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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 233 155
Rank change year-on-year +92 -78 +107
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 308 263 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.58% 1.37% 2.12%
As % of the General category 3.40% 1.98% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 173 155 314
10th Percentile £35,650 £32,000 £41,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,500 £102,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 9,069 13,295 15,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 76.01% 69.33% 67.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,481 7,870 11,947
10th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +39 45 £50,000 -9.09% 92
West London +38 3 - - 18
South London +17 3 £77,500 +127.94%
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.95%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.97%) Confluence
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.65%) SAS
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
Applications
1 30 (9.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (8.44%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (7.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (4.55%) Maya
5 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (2.60%) MS Visio
7 6 (1.95%) Adobe XD
7 6 (1.95%) Sketch
8 1 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.32%) InDesign
8 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.32%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (4.55%) SAP IBP
1 14 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (16.88%) Azure
2 43 (13.96%) AWS
3 37 (12.01%) GCP
4 17 (5.52%) SaaS
5 9 (2.92%) PaaS
5 9 (2.92%) Serverless
6 8 (2.60%) Figma
6 8 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.62%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.62%) IaaS
8 4 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.97%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (0.97%) Cloudflare
9 3 (0.97%) Datadog
9 3 (0.97%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.65%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.32%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.32%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.44%) Firewall
2 15 (4.87%) LAN
2 15 (4.87%) Network Security
2 15 (4.87%) WAN
3 14 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (3.90%) VPN
5 10 (3.25%) BGP
5 10 (3.25%) SD-WAN
6 9 (2.92%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.27%) Internet
7 7 (2.27%) OSPF
7 7 (2.27%) Wireless
7 7 (2.27%) Wireshark
8 6 (1.95%) IP Telephony
8 6 (1.95%) MPLS
9 5 (1.62%) Broadband
9 5 (1.62%) DNS
9 5 (1.62%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (1.30%) IOS XR
10 4 (1.30%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 14 (4.55%) SAP BW
2 12 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.57%) RDBMS
3 11 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.97%) Metadata
6 2 (0.65%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.65%) MySQL
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.32%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 9 (2.92%) Git
2 6 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.30%) JIRA
4 3 (0.97%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.97%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.65%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.32%) CMake
6 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.32%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.32%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
General
1 148 (48.05%) Social Skills
2 145 (47.08%) Finance
3 91 (29.55%) Marketing
4 89 (28.90%) Manufacturing
5 83 (26.95%) Public Sector
6 73 (23.70%) Electronics
7 71 (23.05%) Analytical Skills
8 57 (18.51%) Law
9 46 (14.94%) Banking
10 23 (7.47%) Legal
11 20 (6.49%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (6.17%) Games
13 16 (5.19%) Automotive
14 15 (4.87%) Retail
15 12 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (3.25%) Military
17 7 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (1.95%) Billing
19 5 (1.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (24.03%) Senior
2 52 (16.88%) IT Support
3 33 (10.71%) IT Manager
3 33 (10.71%) Operations Manager
4 31 (10.06%) IT Operations Manager
5 30 (9.74%) IT Support Manager
5 30 (9.74%) Support Manager
6 29 (9.42%) Analyst
7 26 (8.44%) Support Analyst
8 22 (7.14%) IT Analyst
8 22 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
9 20 (6.49%) Architect
10 18 (5.84%) Consultant
10 18 (5.84%) Network Engineer
11 17 (5.52%) IT Support Specialist
11 17 (5.52%) Support Specialist
12 16 (5.19%) Senior Manager
13 15 (4.87%) Developer
13 15 (4.87%) Project Manager
14 14 (4.55%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.87%) FastAPI
1 15 (4.87%) REST
2 14 (4.55%) Middleware
3 11 (3.57%) Flask
4 8 (2.60%) Spring Boot
5 6 (1.95%) Node.js
5 6 (1.95%) RESTful
6 4 (1.30%) Kafka
6 4 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.30%) Spring
7 3 (0.97%) Django
7 3 (0.97%) NumPy
7 3 (0.97%) Pandas
8 2 (0.65%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.65%) Swagger
8 2 (0.65%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.32%) Dask
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.32%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.32%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 20 (6.49%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (5.84%) Video Conferencing
4 16 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 14 (4.55%) PMI
5 14 (4.55%) Reinsurance
6 12 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.25%) Driving Licence
7 10 (3.25%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.95%) Social Media
9 5 (1.62%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.62%) Robotics
10 4 (1.30%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.30%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.36%) Windows
2 16 (5.19%) Linux
3 7 (2.27%) Android
3 7 (2.27%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.65%) Unix
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (29.22%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (25.65%) Programme Management
3 76 (24.68%) Business Intelligence
4 73 (23.70%) Digital Marketing
5 72 (23.38%) Project Management
6 64 (20.78%) Cybersecurity
7 58 (18.83%) ITIL
7 58 (18.83%) Project Delivery
8 50 (16.23%) Agile
9 44 (14.29%) Analytics
9 44 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
10 40 (12.99%) Incident Management
11 38 (12.34%) Service Management
12 37 (12.01%) High Availability
13 36 (11.69%) ITSM
14 33 (10.71%) Incident Response
15 32 (10.39%) Collaborative Working
15 32 (10.39%) Service Delivery
16 31 (10.06%) Root Cause Analysis
16 31 (10.06%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.86%) Python
2 14 (4.55%) SQL
3 13 (4.22%) Bash
4 12 (3.90%) Java
5 10 (3.25%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.62%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.30%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.97%) C
8 3 (0.97%) R
8 3 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.65%) C#
9 2 (0.65%) C++
9 2 (0.65%) Go
10 1 (0.32%) Bicep
10 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.32%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.32%) Perl
10 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.32%) ProC
10 1 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (24.68%) Degree
2 54 (17.53%) PMI Certification
3 40 (12.99%) PMP
4 34 (11.04%) CISSP
5 26 (8.44%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (7.14%) Security Cleared
7 19 (6.17%) CCNP
8 17 (5.52%) A+ Certification
9 15 (4.87%) SC Cleared
10 13 (4.22%) CCIE
11 11 (3.57%) DV Cleared
12 9 (2.92%) Master's Degree
13 7 (2.27%) CCNA
13 7 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.30%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.97%) CCSP
15 3 (0.97%) Check Point Certification
15 3 (0.97%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (15.58%) QA
2 43 (13.96%) GDPR
3 32 (10.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 31 (10.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (4.22%) GAAP
6 9 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.60%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.60%) NIST
8 5 (1.62%) ITGC
9 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.97%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.97%) SLA
10 2 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.32%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (5.52%) Docker
2 11 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) Corosync
5 1 (0.32%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 21 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.49%) Terraform
3 11 (3.57%) Ansible
4 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.97%) Nmap
5 3 (0.97%) WSUS
6 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.32%) Grafana
6 1 (0.32%) Icinga
6 1 (0.32%) Pacemaker
6 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (29.22%) SAP
2 48 (15.58%) Microsoft
3 32 (10.39%) Cisco
4 22 (7.14%) Google
5 14 (4.55%) Ariba
6 13 (4.22%) CheckPoint
7 9 (2.92%) Meraki
8 8 (2.60%) Fortinet
8 8 (2.60%) Oracle
8 8 (2.60%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.60%) SolarWinds
9 7 (2.27%) Adobe
10 6 (1.95%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.62%) Arista
11 5 (1.62%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.62%) F5
11 5 (1.62%) Juniper
11 5 (1.62%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.30%) Citrix
12 4 (1.30%) OpenAI