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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 139 223
Rank change year-on-year -50 +84 -61
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 306 300 273
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.18% 2.54% 1.45%
As % of the General category 2.27% 3.33% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 185 171 143
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £32,550
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £73,891
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £97,700
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -4.76%

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 13,495 9,021 13,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 52.07% 76.27% 69.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8,288 5,426 7,570
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £125,000 £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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -3 36 £45,000 -10.00% 56
West London -3 15 £55,000 - 29
South London +4 8 £70,000 -9.68% 5
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 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.98%) Apache
3 3 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (8.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (8.17%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (4.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.63%) InDesign
3 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.98%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.98%) Revit
5 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.61%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.42%) Azure
2 36 (11.76%) AWS
3 24 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.90%) GCP
5 14 (4.58%) SaaS
6 13 (4.25%) Serverless
7 10 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.27%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.94%) OneDrive
9 7 (2.29%) Amazon Bedrock
9 7 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.29%) Azure AI
9 7 (2.29%) LangSmith
10 4 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.31%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.31%) WeChat
11 3 (0.98%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.80%) LAN
2 29 (9.48%) Firewall
3 27 (8.82%) WAN
4 26 (8.50%) TCP/IP
5 20 (6.54%) Network Security
6 17 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (4.58%) DNS
8 13 (4.25%) 5G
8 13 (4.25%) DHCP
9 12 (3.92%) Broadband
10 11 (3.59%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.27%) BGP
11 10 (3.27%) Internet
11 10 (3.27%) Multicast
11 10 (3.27%) VoIP
11 10 (3.27%) VPN
11 10 (3.27%) Wireless
12 9 (2.94%) MPLS
12 9 (2.94%) OSPF
12 9 (2.94%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.29%) Big Data
3 5 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.31%) Power BI
5 3 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.98%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.98%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.98%) Metadata
6 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.65%) Tableau
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.92%) Git
2 11 (3.59%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.29%) GCC
3 7 (2.29%) GDB
4 3 (0.98%) GitLab
4 3 (0.98%) JIRA
5 2 (0.65%) MLflow
5 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.33%) CMake
6 1 (0.33%) Maven
6 1 (0.33%) Selenium
6 1 (0.33%) Valgrind
General
1 117 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 88 (28.76%) Finance
3 38 (12.42%) Law
4 37 (12.09%) Marketing
4 37 (12.09%) Retail
5 35 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (10.13%) Legal
7 26 (8.50%) Banking
8 23 (7.52%) Public Sector
9 17 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (4.25%) Billing
11 12 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (2.94%) Military
14 8 (2.61%) Electronics
15 7 (2.29%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.63%) Advertising
17 4 (1.31%) Back Office
17 4 (1.31%) Games
Job Titles
1 41 (13.40%) Senior
2 23 (7.52%) Network Engineer
3 21 (6.86%) Lead
4 16 (5.23%) Architect
4 16 (5.23%) Project Manager
5 15 (4.90%) Account Director
5 15 (4.90%) Analyst
6 13 (4.25%) Account Manager
6 13 (4.25%) Consultant
7 12 (3.92%) Development Manager
7 12 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (3.59%) Business Development Manager
8 11 (3.59%) Business Manager
8 11 (3.59%) Software Engineer
9 10 (3.27%) Installations Engineer
10 9 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (2.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (2.94%) Telecoms Engineer
11 8 (2.61%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.61%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.61%) FastAPI
2 7 (2.29%) LangChain
2 7 (2.29%) LangGraph
2 7 (2.29%) STL
2 7 (2.29%) Terraform
3 4 (1.31%) REST
4 3 (0.98%) Google Maps API
4 3 (0.98%) Kafka
4 3 (0.98%) React
5 2 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.65%) gRPC
5 2 (0.65%) HTML
5 2 (0.65%) Hugging Face
5 2 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.65%) ONNX
5 2 (0.65%) OpenVINO
5 2 (0.65%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.65%) RESTful
5 2 (0.65%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.65%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 35 (11.44%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (4.25%) Driving Licence
5 10 (3.27%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.27%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.94%) MPEG
7 8 (2.61%) CCTV
8 7 (2.29%) IoT
8 7 (2.29%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.29%) Social Media
9 6 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.96%) Fibre Optics
9 6 (1.96%) Life Science
9 6 (1.96%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.96%) Web Conferencing
10 5 (1.63%) Blog
10 5 (1.63%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.63%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.19%) Windows
2 13 (4.25%) Linux
3 10 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (21.90%) AI
2 65 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (11.76%) Project Delivery
6 33 (10.78%) Analytics
6 33 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (10.46%) Presales
8 30 (9.80%) Business Development
9 29 (9.48%) CI/CD
9 29 (9.48%) ITIL
10 27 (8.82%) Customer Experience
10 27 (8.82%) Decision-Making
11 25 (8.17%) Roadmaps
12 24 (7.84%) Agile
13 23 (7.52%) CRM
14 22 (7.19%) DevOps
14 22 (7.19%) Project Management
15 21 (6.86%) Computer Science
15 21 (6.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.76%) Python
2 16 (5.23%) SQL
3 8 (2.61%) C++
4 4 (1.31%) Java
5 3 (0.98%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.65%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.65%) Bash
6 2 (0.65%) C
6 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.65%) R
6 2 (0.65%) SOQL
6 2 (0.65%) SOSL
7 1 (0.33%) Bicep
7 1 (0.33%) C#
7 1 (0.33%) Go
7 1 (0.33%) Perl
7 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.33%) ProC
7 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (22.22%) Degree
2 20 (6.54%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (5.56%) CCNP
4 15 (4.90%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.59%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.27%) CISSP
8 9 (2.94%) CCNA
9 8 (2.61%) CISM
10 7 (2.29%) BICSI Certification
10 7 (2.29%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.96%) A+ Certification
12 5 (1.63%) ACCA
12 5 (1.63%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.63%) CISMP
12 5 (1.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 5 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.31%) RHCSA
13 4 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.56%) QA
2 14 (4.58%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.58%) SLA
3 10 (3.27%) GRC
4 7 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.29%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.96%) GDPR
5 6 (1.96%) NIST
6 4 (1.31%) NEBOSH
7 3 (0.98%) IFRS
7 3 (0.98%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.98%) NCSC
8 2 (0.65%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.65%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.65%) PMO
9 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) MiFID
9 1 (0.33%) RMADS
System Software
1 18 (5.88%) Docker
2 15 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.96%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.98%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.63%) Ansible
3 5 (1.63%) Autotask
4 3 (0.98%) Grafana
4 3 (0.98%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.98%) WSUS
5 2 (0.65%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.65%) Nagios
6 1 (0.33%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.33%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.48%) Cisco
3 15 (4.90%) VMware
4 14 (4.58%) Google
4 14 (4.58%) HubSpot
4 14 (4.58%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.92%) Fortinet
6 11 (3.59%) Juniper
7 10 (3.27%) Veritas
8 9 (2.94%) Zscaler
9 8 (2.61%) Arista
10 7 (2.29%) Citrix
10 7 (2.29%) HP
10 7 (2.29%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.96%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.96%) Databricks
12 5 (1.63%) Adobe
12 5 (1.63%) Ciena
12 5 (1.63%) DocuSign
12 5 (1.63%) Kaseya