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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 163 224
Rank change year-on-year -10 +61 -52
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 293 280 329
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.34% 2.26% 1.36%
As % of the General category 2.44% 2.96% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 169 147 243
10th Percentile £29,400 £38,650 £31,100
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,625
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,250 £104,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -21.74%

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 12,023 9,459 16,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 54.79% 76.43% 67.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7,716 5,525 11,414
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
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% -6.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £126,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -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 3 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 3 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 -26 32 £45,000 -10.00% 49
West London +3 19 £55,000 -18.52% 13
South London +25 3 £70,000 - 2
East London +1 3 £20,000 -35.48% 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 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.37%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (6.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.73%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (9.56%) AWS
2 23 (7.85%) Azure
3 19 (6.48%) SaaS
4 17 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.10%) Amazon S3
5 12 (4.10%) GCP
6 9 (3.07%) OpenShift
6 9 (3.07%) Serverless
7 8 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.71%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.71%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.37%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.37%) Azure AI
9 4 (1.37%) LangSmith
10 3 (1.02%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.19%) LAN
1 24 (8.19%) WAN
2 22 (7.51%) Broadband
2 22 (7.51%) Firewall
3 21 (7.17%) TCP/IP
4 17 (5.80%) Network Security
5 15 (5.12%) BGP
5 15 (5.12%) Multicast
6 11 (3.75%) 4G
6 11 (3.75%) MPLS
6 11 (3.75%) SD-WAN
7 10 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (3.07%) VoIP
8 9 (3.07%) Wireless
9 8 (2.73%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (2.39%) Cisco IOS
10 7 (2.39%) IOS XR
10 7 (2.39%) OSPF
11 6 (2.05%) DNS
11 6 (2.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.41%) Relational Database
2 9 (3.07%) RDBMS
3 8 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (2.73%) Apache Iceberg
3 8 (2.73%) Big Data
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Hudi
4 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.02%) Delta Lake
4 3 (1.02%) Metadata
4 3 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.68%) Redshift Spectrum
6 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.34%) Flink
6 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.34%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (4.78%) Git
2 2 (0.68%) GCC
2 2 (0.68%) GDB
2 2 (0.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.68%) JIRA
3 1 (0.34%) CMake
3 1 (0.34%) Postman
3 1 (0.34%) Valgrind
General
1 121 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.80%) Finance
3 40 (13.65%) Law
4 36 (12.29%) Legal
5 25 (8.53%) Billing
6 23 (7.85%) Banking
7 21 (7.17%) Marketing
8 20 (6.83%) Retail
9 17 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (4.44%) Public Sector
13 6 (2.05%) Games
14 5 (1.71%) Advertising
15 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.02%) Esports
16 3 (1.02%) German Language
16 3 (1.02%) Military
16 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (11.26%) Account Manager
2 29 (9.90%) Lead
3 28 (9.56%) Senior
4 19 (6.48%) Architect
4 19 (6.48%) Telecoms Manager
5 18 (6.14%) Network Engineer
6 15 (5.12%) Account Director
6 15 (5.12%) Analyst
6 15 (5.12%) Telecoms Account Manager
7 11 (3.75%) Developer
7 11 (3.75%) IT Support
8 10 (3.41%) Administrator
8 10 (3.41%) Consultant
8 10 (3.41%) Data Engineer
8 10 (3.41%) Senior Developer
9 9 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (3.07%) Development Manager
9 9 (3.07%) IT Analyst
9 9 (3.07%) Support Analyst
9 9 (3.07%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.10%) Spring
1 12 (4.10%) Spring Boot
2 11 (3.75%) REST
3 9 (3.07%) AngularJS
3 9 (3.07%) Bootstrap
4 7 (2.39%) Jinja
4 7 (2.39%) NETCONF
4 7 (2.39%) YANG
5 5 (1.71%) Kafka
6 4 (1.37%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.37%) LangChain
6 4 (1.37%) LangGraph
7 3 (1.02%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (0.68%) gRPC
8 2 (0.68%) JSON
8 2 (0.68%) Spring Integration
8 2 (0.68%) Spring MVC
8 2 (0.68%) STL
9 1 (0.34%) SAML
9 1 (0.34%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.90%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (4.78%) MPEG
3 14 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.78%) Social Media
4 11 (3.75%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (2.39%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.71%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.37%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.37%) Virtual Reality
8 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.02%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.02%) Life Science
8 3 (1.02%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.68%) CMDB
9 2 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.14%) Windows
2 7 (2.39%) Linux
3 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (12.97%) Agile
3 36 (12.29%) Business Development
4 30 (10.24%) Analytics
4 30 (10.24%) Regulatory Compliance
5 29 (9.90%) AI
5 29 (9.90%) CRM
6 28 (9.56%) Customer Experience
7 25 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (8.53%) Presales
8 24 (8.19%) IT Strategy
9 23 (7.85%) Information Security
10 21 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (7.17%) Line Management
10 21 (7.17%) Roadmaps
10 21 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (7.17%) Technology Strategy
11 20 (6.83%) B2B
12 19 (6.48%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (6.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.24%) Python
2 14 (4.78%) Java
3 10 (3.41%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.07%) SQL
5 4 (1.37%) C++
6 2 (0.68%) Bash
6 2 (0.68%) C
6 2 (0.68%) Go
6 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.34%) PHP
7 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (17.75%) Degree
2 18 (6.14%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (4.44%) CCNP
4 10 (3.41%) CCIE
5 9 (3.07%) A+ Certification
6 7 (2.39%) CCSE
6 7 (2.39%) CISSP
6 7 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.71%) CISM
7 5 (1.71%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.37%) APMG
8 4 (1.37%) CCNA
9 3 (1.02%) ACCA
9 3 (1.02%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.02%) CCSA
9 3 (1.02%) CISA
9 3 (1.02%) JNCIE
9 3 (1.02%) JNCIP
9 3 (1.02%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (8.19%) GRC
3 23 (7.85%) PCI DSS
4 15 (5.12%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.39%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.39%) SLA
6 5 (1.71%) GDPR
6 5 (1.71%) QA
7 3 (1.02%) IFRS
7 3 (1.02%) NIST
8 2 (0.68%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.68%) PMO
8 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.34%) MiFID
9 1 (0.34%) NCSC
9 1 (0.34%) RMADS
9 1 (0.34%) SOC 1
9 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (3.41%) Docker
2 7 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.02%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.07%) Terraform
3 5 (1.71%) Ansible
3 5 (1.71%) Autotask
3 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.68%) Grafana
4 2 (0.68%) Nagios
4 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.68%) WSUS
5 1 (0.34%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.51%) Cisco
3 10 (3.41%) CheckPoint
4 9 (3.07%) Fortinet
4 9 (3.07%) Palo Alto
5 8 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.39%) F5
7 6 (2.05%) HubSpot
7 6 (2.05%) VMware
8 5 (1.71%) Arista
8 5 (1.71%) DocuSign
8 5 (1.71%) Kaseya
8 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.71%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.37%) Citrix
9 4 (1.37%) Freshdesk
9 4 (1.37%) Google
9 4 (1.37%) Remedy
10 3 (1.02%) BT
10 3 (1.02%) Databricks