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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 151 238
Rank change year-on-year -23 +87 -79
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 299 291 288
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.33% 2.34% 1.29%
As % of the General category 2.45% 3.09% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 173 154 214
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £82,188
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £43,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.44% -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 12,180 9,407 15,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 54.17% 75.73% 68.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,811 5,625 10,489
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

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 19 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 19 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 -28 30 £45,000 -10.00% 15
West London -3 15 £55,000 -21.43% 13
South London +15 5 £70,000 -12.50% 1
East London -2 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 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.34%) Apache
3 4 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (7.36%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.68%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (11.37%) AWS
2 26 (8.70%) Azure
3 21 (7.02%) SaaS
4 19 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.01%) Amazon S3
6 11 (3.68%) GCP
7 9 (3.01%) OpenShift
7 9 (3.01%) Serverless
8 8 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.67%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.34%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.34%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.34%) LangSmith
11 3 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.00%) OCI
11 3 (1.00%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.03%) Firewall
1 27 (9.03%) LAN
2 26 (8.70%) WAN
3 25 (8.36%) TCP/IP
4 20 (6.69%) Network Security
5 16 (5.35%) Multicast
6 14 (4.68%) SD-WAN
7 12 (4.01%) Broadband
8 11 (3.68%) Wireless
9 10 (3.34%) BGP
9 10 (3.34%) VoIP
9 10 (3.34%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.68%) DNS
10 8 (2.68%) OSPF
10 8 (2.68%) VPN
11 7 (2.34%) 5G
11 7 (2.34%) DHCP
11 7 (2.34%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (2.01%) Internet
12 6 (2.01%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.34%) Relational Database
2 9 (3.01%) Big Data
2 9 (3.01%) RDBMS
3 8 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (2.68%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Hudi
4 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.00%) Delta Lake
4 3 (1.00%) Metadata
4 3 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.67%) Redshift Spectrum
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.33%) Flink
6 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (3.34%) Git
2 4 (1.34%) GCC
2 4 (1.34%) GDB
2 4 (1.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.67%) JIRA
4 1 (0.33%) CMake
4 1 (0.33%) Valgrind
General
1 119 (39.80%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.74%) Finance
3 43 (14.38%) Law
4 37 (12.37%) Legal
5 27 (9.03%) Retail
6 25 (8.36%) Banking
6 25 (8.36%) Marketing
7 24 (8.03%) Billing
8 22 (7.36%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (5.69%) Public Sector
10 16 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.34%) Advertising
11 7 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.34%) Military
12 5 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.34%) Games
13 4 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.00%) Esports
14 3 (1.00%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 31 (10.37%) Account Manager
2 30 (10.03%) Senior
3 29 (9.70%) Lead
4 15 (5.02%) Account Director
4 15 (5.02%) Architect
5 14 (4.68%) Network Engineer
6 13 (4.35%) Analyst
6 13 (4.35%) Consultant
6 13 (4.35%) Telecoms Manager
7 11 (3.68%) Development Manager
8 10 (3.34%) Administrator
8 10 (3.34%) Business Development Manager
8 10 (3.34%) Business Manager
8 10 (3.34%) Data Engineer
8 10 (3.34%) Developer
8 10 (3.34%) Senior Developer
8 10 (3.34%) Telecoms Account Manager
9 9 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (2.68%) IT Support
10 8 (2.68%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.34%) REST
2 9 (3.01%) AngularJS
2 9 (3.01%) Bootstrap
2 9 (3.01%) Spring
2 9 (3.01%) Spring Boot
3 4 (1.34%) FastAPI
3 4 (1.34%) Kafka
3 4 (1.34%) LangChain
3 4 (1.34%) LangGraph
3 4 (1.34%) STL
4 2 (0.67%) gRPC
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.33%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.33%) PySpark
5 1 (0.33%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.33%) web3js
5 1 (0.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.70%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.02%) MPEG
5 10 (3.34%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (3.01%) Driving Licence
6 9 (3.01%) Social Media
7 7 (2.34%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.01%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.67%) Life Science
9 5 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.34%) IoT
10 4 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.34%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.34%) Virtual Reality
11 3 (1.00%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.69%) Windows
2 9 (3.01%) Linux
3 5 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (12.37%) AI
4 35 (11.71%) Analytics
5 34 (11.37%) Business Development
6 32 (10.70%) Agile
6 32 (10.70%) Regulatory Compliance
7 30 (10.03%) Presales
8 29 (9.70%) CRM
9 25 (8.36%) Customer Experience
10 24 (8.03%) IT Strategy
11 23 (7.69%) Information Security
11 23 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (7.36%) Project Delivery
12 22 (7.36%) Roadmaps
13 21 (7.02%) B2B
13 21 (7.02%) Technology Strategy
14 20 (6.69%) Mentoring
15 19 (6.35%) Computer Science
15 19 (6.35%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (9.03%) Python
2 11 (3.68%) Java
3 9 (3.01%) JavaScript
3 9 (3.01%) SQL
4 5 (1.67%) C++
5 2 (0.67%) Bash
6 1 (0.33%) C
6 1 (0.33%) Go
6 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (20.07%) Degree
2 23 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (6.02%) CCNP
4 12 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.68%) CCIE
6 10 (3.34%) CISSP
7 8 (2.68%) CCSE
7 8 (2.68%) CISM
8 7 (2.34%) A+ Certification
8 7 (2.34%) CCNA
9 5 (1.67%) APMG
9 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.67%) Security Cleared
10 4 (1.34%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.34%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.00%) JNCIE
11 3 (1.00%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.00%) RHCSA
11 3 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (8.36%) GRC
3 23 (7.69%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.35%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.34%) QA
5 7 (2.34%) SLA
6 5 (1.67%) GDPR
6 5 (1.67%) NIST
7 3 (1.00%) IFRS
7 3 (1.00%) NCSC
8 2 (0.67%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.67%) NEBOSH
8 2 (0.67%) PMO
8 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.33%) MiFID
9 1 (0.33%) RMADS
9 1 (0.33%) SOC 1
9 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (3.01%) Active Directory
1 9 (3.01%) Docker
2 6 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.34%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.34%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.01%) Terraform
3 6 (2.01%) Ansible
4 5 (1.67%) Autotask
4 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.67%) Grafana
5 2 (0.67%) Nagios
5 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.67%) WSUS
6 1 (0.33%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.02%) Cisco
3 13 (4.35%) Fortinet
4 12 (4.01%) CheckPoint
5 11 (3.68%) Palo Alto
6 10 (3.34%) VMware
7 9 (3.01%) F5
8 8 (2.68%) DocuSign
8 8 (2.68%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.34%) Veritas
10 6 (2.01%) Arista
10 6 (2.01%) Citrix
10 6 (2.01%) HubSpot
11 5 (1.67%) Kaseya
11 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.67%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.34%) Freshdesk
12 4 (1.34%) Remedy
13 3 (1.00%) Databricks
13 3 (1.00%) Sophos