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 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 137 243
Rank change year-on-year -45 +106 -94
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 300 302 246
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.25% 2.51% 1.26%
As % of the General category 2.35% 3.32% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 180 168 168
10th Percentile £32,725 £37,125 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £89,375 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,500 £88,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%

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 12,781 9,096 13,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 53.13% 75.49% 69.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7,960 5,485 8,535
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £123,650 £122,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -7 29 £45,000 -10.00% 40
West London -11 16 £55,000 - 22
South London +8 8 £70,000 -12.50% 3
East London - 4 £29,000 - 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 10 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.33%) Confluence
4 2 (0.67%) Apache
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.00%) AutoCAD
5 3 (1.00%) Revit
6 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.67%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (13.00%) AWS
2 36 (12.00%) Azure
3 25 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (6.33%) SaaS
5 14 (4.67%) Amazon S3
6 13 (4.33%) GCP
7 12 (4.00%) Serverless
8 10 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.33%) Entra ID
9 9 (3.00%) OneDrive
10 7 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
10 7 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.33%) Azure AI
10 7 (2.33%) LangSmith
11 4 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.33%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.33%) WeChat
12 3 (1.00%) AWS IoT
12 3 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.67%) Firewall
2 31 (10.33%) LAN
3 29 (9.67%) WAN
4 28 (9.33%) TCP/IP
5 23 (7.67%) Network Security
6 17 (5.67%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (4.67%) Multicast
8 13 (4.33%) DNS
8 13 (4.33%) SD-WAN
9 12 (4.00%) DHCP
9 12 (4.00%) Wireless
10 10 (3.33%) VoIP
11 9 (3.00%) BGP
11 9 (3.00%) Structured Cabling
12 8 (2.67%) Broadband
12 8 (2.67%) OSPF
13 7 (2.33%) 3GPP
13 7 (2.33%) GSM
13 7 (2.33%) UMTS
13 7 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 8 (2.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
2 7 (2.33%) Big Data
3 4 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.00%) Delta Lake
4 3 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.67%) Metadata
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.33%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (3.67%) Git
2 8 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.33%) GCC
3 7 (2.33%) GDB
4 5 (1.67%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) CMake
5 1 (0.33%) Maven
5 1 (0.33%) Valgrind
General
1 115 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 80 (26.67%) Finance
3 43 (14.33%) Law
4 32 (10.67%) Legal
5 30 (10.00%) Banking
6 29 (9.67%) Retail
7 24 (8.00%) Marketing
8 19 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (6.00%) Public Sector
10 17 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (4.00%) Billing
12 10 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (2.67%) Military
15 4 (1.33%) Arabic Language
15 4 (1.33%) French Language
15 4 (1.33%) Mandarin Language
15 4 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (9.67%) Senior
2 25 (8.33%) Lead
3 21 (7.00%) Account Manager
4 19 (6.33%) Network Engineer
5 15 (5.00%) Account Director
5 15 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 14 (4.67%) Analyst
6 14 (4.67%) Consultant
7 13 (4.33%) Architect
7 13 (4.33%) Development Manager
8 12 (4.00%) Business Development Manager
8 12 (4.00%) Business Manager
8 12 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (3.67%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.33%) Installations Engineer
11 9 (3.00%) Operations Engineer
11 9 (3.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (2.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.67%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.67%) Terraform
2 7 (2.33%) FastAPI
2 7 (2.33%) LangChain
2 7 (2.33%) LangGraph
2 7 (2.33%) STL
3 3 (1.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.00%) Bootstrap
3 3 (1.00%) Google Maps API
3 3 (1.00%) React
3 3 (1.00%) REST
3 3 (1.00%) Spring
3 3 (1.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.67%) gRPC
4 2 (0.67%) Kafka
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.33%) Drools
5 1 (0.33%) PySpark
5 1 (0.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 32 (10.67%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.67%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (4.33%) MPEG
5 11 (3.67%) Driving Licence
6 10 (3.33%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (2.67%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.33%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.00%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.00%) CCTV
10 5 (1.67%) Blog
10 5 (1.67%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.33%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.33%) Social Media
11 4 (1.33%) TM Forum
12 3 (1.00%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.00%) Windows
2 12 (4.00%) Linux
3 10 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (17.67%) AI
3 40 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (13.00%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (12.00%) Presales
6 35 (11.67%) Project Delivery
7 34 (11.33%) Analytics
8 31 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (10.00%) Customer Experience
10 29 (9.67%) Business Development
11 28 (9.33%) Agile
12 27 (9.00%) Regulatory Compliance
13 26 (8.67%) ITIL
14 25 (8.33%) Roadmaps
15 23 (7.67%) CRM
15 23 (7.67%) IT Strategy
15 23 (7.67%) Project Management
16 21 (7.00%) CI/CD
17 20 (6.67%) Computer Science
17 20 (6.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 31 (10.33%) Python
2 9 (3.00%) SQL
3 8 (2.67%) C++
4 6 (2.00%) Java
5 3 (1.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.67%) C
7 1 (0.33%) Bash
7 1 (0.33%) Go
7 1 (0.33%) Perl
7 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.33%) ProC
Qualifications
1 64 (21.33%) Degree
2 24 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (7.00%) CCNP
4 14 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.67%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.00%) CISSP
7 8 (2.67%) CCIE
7 8 (2.67%) CCNA
8 7 (2.33%) BICSI Certification
8 7 (2.33%) CCSE
8 7 (2.33%) CISM
8 7 (2.33%) SC Cleared
9 6 (2.00%) A+ Certification
9 6 (2.00%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.33%) APMG
11 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.33%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.33%) PMP
11 4 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (5.67%) GRC
3 15 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 15 (5.00%) SLA
4 13 (4.33%) Accessibility
5 11 (3.67%) QA
6 5 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.67%) GDPR
6 5 (1.67%) NIST
7 3 (1.00%) IFRS
7 3 (1.00%) NCSC
7 3 (1.00%) NEBOSH
7 3 (1.00%) PMO
8 2 (0.67%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
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 15 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 15 (5.00%) Docker
2 8 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.33%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.33%) Ansible
4 5 (1.67%) Autotask
5 3 (1.00%) WSUS
6 2 (0.67%) Grafana
6 2 (0.67%) Nagios
6 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.33%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.33%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.33%) Cisco
3 16 (5.33%) VMware
4 13 (4.33%) Fortinet
5 11 (3.67%) CheckPoint
5 11 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 10 (3.33%) Veritas
7 9 (3.00%) Google
7 9 (3.00%) HubSpot
7 9 (3.00%) Zscaler
8 8 (2.67%) Arista
8 8 (2.67%) Juniper
9 7 (2.33%) Citrix
9 7 (2.33%) F5
9 7 (2.33%) HP
10 5 (1.67%) DocuSign
10 5 (1.67%) Kaseya
10 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.33%) Databricks