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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 152 223
Rank change year-on-year +4 +71 -13
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 320 311 333
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.67% 2.41% 1.43%
As % of the General category 2.84% 3.16% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 204 122 257
10th Percentile £32,825 £38,525 £31,700
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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £109,500 £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 11,281 9,839 15,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 58.80% 76.22% 67.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,906 5,647 11,338
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -4.23%
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% -12.87%

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 17 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 17 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 -27 31 £45,000 -10.00% 43
West London -21 17 £26,200 -62.57% 8
South London +2 2 £45,000 - 3
East London -20 2 £20,000 -35.48% 4
North London -2 1 £35,000 - 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 5 (1.56%) Apache Pulsar
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.63%) Apache
3 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.94%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.94%) Sketch
5 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) NetSuite
1 3 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 38 (11.88%) GCP
2 35 (10.94%) AWS
3 33 (10.31%) Azure
4 15 (4.69%) OpenShift
5 14 (4.38%) SaaS
6 11 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.81%) GitHub
7 9 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (1.88%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.25%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.25%) Cloud Run
10 4 (1.25%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.94%) Anthos
11 3 (0.94%) Apigee
11 3 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.94%) Datadog
11 3 (0.94%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.88%) Broadband
2 16 (5.00%) LAN
3 15 (4.69%) Firewall
3 15 (4.69%) VoIP
3 15 (4.69%) WAN
4 14 (4.38%) Multicast
5 11 (3.44%) 4G
5 11 (3.44%) TCP/IP
6 10 (3.13%) BGP
6 10 (3.13%) MPLS
6 10 (3.13%) Network Security
7 9 (2.81%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (2.81%) Ethernet VPN
8 8 (2.50%) IOS XR
9 7 (2.19%) SD-WAN
9 7 (2.19%) VPN
10 4 (1.25%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.25%) PBX
10 4 (1.25%) PSTN
10 4 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 14 (4.38%) RDBMS
3 7 (2.19%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (1.56%) Big Data
5 5 (1.56%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.94%) Redis
8 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.31%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.31%) KNIME
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.31%) Power BI
9 1 (0.31%) QlikView
9 1 (0.31%) Redshift Spectrum
9 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (4.06%) Git
2 9 (2.81%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.56%) JIRA
4 4 (1.25%) Postman
5 3 (0.94%) GitLab
6 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
General
1 116 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 77 (24.06%) Finance
3 41 (12.81%) Marketing
4 38 (11.88%) Public Sector
5 35 (10.94%) Legal
6 32 (10.00%) Law
7 31 (9.69%) Billing
8 30 (9.38%) Electronics
9 27 (8.44%) Manufacturing
10 19 (5.94%) Banking
11 17 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
12 15 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (4.69%) Retail
13 14 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (3.44%) Games
15 7 (2.19%) German Language
15 7 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.25%) Advertising
17 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (19.38%) Senior
2 39 (12.19%) Lead
3 29 (9.06%) Account Manager
4 24 (7.50%) Telecoms Manager
5 20 (6.25%) Architect
6 19 (5.94%) Telecoms Account Manager
7 18 (5.63%) Analyst
8 17 (5.31%) IT Support
9 16 (5.00%) Developer
9 16 (5.00%) Network Engineer
10 15 (4.69%) Support Specialist
11 13 (4.06%) Java Developer
11 13 (4.06%) Security Engineer
11 13 (4.06%) Senior Developer
11 13 (4.06%) Senior Security Engineer
12 12 (3.75%) Consultant
12 12 (3.75%) IT Support Analyst
12 12 (3.75%) IT Support Specialist
12 12 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
12 12 (3.75%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.69%) REST
2 24 (7.50%) Kafka
3 23 (7.19%) Spring
4 22 (6.88%) Spring Boot
5 21 (6.56%) RESTful
6 17 (5.31%) gRPC
7 16 (5.00%) WebSockets
8 13 (4.06%) AngularJS
8 13 (4.06%) Bootstrap
9 11 (3.44%) OAuth
10 9 (2.81%) Spring Cloud
11 8 (2.50%) Jinja
11 8 (2.50%) NETCONF
11 8 (2.50%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.50%) YANG
12 6 (1.88%) JWT
12 6 (1.88%) Spring Integration
12 6 (1.88%) Spring MVC
13 5 (1.56%) Node.js
14 4 (1.25%) Android NDK
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.19%) Data Centre
2 22 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.94%) Social Media
4 17 (5.31%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.75%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.75%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (2.81%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.81%) MPEG
6 9 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.25%) IoT
9 4 (1.25%) IVR
9 4 (1.25%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.94%) Life Science
10 3 (0.94%) TM Forum
11 2 (0.63%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.81%) Windows
2 21 (6.56%) Android
3 9 (2.81%) Linux
4 5 (1.56%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.94%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.94%) Unix
6 2 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (17.19%) AI
2 51 (15.94%) Agile
3 41 (12.81%) Business Development
3 41 (12.81%) Microservices
4 40 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 38 (11.88%) Mentoring
6 35 (10.94%) Computer Science
7 34 (10.63%) CRM
7 34 (10.63%) DevOps
7 34 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (9.38%) CI/CD
9 30 (9.38%) Machine Learning
10 27 (8.44%) Digital Marketing
10 27 (8.44%) Information Security
10 27 (8.44%) Programme Management
11 26 (8.13%) Analytics
12 25 (7.81%) ITIL
13 24 (7.50%) User Experience
13 24 (7.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 37 (11.56%) Python
2 26 (8.13%) Java
3 20 (6.25%) C++
4 18 (5.63%) Go
4 18 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 17 (5.31%) SQL
6 10 (3.13%) Bash
6 10 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.50%) C#
8 7 (2.19%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.88%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.94%) PHP
11 2 (0.63%) C
11 2 (0.63%) R
12 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 77 (24.06%) Degree
2 33 (10.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.06%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (3.75%) A+ Certification
5 11 (3.44%) CCIE
6 9 (2.81%) CCNP
6 9 (2.81%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.81%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.50%) CCSE
8 7 (2.19%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.88%) CISSP
9 6 (1.88%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.25%) APMG
10 4 (1.25%) CCSA
10 4 (1.25%) CISM
10 4 (1.25%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.94%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.94%) CISA
12 2 (0.63%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.25%) GRC
1 20 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 20 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 10 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.13%) QA
3 7 (2.19%) GDPR
4 6 (1.88%) SLA
5 5 (1.56%) PMO
6 4 (1.25%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.63%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
8 1 (0.31%) SOC 1
8 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (9.06%) Docker
2 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.69%) Terraform
3 10 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.50%) Ansible
5 6 (1.88%) Grafana
6 3 (0.94%) Autotask
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (9.06%) Cisco
2 28 (8.75%) SAP
3 27 (8.44%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.75%) Google
5 9 (2.81%) CheckPoint
5 9 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.19%) F5
7 6 (1.88%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.88%) Palantir
7 6 (1.88%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.56%) Ericsson
8 5 (1.56%) Mavenir
8 5 (1.56%) Nokia
9 4 (1.25%) Arista
9 4 (1.25%) Avaya
9 4 (1.25%) DocuSign
9 4 (1.25%) Genesys
10 3 (0.94%) Kaseya
10 3 (0.94%) Remedy
10 3 (0.94%) Splunk