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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 141 211
Rank change year-on-year -41 +70 -52
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 318 288 276
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.22% 2.46% 1.54%
As % of the General category 2.34% 3.23% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 194 175 140
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,800 £34,700
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 £78,125
90th Percentile £106,750 £100,000 £105,375
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -3.38%

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 13,616 8,918 12,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 52.07% 76.09% 68.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,300 5,431 7,323
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £110,250 £125,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -10.52% -

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 15 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 15 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 +4 40 £45,000 -10.00% 9
West London -4 15 £55,000 - 7
South London +3 9 £55,750 -7.08% 1
East London - 2 £49,000 - 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 10 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.94%) Apache
3 3 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.94%) Confluence
4 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) JBoss
5 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (8.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (8.49%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (5.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.57%) InDesign
4 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.94%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.94%) Revit
6 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (12.58%) AWS
2 39 (12.26%) Azure
3 22 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (5.03%) GCP
5 14 (4.40%) SaaS
5 14 (4.40%) Serverless
6 10 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (3.14%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.83%) Amazon S3
7 9 (2.83%) OneDrive
8 7 (2.20%) Amazon Bedrock
8 7 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.20%) Azure AI
8 7 (2.20%) LangSmith
9 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.57%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.26%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.75%) Firewall
2 30 (9.43%) LAN
3 27 (8.49%) WAN
4 26 (8.18%) TCP/IP
5 20 (6.29%) Network Security
6 17 (5.35%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (4.40%) DNS
8 13 (4.09%) 5G
8 13 (4.09%) Broadband
8 13 (4.09%) DHCP
9 12 (3.77%) BGP
10 11 (3.46%) OSPF
10 11 (3.46%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.14%) Internet
11 10 (3.14%) Multicast
11 10 (3.14%) VoIP
11 10 (3.14%) VPN
11 10 (3.14%) Wireless
11 10 (3.14%) Wireshark
12 9 (2.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.14%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.20%) Big Data
3 5 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.57%) Power BI
4 3 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.94%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.94%) Delta Lake
4 3 (0.94%) Metadata
4 3 (0.94%) Tableau
5 2 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.63%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.63%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.31%) Flink
6 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.31%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (3.77%) Git
2 11 (3.46%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.20%) GCC
3 7 (2.20%) GDB
4 3 (0.94%) GitLab
4 3 (0.94%) JIRA
5 2 (0.63%) MLflow
5 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.31%) CMake
6 1 (0.31%) Maven
6 1 (0.31%) Selenium
6 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
General
1 125 (39.31%) Social Skills
2 85 (26.73%) Finance
3 44 (13.84%) Marketing
4 40 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (11.95%) Law
5 38 (11.95%) Retail
6 30 (9.43%) Legal
7 29 (9.12%) Banking
8 28 (8.81%) Public Sector
9 18 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (3.77%) Billing
10 12 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (3.46%) Military
12 9 (2.83%) Electronics
13 7 (2.20%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.89%) Back Office
15 5 (1.57%) Advertising
15 5 (1.57%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 45 (14.15%) Senior
2 25 (7.86%) Network Engineer
3 19 (5.97%) Lead
4 18 (5.66%) Architect
4 18 (5.66%) Project Manager
5 16 (5.03%) Analyst
6 15 (4.72%) Account Director
6 15 (4.72%) Consultant
7 14 (4.40%) Account Manager
8 12 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (3.46%) Development Manager
9 11 (3.46%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.14%) Business Development Manager
10 10 (3.14%) Business Manager
10 10 (3.14%) Telecoms Engineer
11 9 (2.83%) Installations Engineer
11 9 (2.83%) Sales Manager
11 9 (2.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.52%) Administrator
12 8 (2.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.52%) FastAPI
1 8 (2.52%) Terraform
2 7 (2.20%) LangChain
2 7 (2.20%) LangGraph
2 7 (2.20%) STL
3 4 (1.26%) REST
4 3 (0.94%) Google Maps API
4 3 (0.94%) Kafka
4 3 (0.94%) React
5 2 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.63%) gRPC
5 2 (0.63%) Hugging Face
5 2 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.63%) ONNX
5 2 (0.63%) OpenVINO
5 2 (0.63%) Plotly
5 2 (0.63%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.63%) RESTful
5 2 (0.63%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.63%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.89%) Onboarding
2 39 (12.26%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (4.72%) Driving Licence
5 12 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.77%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (3.14%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.52%) CCTV
7 8 (2.52%) Fibre Optics
7 8 (2.52%) Life Science
8 7 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.20%) IoT
8 7 (2.20%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.20%) MPEG
8 7 (2.20%) Social Media
9 6 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.89%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.89%) Web Conferencing
10 5 (1.57%) Blog
10 5 (1.57%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.55%) Windows
2 14 (4.40%) Linux
3 11 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (20.75%) AI
2 64 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 45 (14.15%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (11.95%) Project Delivery
6 36 (11.32%) Business Development
7 35 (11.01%) Analytics
7 35 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (10.69%) Presales
9 31 (9.75%) Decision-Making
9 31 (9.75%) ITIL
10 30 (9.43%) CI/CD
11 29 (9.12%) Roadmaps
12 27 (8.49%) Customer Experience
13 26 (8.18%) CRM
14 24 (7.55%) Agile
15 23 (7.23%) DevOps
16 22 (6.92%) B2B
16 22 (6.92%) Computer Science
17 21 (6.60%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (12.58%) Python
2 17 (5.35%) SQL
3 8 (2.52%) C++
4 4 (1.26%) Java
5 3 (0.94%) R
5 3 (0.94%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.63%) Bash
6 2 (0.63%) C
6 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.63%) SOQL
6 2 (0.63%) SOSL
7 1 (0.31%) Bicep
7 1 (0.31%) C#
7 1 (0.31%) Go
7 1 (0.31%) Perl
7 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.31%) ProC
7 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (22.96%) Degree
2 22 (6.92%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (5.97%) CCNP
3 19 (5.97%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.72%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.77%) CISSP
7 11 (3.46%) CISM
8 9 (2.83%) CCNA
9 7 (2.20%) A+ Certification
9 7 (2.20%) BICSI Certification
9 7 (2.20%) CISMP
9 7 (2.20%) DBS Check
9 7 (2.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 6 (1.89%) HNC
10 6 (1.89%) HND
11 5 (1.57%) ACCA
11 5 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.57%) ISEB
11 5 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.66%) QA
2 13 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.77%) SLA
4 8 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.20%) GRC
6 6 (1.89%) GDPR
6 6 (1.89%) NEBOSH
7 5 (1.57%) NIST
8 4 (1.26%) ISO 22301
8 4 (1.26%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.94%) IFRS
9 3 (0.94%) NCSC
10 2 (0.63%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.63%) PMO
11 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.31%) MiFID
11 1 (0.31%) RMADS
System Software
1 18 (5.66%) Docker
2 15 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.94%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (2.52%) Ansible
4 4 (1.26%) Grafana
5 3 (0.94%) Autotask
5 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.94%) WSUS
6 2 (0.63%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.63%) Nagios
7 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.06%) Cisco
3 16 (5.03%) VMware
4 15 (4.72%) Fortinet
4 15 (4.72%) HubSpot
4 15 (4.72%) Salesforce
5 14 (4.40%) Google
6 11 (3.46%) Juniper
7 10 (3.14%) Arista
7 10 (3.14%) Veritas
8 9 (2.83%) Zscaler
9 8 (2.52%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.20%) Citrix
10 7 (2.20%) Databricks
10 7 (2.20%) HP
11 6 (1.89%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.89%) NEC
12 5 (1.57%) Adobe
12 5 (1.57%) F5
12 5 (1.57%) ServiceNow