Telecoms Contracts in England

Telecommunications
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 78 74
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 1,174 1,422 2,316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.13% 3.02% 3.30%
As % of the General category 5.46% 5.11% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 942 1,432
10th Percentile £200 £225 £263
25th Percentile £325 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% -1.75% +8.84%
75th Percentile £607 £623 £600
90th Percentile £775 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -8.40% -1.75% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 41 21
10th Percentile £12.15 £15.50 £19.50
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.22 £21.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +61.54% +22.97%
75th Percentile £72.50 £80.00 £50.85
90th Percentile £77.25 £97.50 £63.13
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +101.92% +4.00%

All General Skills
England

Telecoms falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,502 27,813 40,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.33% 59.13% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,781 19,606 28,322
10th Percentile £281 £315 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,827 910 1,280
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%
75th Percentile £52.64 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in England

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in England.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in England

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in England

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in England.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in England

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in England

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -3 368 £425 +3.03% 163
London 0 344 £475 -9.52% 213
South West +18 210 £600 +2.56% 67
North of England +24 84 £345 -23.33% 101
Midlands +23 69 £440 +17.40% 101
East of England +11 61 £375 -18.92% 52
West Midlands +24 51 £470 +7.43% 67
Yorkshire +41 47 £450 -10.00% 20
North West -7 30 £300 -33.33% 65
East Midlands +7 15 £388 +19.23% 34
North East +10 7 £493 +84.11% 17
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.02%) OpenStack
3 10 (0.85%) SAS
4 9 (0.77%) Confluence
5 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.51%) Apache
7 5 (0.43%) CMS
7 5 (0.43%) IIS
8 4 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) Appian
11 1 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.085%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.085%) Drupal
11 1 (0.085%) MTS
11 1 (0.085%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.085%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.085%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.085%) Smallworld
Applications
1 82 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.77%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.26%) SPSS
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.17%) Maya
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.085%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.085%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.085%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.085%) Revit
10 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.43%) SmartPlant
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.17%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.085%) iTrent
5 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.085%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.085%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.085%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 80 (6.81%) Azure
2 62 (5.28%) AWS
3 43 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (2.64%) Power Platform
5 29 (2.47%) PaaS
6 27 (2.30%) GCP
6 27 (2.30%) SaaS
7 15 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (0.77%) IaaS
9 8 (0.68%) Entra ID
9 8 (0.68%) Serverless
10 7 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (0.60%) Snowflake
11 6 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.51%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.43%) Azure AI
12 5 (0.43%) GitHub
12 5 (0.43%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 72 (6.13%) 5G
2 59 (5.03%) Radio Access Network
3 58 (4.94%) 4G
3 58 (4.94%) VoIP
4 53 (4.51%) WAN
5 45 (3.83%) Firewall
6 44 (3.75%) PBX
7 43 (3.66%) Wireless
8 38 (3.24%) DNS
9 36 (3.07%) LTE
10 34 (2.90%) LAN
11 31 (2.64%) Wireshark
12 30 (2.56%) MPLS
12 30 (2.56%) VPN
13 27 (2.30%) TCP/IP
14 23 (1.96%) 3G
14 23 (1.96%) Internet
15 20 (1.70%) BGP
15 20 (1.70%) DHCP
15 20 (1.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (2.39%) NoSQL
2 24 (2.04%) Metadata
2 24 (2.04%) Power BI
3 21 (1.79%) Data Vault
4 19 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 18 (1.53%) Tableau
6 16 (1.36%) Qlik Sense
7 15 (1.28%) Metadata Repository
8 13 (1.11%) QlikView
9 12 (1.02%) GIS
10 11 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (0.77%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (0.60%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.51%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.51%) Ingres
13 6 (0.51%) Pentaho
13 6 (0.51%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 37 (3.15%) JIRA
2 21 (1.79%) Rational DOORS
3 19 (1.62%) Git
4 8 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.68%) Subversion
5 6 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.43%) GitLab
6 5 (0.43%) Postman
7 4 (0.34%) gcov
7 4 (0.34%) GDB
7 4 (0.34%) Gradle
8 3 (0.26%) ERwin
8 3 (0.26%) NUnit
8 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.17%) MSI
9 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.085%) Appium
10 1 (0.085%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.085%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.085%) TestRail
General
1 382 (32.54%) Finance
2 282 (24.02%) Public Sector
3 281 (23.94%) Marketing
4 274 (23.34%) Social Skills
5 267 (22.74%) Manufacturing
6 261 (22.23%) Electronics
7 83 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (4.00%) Legal
9 40 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
10 33 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (2.81%) Retail
11 19 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.53%) Aerospace
12 18 (1.53%) Mandarin Language
13 12 (1.02%) Law
13 12 (1.02%) Military
14 11 (0.94%) Billing
14 11 (0.94%) Multimedia
15 7 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 187 (15.93%) Architect
2 110 (9.37%) Analyst
3 84 (7.16%) Solutions Architect
4 77 (6.56%) Lead
5 74 (6.30%) Senior
6 71 (6.05%) Project Manager
7 66 (5.62%) Developer
8 64 (5.45%) Network Engineer
9 53 (4.51%) Support Engineer
10 52 (4.43%) Telecoms Manager
11 47 (4.00%) Consultant
12 38 (3.24%) Network Architect
13 30 (2.56%) Lead Architect
14 28 (2.39%) Systems Architect
15 27 (2.30%) Business Analyst
16 26 (2.21%) Data Architect
17 25 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
18 24 (2.04%) Coordinator
19 23 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
20 20 (1.70%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.62%) Web Services
2 17 (1.45%) HTML
2 17 (1.45%) XML
3 16 (1.36%) AngularJS
4 14 (1.19%) CSS
5 13 (1.11%) JSON
5 13 (1.11%) REST
6 12 (1.02%) RESTful
7 9 (0.77%) LDAP
8 8 (0.68%) .NET
8 8 (0.68%) Node.js
9 7 (0.60%) Kafka
9 7 (0.60%) React
9 7 (0.60%) SOAP
10 5 (0.43%) Django
10 5 (0.43%) Middleware
11 4 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.34%) Playwright
11 4 (0.34%) React Native
11 4 (0.34%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.60%) Management Information System
2 44 (3.75%) NHS
3 39 (3.32%) Data Centre
4 37 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
5 32 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 32 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (2.30%) Driving Licence
7 26 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
8 22 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.79%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
11 15 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.02%) Blackberry
12 12 (1.02%) Fibre Optics
12 12 (1.02%) Operational Technology
13 11 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
14 10 (0.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.85%) IVR
15 9 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.68%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 95 (8.09%) Windows
2 65 (5.54%) Linux
3 23 (1.96%) Windows 10
4 20 (1.70%) Unix
5 16 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.94%) Windows 7
7 7 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.43%) Android
9 4 (0.34%) Windows 8
10 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.085%) Solaris
12 1 (0.085%) VMS
12 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.085%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (24.02%) Business Intelligence
2 278 (23.68%) Programme Management
3 258 (21.98%) Digital Marketing
4 129 (10.99%) Agile
5 124 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
6 121 (10.31%) Project Management
7 96 (8.18%) ITIL
8 87 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 76 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (6.22%) Project Delivery
11 68 (5.79%) Roadmaps
12 62 (5.28%) Customer Service
13 57 (4.86%) Computer Science
14 55 (4.68%) Decision-Making
15 54 (4.60%) DevOps
16 53 (4.51%) Customer Experience
17 52 (4.43%) Analytics
18 51 (4.34%) Migration
19 42 (3.58%) Change Management
19 42 (3.58%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 69 (5.88%) Python
2 55 (4.68%) SQL
3 26 (2.21%) PowerShell
4 25 (2.13%) C
4 25 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 18 (1.53%) C++
6 14 (1.19%) Java
7 12 (1.02%) C#
8 9 (0.77%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.60%) Bash
10 7 (0.60%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.34%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.34%) Go
12 4 (0.34%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.34%) R
13 3 (0.26%) PHP
14 2 (0.17%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 262 (22.32%) Security Cleared
2 189 (16.10%) Degree
3 164 (13.97%) SC Cleared
4 107 (9.11%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (2.81%) CCNP
7 27 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.21%) CCNA
9 24 (2.04%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (1.11%) CCIE
12 13 (1.11%) HND
13 12 (1.02%) CISSP
14 10 (0.85%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.77%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.77%) CCIE Data Center
15 9 (0.77%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.24%) QA
2 31 (2.64%) SLA
3 27 (2.30%) PMO
4 20 (1.70%) GDPR
5 17 (1.45%) NIST
6 11 (0.94%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.85%) NIST 800
8 9 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.68%) HL7
10 7 (0.60%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.43%) GAAP
11 5 (0.43%) IFRS
12 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.34%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.34%) JTAG
12 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.34%) RMADS
12 4 (0.34%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.26%) COBIT
13 3 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.21%) Docker
3 23 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.43%) Firmware
4 5 (0.43%) NFS
4 5 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.43%) vSphere
5 4 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.34%) HDFS
5 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.17%) KVM
6 2 (0.17%) QEMU
7 1 (0.085%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 23 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 10 (0.85%) Ansible
2 10 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (0.77%) SCCM
4 8 (0.68%) Terraform
5 7 (0.60%) OpenView
6 5 (0.43%) Puppet
7 3 (0.26%) Amdocs OSS
7 3 (0.26%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.26%) Nessus
7 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.17%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.17%) Nagios
8 2 (0.17%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.17%) vRealize
8 2 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (0.17%) WMI
9 1 (0.085%) Packer
Vendors
1 266 (22.66%) SAP
2 182 (15.50%) Microsoft
3 109 (9.28%) Cisco
4 51 (4.34%) Nokia
5 40 (3.41%) Juniper
5 40 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 34 (2.90%) BT
7 31 (2.64%) Ericsson
8 28 (2.39%) VMware
9 26 (2.21%) Oracle
10 25 (2.13%) Avaya
10 25 (2.13%) Palo Alto
11 22 (1.87%) Google
12 21 (1.79%) IBM
13 14 (1.19%) Huawei
14 12 (1.02%) Actix
14 12 (1.02%) IFS
14 12 (1.02%) Ribbon
14 12 (1.02%) Sparx
15 11 (0.94%) Mitel