SMS Job Trends in London

Short Message Service (SMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring SMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	443	367	444
Rank change year-on-year	-76	+77	+18
Permanent jobs citing SMS	17	9	4
As % of all permanent jobs in London	0.065%	0.077%	0.023%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	0.92%	0.74%	0.20%
Number of salaries quoted	10	6	3
10^th Percentile	£59,250	-	-
25^th Percentile	£61,875	£38,750	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£82,500	£58,000	£72,000
Median % change year-on-year	+42.24%	-19.44%	-40.00%
75^th Percentile	£100,000	£67,750	£84,125
90^th Percentile	£100,375	-	£91,400
England median annual salary	£35,500	£52,500	£72,000
% change year-on-year	-32.38%	-27.08%	+44.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

SMS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in London.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills	1,849	1,219	1,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London	7.06%	10.39%	11.19%
Number of salaries quoted	1,077	820	1,179
10^th Percentile	£36,250	£30,000	£36,450
25^th Percentile	£46,250	£38,500	£48,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£60,000	£67,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.33%	-10.45%	+3.08%
75^th Percentile	£88,750	£82,500	£82,500
90^th Percentile	£105,000	£102,750	£100,000
England median annual salary	£50,000	£40,000	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+25.00%	-23.81%	-

SMS Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SMS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

SMS Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SMS.

SMS Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SMS in London over the 6 months to 20 October 2026.

SMS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 20 October 2026, job vacancies citing SMS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region with a requirement for SMS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Customer Experience	64.7%	11
2	AI	52.9%	9
2	CRM	52.9%	9
4	LLM	35.3%	6
4	Marketing Automation	35.3%	6
6	Customer Engagement	29.4%	5
6	Digital Marketing	29.4%	5
6	Personalization	29.4%	5
6	Push Notifications	29.4%	5
6	SaaS	29.4%	5
6	Salesforce	29.4%	5
6	SQL	29.4%	5
6	Stakeholder Management	29.4%	5
14	Conversational AI	23.5%	4
14	Conversational UI	23.5%	4
14	Customer Acquisition	23.5%	4
14	Customer Segmentation	23.5%	4
14	Python	23.5%	4
14	Salesforce Marketing Cloud	23.5%	4
20	Business Intelligence	17.6%	3
20	E-Commerce	17.6%	3
20	Product Management	17.6%	3
23	Actionable Insight	11.8%	2
23	AIOps	11.8%	2
23	AWS	11.8%	2
23	Braze	11.8%	2
23	CSS	11.8%	2
23	Customer Intelligence	11.8%	2
23	Data Modelling	11.8%	2
23	Data Quality	11.8%	2

SMS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AMQP	5.9%	1
1	Internet	5.9%	1