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 23 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 180 219
Rank change year-on-year +35 +39 -17
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 323 254 329
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.65% 1.97% 1.42%
As % of the General category 2.83% 2.60% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 202 123 253
10th Percentile £32,750 £40,100 £31,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £109,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -18.18%

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 11,394 9,788 15,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 58.22% 76.01% 67.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,988 5,662 11,310
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,025 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -5.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £125,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.86%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -20 31 £45,000 -10.00% 25
West London -16 18 £26,200 -62.57% 9
East London -15 3 £20,000 -35.48% 4
South London - 1 - - 4
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 5 (1.55%) Apache Pulsar
2 3 (0.93%) Apache
2 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (6.81%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.93%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.93%) Sketch
5 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.24%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.62%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 36 (11.15%) GCP
2 35 (10.84%) AWS
3 33 (10.22%) Azure
4 15 (4.64%) OpenShift
5 14 (4.33%) SaaS
6 13 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (2.48%) GitHub
7 8 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.17%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.55%) PaaS
10 4 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.24%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.24%) Cloud Run
10 4 (1.24%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (0.93%) Anthos
11 3 (0.93%) Apigee
11 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.93%) Figma
11 3 (0.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.81%) Broadband
2 17 (5.26%) LAN
3 16 (4.95%) WAN
4 15 (4.64%) Firewall
4 15 (4.64%) VoIP
5 14 (4.33%) Multicast
6 12 (3.72%) 4G
7 11 (3.41%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.10%) BGP
8 10 (3.10%) MPLS
8 10 (3.10%) Network Security
9 9 (2.79%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (2.79%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (2.48%) IOS XR
11 7 (2.17%) SD-WAN
11 7 (2.17%) VPN
12 4 (1.24%) 5G
12 4 (1.24%) Ethernet
12 4 (1.24%) PBX
12 4 (1.24%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.64%) Relational Database
2 13 (4.02%) RDBMS
3 7 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (2.17%) Apache Iceberg
4 6 (1.86%) Big Data
5 5 (1.55%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.55%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.93%) Redis
7 2 (0.62%) Apache Hudi
7 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.62%) Metadata
7 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.62%) Redshift Spectrum
8 1 (0.31%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (4.33%) Git
2 8 (2.48%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.55%) JIRA
4 4 (1.24%) Postman
5 2 (0.62%) GitLab
6 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
General
1 118 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.22%) Finance
3 35 (10.84%) Billing
3 35 (10.84%) Marketing
4 34 (10.53%) Legal
5 31 (9.60%) Law
5 31 (9.60%) Public Sector
6 24 (7.43%) Electronics
7 21 (6.50%) Manufacturing
8 19 (5.88%) Banking
9 18 (5.57%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (5.57%) Retail
10 16 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (3.41%) Games
13 7 (2.17%) German Language
14 6 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.24%) Advertising
16 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (19.81%) Senior
2 39 (12.07%) Lead
3 27 (8.36%) Account Manager
4 23 (7.12%) Telecoms Manager
5 20 (6.19%) Architect
6 18 (5.57%) Analyst
6 18 (5.57%) Telecoms Account Manager
7 17 (5.26%) IT Support
8 16 (4.95%) Network Engineer
9 15 (4.64%) Developer
10 13 (4.02%) Consultant
10 13 (4.02%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.02%) Security Engineer
10 13 (4.02%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.02%) Senior Security Engineer
10 13 (4.02%) Support Specialist
11 12 (3.72%) IT Support Analyst
11 12 (3.72%) IT Support Specialist
11 12 (3.72%) Senior Java Developer
11 12 (3.72%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.29%) REST
2 25 (7.74%) Kafka
3 23 (7.12%) Spring
4 22 (6.81%) Spring Boot
5 21 (6.50%) RESTful
6 17 (5.26%) gRPC
7 16 (4.95%) WebSockets
8 13 (4.02%) AngularJS
8 13 (4.02%) Bootstrap
9 11 (3.41%) OAuth
10 9 (2.79%) Spring Cloud
11 8 (2.48%) Jinja
11 8 (2.48%) NETCONF
11 8 (2.48%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.48%) YANG
12 6 (1.86%) JWT
12 6 (1.86%) Spring Integration
12 6 (1.86%) Spring MVC
13 5 (1.55%) Node.js
14 4 (1.24%) Android NDK
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.12%) Data Centre
2 22 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.88%) Social Media
4 18 (5.57%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.02%) AI Agents
6 12 (3.72%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (2.79%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.79%) MPEG
7 9 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.48%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.24%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.24%) IoT
10 4 (1.24%) IVR
10 4 (1.24%) TM Forum
10 4 (1.24%) Virtual Reality
11 3 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.93%) Life Science
12 2 (0.62%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.43%) Windows
2 21 (6.50%) Android
3 9 (2.79%) Linux
4 5 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.62%) Unix
6 2 (0.62%) VMS
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (17.03%) AI
2 50 (15.48%) Agile
3 41 (12.69%) Microservices
4 40 (12.38%) Business Development
5 38 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 38 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 36 (11.15%) CRM
6 36 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (10.53%) Computer Science
7 34 (10.53%) DevOps
8 29 (8.98%) CI/CD
8 29 (8.98%) Machine Learning
9 27 (8.36%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (8.36%) Information Security
10 26 (8.05%) Analytics
11 25 (7.74%) ITIL
11 25 (7.74%) Regulatory Compliance
11 25 (7.74%) Roadmaps
12 24 (7.43%) Customer Experience
12 24 (7.43%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.22%) Python
2 27 (8.36%) Java
3 19 (5.88%) C++
4 18 (5.57%) Go
4 18 (5.57%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.64%) SQL
6 9 (2.79%) Bash
6 9 (2.79%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.17%) C#
7 7 (2.17%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.93%) PHP
10 1 (0.31%) C
10 1 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 76 (23.53%) Degree
2 32 (9.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (3.72%) A+ Certification
5 11 (3.41%) CCIE
6 9 (2.79%) CCNP
6 9 (2.79%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.79%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.48%) CCSE
8 7 (2.17%) CISSP
8 7 (2.17%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.86%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.55%) CISM
11 4 (1.24%) APMG
11 4 (1.24%) CCSA
11 4 (1.24%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.93%) CISA
13 2 (0.62%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.19%) GRC
2 20 (6.19%) PCI DSS
3 10 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.79%) QA
5 6 (1.86%) GDPR
5 6 (1.86%) SLA
6 5 (1.55%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.93%) PMO
8 2 (0.62%) NIST
8 2 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.31%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.31%) RMADS
9 1 (0.31%) SOC 1
9 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (8.36%) Docker
2 5 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (12.38%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.33%) Terraform
3 9 (2.79%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.17%) Ansible
5 5 (1.55%) Grafana
6 4 (1.24%) Autotask
7 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (8.36%) Cisco
2 26 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 22 (6.81%) SAP
4 11 (3.41%) Google
5 9 (2.79%) CheckPoint
6 7 (2.17%) F5
6 7 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.86%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.86%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.55%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.55%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.55%) Nokia
8 5 (1.55%) Palantir
9 4 (1.24%) Arista
9 4 (1.24%) Avaya
9 4 (1.24%) DocuSign
9 4 (1.24%) Genesys
9 4 (1.24%) Kaseya
10 3 (0.93%) Remedy
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle