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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 168 162
Rank change year-on-year +26 -6 +69
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 290 334 401
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.36% 1.92% 2.07%
As % of the General category 3.16% 2.79% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 185 130 289
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £55,440
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -17.86% +5.66%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,875 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,525 £100,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -12.28%

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 9,168 11,985 13,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 74.56% 68.96% 68.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,650 6,997 10,337
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +15 32 £50,000 - 166
South London +18 6 £45,000 - 1
West London -18 3 - - 16
North London -3 1 £35,000 -6.67% 2
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 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.03%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (7.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (7.24%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (6.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.76%) Maya
5 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (2.41%) Sketch
6 6 (2.07%) Adobe XD
7 4 (1.38%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.34%) InDesign
8 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.76%) SAP IBP
1 8 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 51 (17.59%) Azure
2 38 (13.10%) GCP
3 37 (12.76%) AWS
4 19 (6.55%) SaaS
5 10 (3.45%) PaaS
6 9 (3.10%) Figma
6 9 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.41%) Datadog
8 6 (2.07%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.07%) GitHub
8 6 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.07%) IaaS
9 5 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.72%) Serverless
10 4 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.38%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.03%) Cloudflare
11 3 (1.03%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.69%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.00%) Firewall
2 16 (5.52%) LAN
2 16 (5.52%) WAN
3 12 (4.14%) SD-WAN
4 11 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (3.79%) Wireless
5 10 (3.45%) Broadband
5 10 (3.45%) Network Security
5 10 (3.45%) VoIP
5 10 (3.45%) Wireshark
6 9 (3.10%) IP Telephony
6 9 (3.10%) VPN
7 8 (2.76%) BGP
8 7 (2.41%) Internet
8 7 (2.41%) TCP/IP
9 6 (2.07%) DNS
10 5 (1.72%) Ethernet
10 5 (1.72%) OSPF
11 4 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (1.38%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.86%) NoSQL
2 14 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.79%) RDBMS
3 11 (3.79%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.76%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.03%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.69%) KNIME
6 2 (0.69%) Metadata
6 2 (0.69%) Power BI
6 2 (0.69%) QlikView
6 2 (0.69%) Tableau
7 1 (0.34%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.34%) MySQL
7 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (3.79%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.76%) Git
3 4 (1.38%) GitLab
4 3 (1.03%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.03%) JIRA
4 3 (1.03%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.34%) CMake
5 1 (0.34%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.34%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.34%) Postman
5 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 141 (48.62%) Social Skills
2 131 (45.17%) Finance
3 98 (33.79%) Marketing
4 90 (31.03%) Public Sector
5 85 (29.31%) Manufacturing
6 78 (26.90%) Electronics
7 55 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (15.17%) Law
9 29 (10.00%) Banking
10 24 (8.28%) Legal
11 15 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (3.79%) Games
12 11 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (3.45%) German Language
14 9 (3.10%) Automotive
14 9 (3.10%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (2.76%) Billing
15 8 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.72%) Retail
17 4 (1.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (20.69%) Senior
2 42 (14.48%) IT Support
3 31 (10.69%) Analyst
4 26 (8.97%) IT Manager
4 26 (8.97%) Support Analyst
5 22 (7.59%) IT Analyst
5 22 (7.59%) IT Support Analyst
6 21 (7.24%) IT Operations Manager
6 21 (7.24%) Operations Manager
7 20 (6.90%) IT Support Manager
7 20 (6.90%) Network Engineer
7 20 (6.90%) Support Manager
8 18 (6.21%) Consultant
8 18 (6.21%) Senior Manager
9 17 (5.86%) Support Specialist
10 16 (5.52%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.83%) IT Support Specialist
12 13 (4.48%) Lead
13 12 (4.14%) Architect
13 12 (4.14%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.86%) REST
2 15 (5.17%) FastAPI
3 12 (4.14%) Flask
4 11 (3.79%) RESTful
5 8 (2.76%) Middleware
5 8 (2.76%) Node.js
6 5 (1.72%) Kafka
7 4 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.38%) NumPy
7 4 (1.38%) Pandas
7 4 (1.38%) SOAP
7 4 (1.38%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.38%) Web Services
7 4 (1.38%) WebSockets
8 3 (1.03%) gRPC
8 3 (1.03%) OAuth
8 3 (1.03%) Spring
9 2 (0.69%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.66%) Data Centre
2 23 (7.93%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.17%) Video Conferencing
4 13 (4.48%) Mobile App
5 12 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.10%) Social Media
8 8 (2.76%) PMI
8 8 (2.76%) Reinsurance
9 6 (2.07%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.72%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.72%) IVR
11 4 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.38%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.03%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.03%) VUI
12 3 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.79%) Windows
2 16 (5.52%) Linux
3 11 (3.79%) Android
4 7 (2.41%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.07%) Unix
6 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (28.62%) Programme Management
2 81 (27.93%) Business Intelligence
3 79 (27.24%) Digital Marketing
4 75 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (18.28%) Project Management
6 51 (17.59%) AI
7 48 (16.55%) ITIL
8 45 (15.52%) Cybersecurity
9 42 (14.48%) Agile
9 42 (14.48%) Project Delivery
10 34 (11.72%) Business Development
11 33 (11.38%) CRM
12 32 (11.03%) Analytics
12 32 (11.03%) Incident Management
13 31 (10.69%) High Availability
14 29 (10.00%) CI/CD
15 27 (9.31%) Service Management
16 26 (8.97%) Machine Learning
17 25 (8.62%) Asset Management
17 25 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 68 (23.45%) Python
2 26 (8.97%) SQL
3 17 (5.86%) Bash
4 16 (5.52%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.79%) Java
5 11 (3.79%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.45%) C++
7 7 (2.41%) C#
8 5 (1.72%) Go
9 3 (1.03%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.03%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.03%) R
10 2 (0.69%) C
10 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.34%) Perl
11 1 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (26.21%) Degree
2 35 (12.07%) PMI Certification
3 27 (9.31%) PMP
3 27 (9.31%) Security Cleared
4 24 (8.28%) CISSP
4 24 (8.28%) SC Cleared
5 18 (6.21%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (5.52%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.83%) A+ Certification
8 13 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (3.79%) CCNP
10 8 (2.76%) CCIE
11 7 (2.41%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.72%) CCNA
13 3 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.03%) CCSP
13 3 (1.03%) GCIH
14 2 (0.69%) Dell Certification
14 2 (0.69%) MCSA
14 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.79%) QA
2 34 (11.72%) GDPR
3 25 (8.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 21 (7.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (4.48%) GAAP
6 10 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.76%) Accessibility
8 7 (2.41%) NIST
9 5 (1.72%) EU AI Act
10 3 (1.03%) PMO
10 3 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (7.59%) Docker
2 15 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.34%) Corosync
4 1 (0.34%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.34%) KVM
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.62%) Terraform
3 16 (5.52%) Ansible
4 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.07%) Grafana
6 3 (1.03%) Nmap
7 2 (0.69%) WSUS
8 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.34%) Icinga
8 1 (0.34%) Pacemaker
8 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (29.66%) SAP
2 44 (15.17%) Microsoft
3 37 (12.76%) Cisco
4 24 (8.28%) Google
5 18 (6.21%) Salesforce
6 13 (4.48%) CheckPoint
7 11 (3.79%) Meraki
7 11 (3.79%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.45%) SolarWinds
9 8 (2.76%) Ariba
9 8 (2.76%) Palantir
10 7 (2.41%) Adobe
11 6 (2.07%) Avaya
12 5 (1.72%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.38%) Bloomberg
13 4 (1.38%) Citrix
13 4 (1.38%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.38%) Genesys
13 4 (1.38%) Juniper
13 4 (1.38%) Splunk