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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 162 246
Rank change year-on-year -9 +84 -80
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 294 287 314
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.33% 2.28% 1.34%
As % of the General category 2.43% 3.00% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 168 154 233
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,575 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £105,000
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 12,121 9,573 16,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 54.69% 76.10% 68.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7,756 5,629 11,131
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,312 £36,250
25th Percentile £54,721 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,073
Median % change year-on-year - +7.03% -6.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 10 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 10 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 -22 30 £45,000 -10.00% 43
West London +4 19 £55,000 -18.52% 12
South London +22 4 £70,000 -
East London -1 3 £20,000 -35.48% 10
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 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.36%) Apache
3 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.72%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (10.54%) AWS
2 25 (8.50%) Azure
3 20 (6.80%) SaaS
4 18 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 11 (3.74%) GCP
7 9 (3.06%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.06%) Serverless
8 8 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.70%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.70%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.36%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.36%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.36%) LangSmith
11 3 (1.02%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.02%) OCI
11 3 (1.02%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.84%) LAN
2 25 (8.50%) Firewall
2 25 (8.50%) WAN
3 23 (7.82%) TCP/IP
4 20 (6.80%) Broadband
5 18 (6.12%) Network Security
6 15 (5.10%) BGP
6 15 (5.10%) Multicast
7 13 (4.42%) SD-WAN
8 11 (3.74%) MPLS
9 10 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (3.40%) Wireless
10 9 (3.06%) 4G
10 9 (3.06%) VoIP
11 8 (2.72%) OSPF
12 7 (2.38%) DNS
12 7 (2.38%) Ethernet VPN
12 7 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (2.38%) VPN
13 6 (2.04%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.40%) Relational Database
2 9 (3.06%) RDBMS
3 8 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (2.72%) Apache Iceberg
3 8 (2.72%) 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%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.34%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (4.76%) Git
2 3 (1.02%) GCC
2 3 (1.02%) GDB
2 3 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.34%) CMake
4 1 (0.34%) Valgrind
General
1 122 (41.50%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.43%) Finance
3 42 (14.29%) Law
4 36 (12.24%) Legal
5 24 (8.16%) Banking
5 24 (8.16%) Billing
6 23 (7.82%) Marketing
7 22 (7.48%) Retail
8 19 (6.46%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
10 14 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (4.76%) Public Sector
11 12 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.04%) Advertising
12 6 (2.04%) Games
12 6 (2.04%) Military
13 4 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.02%) Esports
14 3 (1.02%) German Language
14 3 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 33 (11.22%) Account Manager
2 28 (9.52%) Lead
2 28 (9.52%) Senior
3 18 (6.12%) Network Engineer
4 17 (5.78%) Architect
4 17 (5.78%) Telecoms Manager
5 15 (5.10%) Account Director
6 14 (4.76%) Analyst
6 14 (4.76%) Telecoms Account Manager
7 11 (3.74%) Development Manager
8 10 (3.40%) Administrator
8 10 (3.40%) Business Development Manager
8 10 (3.40%) Business Manager
8 10 (3.40%) Consultant
8 10 (3.40%) Data Engineer
8 10 (3.40%) Developer
8 10 (3.40%) Senior Developer
9 9 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (3.06%) IT Support
10 8 (2.72%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.40%) REST
2 9 (3.06%) AngularJS
2 9 (3.06%) Bootstrap
2 9 (3.06%) Spring
2 9 (3.06%) Spring Boot
3 6 (2.04%) Jinja
3 6 (2.04%) NETCONF
3 6 (2.04%) YANG
4 4 (1.36%) FastAPI
4 4 (1.36%) Kafka
4 4 (1.36%) LangChain
4 4 (1.36%) LangGraph
5 3 (1.02%) STL
6 2 (0.68%) gRPC
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.34%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.34%) PySpark
7 1 (0.34%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.20%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.44%) Onboarding
2 16 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (4.76%) MPEG
4 13 (4.42%) Social Media
5 11 (3.74%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (2.72%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.04%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.36%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.36%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.02%) Digital Media
10 3 (1.02%) IoT
10 3 (1.02%) Life Science
10 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.02%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.68%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.78%) Windows
2 8 (2.72%) Linux
3 4 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (12.93%) Agile
3 37 (12.59%) Business Development
4 33 (11.22%) AI
5 32 (10.88%) Analytics
6 31 (10.54%) CRM
6 31 (10.54%) Regulatory Compliance
7 29 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
8 28 (9.52%) Customer Experience
9 27 (9.18%) Presales
10 25 (8.50%) IT Strategy
11 23 (7.82%) Information Security
12 22 (7.48%) Roadmaps
12 22 (7.48%) Technology Strategy
13 21 (7.14%) Line Management
13 21 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (6.80%) B2B
14 20 (6.80%) Project Delivery
15 19 (6.46%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 31 (10.54%) Python
2 11 (3.74%) Java
3 9 (3.06%) JavaScript
3 9 (3.06%) SQL
4 4 (1.36%) C++
5 2 (0.68%) Bash
6 1 (0.34%) C
6 1 (0.34%) Go
6 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 56 (19.05%) Degree
2 21 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (5.44%) CCNP
4 10 (3.40%) CCIE
5 9 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.72%) A+ Certification
7 7 (2.38%) CCSE
7 7 (2.38%) CISSP
8 6 (2.04%) CCNA
9 5 (1.70%) CISM
10 4 (1.36%) APMG
10 4 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.36%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.02%) ACCA
11 3 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.02%) CCSA
11 3 (1.02%) CISA
11 3 (1.02%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.02%) RHCSA
11 3 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (8.16%) GRC
3 23 (7.82%) PCI DSS
4 15 (5.10%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.38%) SLA
6 6 (2.04%) QA
7 5 (1.70%) GDPR
8 3 (1.02%) IFRS
8 3 (1.02%) NIST
9 2 (0.68%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.68%) NEBOSH
9 2 (0.68%) PMO
9 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.34%) MiFID
10 1 (0.34%) NCSC
10 1 (0.34%) RMADS
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 1
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (2.72%) Active Directory
1 8 (2.72%) Docker
2 5 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.36%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.06%) Terraform
3 6 (2.04%) Ansible
4 5 (1.70%) Autotask
4 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.68%) Grafana
5 2 (0.68%) Nagios
5 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.68%) WSUS
6 1 (0.34%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.82%) Cisco
3 11 (3.74%) CheckPoint
3 11 (3.74%) Fortinet
4 10 (3.40%) Palo Alto
5 9 (3.06%) VMware
6 8 (2.72%) F5
6 8 (2.72%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.04%) Citrix
7 6 (2.04%) DocuSign
7 6 (2.04%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.70%) Arista
8 5 (1.70%) Kaseya
8 5 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.70%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.36%) Freshdesk
9 4 (1.36%) Remedy
10 3 (1.02%) BT
10 3 (1.02%) Databricks
10 3 (1.02%) Google