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 29 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 147 243
Rank change year-on-year -10 +96 -92
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 321 300 256
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.40% 2.45% 1.26%
As % of the General category 2.60% 3.24% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 185 162 187
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,500 £100,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -19.13%

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 12,360 9,249 14,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 53.98% 75.48% 69.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,811 5,609 9,267
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,736 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -2.68%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,000
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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -22 31 £45,000 -10.00% 24
West London -9 17 £55,000 - 13
South London +9 8 £70,000 -12.50% 2
East London -6 4 £29,000 -6.45% 7
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
2 8 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.93%) Apache
3 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.62%) Confluence
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (8.10%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (2.49%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (11.21%) AWS
2 33 (10.28%) Azure
3 24 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (6.85%) SaaS
5 13 (4.05%) Amazon S3
6 12 (3.74%) GCP
7 11 (3.43%) Serverless
8 9 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (2.80%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.49%) OneDrive
10 7 (2.18%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
11 5 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.56%) Azure AI
11 5 (1.56%) LangSmith
12 4 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.25%) WeChat
13 3 (0.93%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (0.93%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.66%) Firewall
1 31 (9.66%) LAN
2 30 (9.35%) TCP/IP
3 29 (9.03%) WAN
4 23 (7.17%) Network Security
5 17 (5.30%) Multicast
6 15 (4.67%) SD-WAN
6 15 (4.67%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (3.74%) DNS
7 12 (3.74%) Wireless
8 11 (3.43%) DHCP
8 11 (3.43%) VoIP
9 10 (3.12%) Broadband
10 8 (2.49%) 3GPP
10 8 (2.49%) BGP
10 8 (2.49%) VPN
11 7 (2.18%) OSPF
11 7 (2.18%) RANAP
11 7 (2.18%) SS7
11 7 (2.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.80%) Big Data
2 8 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (2.49%) Apache Iceberg
2 8 (2.49%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.18%) RDBMS
3 7 (2.18%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.93%) Apache Hudi
4 3 (0.93%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.93%) Delta Lake
4 3 (0.93%) Metadata
4 3 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.62%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.62%) Redshift Spectrum
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.31%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (3.43%) Git
2 7 (2.18%) GCC
2 7 (2.18%) GDB
2 7 (2.18%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.93%) JIRA
4 1 (0.31%) CMake
4 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
General
1 128 (39.88%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.36%) Finance
3 47 (14.64%) Law
4 40 (12.46%) Legal
5 29 (9.03%) Retail
6 27 (8.41%) Marketing
7 26 (8.10%) Banking
8 24 (7.48%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (6.85%) Billing
10 20 (6.23%) Public Sector
11 18 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.49%) Advertising
12 8 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (2.18%) Military
14 4 (1.25%) Games
14 4 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.93%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 32 (9.97%) Senior
2 30 (9.35%) Account Manager
2 30 (9.35%) Lead
3 16 (4.98%) Network Engineer
4 15 (4.67%) Account Director
4 15 (4.67%) Architect
4 15 (4.67%) Consultant
5 13 (4.05%) Analyst
6 12 (3.74%) Development Manager
7 11 (3.43%) Business Development Manager
7 11 (3.43%) Business Manager
7 11 (3.43%) Telecoms Manager
8 10 (3.12%) Administrator
8 10 (3.12%) Project Manager
9 9 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (2.80%) Data Engineer
9 9 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (2.80%) Operations Engineer
9 9 (2.80%) Software Engineer
10 8 (2.49%) Telecoms Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.49%) REST
2 7 (2.18%) AngularJS
2 7 (2.18%) Bootstrap
2 7 (2.18%) Spring
2 7 (2.18%) Spring Boot
2 7 (2.18%) STL
3 5 (1.56%) FastAPI
3 5 (1.56%) LangChain
3 5 (1.56%) LangGraph
4 3 (0.93%) Kafka
5 2 (0.62%) gRPC
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.31%) Google Maps API
6 1 (0.31%) JSON
6 1 (0.31%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.31%) PySpark
6 1 (0.31%) React
6 1 (0.31%) Streamlit
6 1 (0.31%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.03%) Data Centre
2 26 (8.10%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.92%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.98%) MPEG
5 11 (3.43%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (3.12%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.12%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.49%) Social Media
8 7 (2.18%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.18%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.56%) Life Science
10 5 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.56%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (1.25%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.25%) IoT
11 4 (1.25%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.25%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.85%) Windows
2 12 (3.74%) Linux
3 9 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (14.33%) AI
3 41 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
4 38 (11.84%) Analytics
5 36 (11.21%) Business Development
5 36 (11.21%) Regulatory Compliance
6 35 (10.90%) Presales
7 32 (9.97%) Agile
8 30 (9.35%) Project Delivery
9 28 (8.72%) CRM
10 27 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (8.10%) Customer Experience
11 26 (8.10%) IT Strategy
11 26 (8.10%) Roadmaps
12 24 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (7.17%) Information Security
13 23 (7.17%) Technology Strategy
14 22 (6.85%) Computer Science
15 21 (6.54%) B2B
16 20 (6.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (9.03%) Python
2 10 (3.12%) Java
3 9 (2.80%) SQL
4 8 (2.49%) C++
5 7 (2.18%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.31%) Bash
6 1 (0.31%) C
6 1 (0.31%) Go
6 1 (0.31%) Perl
6 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (21.18%) Degree
2 26 (8.10%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (6.85%) CCNP
4 16 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.43%) CCIE
5 11 (3.43%) CISSP
6 9 (2.80%) CCSE
6 9 (2.80%) CISM
7 8 (2.49%) CCNA
8 7 (2.18%) A+ Certification
8 7 (2.18%) Security Cleared
9 6 (1.87%) APMG
9 6 (1.87%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.56%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.25%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.93%) CCIE Security
12 3 (0.93%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (7.79%) GRC
3 23 (7.17%) PCI DSS
4 16 (4.98%) Accessibility
5 11 (3.43%) QA
6 10 (3.12%) SLA
7 6 (1.87%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.56%) GDPR
8 5 (1.56%) NIST
9 3 (0.93%) IFRS
9 3 (0.93%) NCSC
10 2 (0.62%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.62%) NEBOSH
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 14 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.05%) Docker
3 8 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.87%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.25%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (2.49%) Terraform
3 7 (2.18%) Ansible
4 5 (1.56%) 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 37 (11.53%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.10%) Cisco
3 15 (4.67%) Fortinet
3 15 (4.67%) VMware
4 13 (4.05%) CheckPoint
5 12 (3.74%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.80%) DocuSign
6 9 (2.80%) F5
6 9 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.80%) Veritas
7 8 (2.49%) Zscaler
8 7 (2.18%) Arista
8 7 (2.18%) Citrix
8 7 (2.18%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.87%) HP
10 5 (1.56%) Google
10 5 (1.56%) Juniper
10 5 (1.56%) Kaseya
10 5 (1.56%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.25%) Remedy