30 (10.03%) Regulatory Compliance
5 29 (9.70%) Analytics
6 27 (9.03%) AI
7 26 (8.70%) IT Strategy
8 24 (8.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (7.69%) Information Security
9 23 (7.69%) Line Management
9 23 (7.69%) Presales
9 23 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
10 22 (7.36%) Roadmaps
11 21 (7.02%) Mentoring
12 19 (6.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (6.02%) B2B
13 18 (6.02%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.36%) Python
2 19 (6.35%) Java
3 12 (4.01%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.01%) SQL
5 4 (1.34%) C++
6 3 (1.00%) PHP
7 2 (0.67%) Bash
7 2 (0.67%) C
7 2 (0.67%) Go
7 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (17.39%) Degree
2 16 (5.35%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (3.68%) CCNP
4 10 (3.34%) A+ Certification
4 10 (3.34%) CCIE
5 7 (2.34%) CCSE
5 7 (2.34%) CISSP
5 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.67%) CISM
6 5 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.34%) APMG
8 3 (1.00%) ACCA
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.00%) CCIE Security
8 3 (1.00%) CCNA
8 3 (1.00%) CCSA
8 3 (1.00%) CISA
8 3 (1.00%) JNCIE
8 3 (1.00%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (8.03%) GRC
3 23 (7.69%) PCI DSS
4 15 (5.02%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.34%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.01%) SLA
7 5 (1.67%) GDPR
7 5 (1.67%) QA
8 3 (1.00%) IFRS
8 3 (1.00%) NIST
9 2 (0.67%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.67%) PMO
9 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.33%) MiFID
10 1 (0.33%) NCSC
10 1 (0.33%) RMADS
10 1 (0.33%) SOC 1
10 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (4.35%) Docker
2 5 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.01%) Terraform
3 5 (1.67%) Autotask
4 4 (1.34%) Ansible
5 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.67%) Grafana
6 2 (0.67%) Nagios
6 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.67%) WSUS
7 1 (0.33%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.02%) Cisco
3 9 (3.01%) CheckPoint
4 8 (2.68%) Fortinet
4 8 (2.68%) Palo Alto
5 7 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.01%) F5
6 6 (2.01%) Google
6 6 (2.01%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.67%) Arista
7 5 (1.67%) DocuSign
7 5 (1.67%) Kaseya
7 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.34%) Freshdesk
8 4 (1.34%) Remedy
9 3 (1.00%) BT
9 3 (1.00%) Databricks
9 3 (1.00%) VMware
9 3 (1.00%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.67%) Fujitsu