Telecoms Contracts in the North of England

Telecommunications
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 132 157
Rank change year-on-year +39 +25 -62
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 87 77 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.83% 1.39% 1.27%
As % of the General category 3.35% 2.49% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 49 70
10th Percentile £205 £293 £190
25th Percentile £258 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -13.46% +19.54%
75th Percentile £450 £550 £602
90th Percentile £485 £688 £701
England median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.63% -1.50% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.15 £20.22 £13.50
Median hourly rate £12.30 £20.71 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +47.89% -17.16%
75th Percentile £12.45 £21.19 £14.50
90th Percentile £26.25 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% +50.00% +32.43%

All General Skills
North of England

Telecoms is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,596 3,087 3,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.70% 55.67% 51.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,502 2,122 2,583
10th Percentile £263 £282 £210
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 96 181
10th Percentile £12.13 £13.98 £10.75
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.59 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.52 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.69% +18.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £33.90
90th Percentile £48.75 £51.19 £57.95
England median hourly rate £30.50 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.45% +48.47% +2.14%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Yorkshire +48 47 £450 -10.00% 21
North West -3 33 £303 -32.78% 63
North East +13 7 £493 +84.11% 21
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.15%) Drupal
2 1 (1.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.15%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (1.15%) MicroStation
3 1 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (3.45%) AWS
3 2 (2.30%) IaaS
3 2 (2.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.49%) 5G
2 5 (5.75%) LTE
3 4 (4.60%) PBX
4 3 (3.45%) TETRA
4 3 (3.45%) VoIP
5 2 (2.30%) 3G
5 2 (2.30%) 4G
5 2 (2.30%) IP Telephony
5 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.30%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.30%) Wireless
6 1 (1.15%) 2G
6 1 (1.15%) DWDM
6 1 (1.15%) Firewall
6 1 (1.15%) Internet
6 1 (1.15%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (1.15%) SDH
6 1 (1.15%) SMS
6 1 (1.15%) Softswitch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Ingres
2 4 (4.60%) GIS
3 1 (1.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.15%) ERwin
1 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Finance
3 17 (19.54%) Retail
4 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.34%) Electronics
5 9 (10.34%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.34%) Marketing
6 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.45%) Back Office
7 3 (3.45%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.30%) Legal
8 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (13.79%) Lead
2 9 (10.34%) Analyst
3 8 (9.20%) Team Leader
4 6 (6.90%) DBA
4 6 (6.90%) Ingres DBA
5 5 (5.75%) Data Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Telecoms Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Telecoms Data Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Telecoms Manager
6 4 (4.60%) Architect
6 4 (4.60%) Programme Manager
6 4 (4.60%) Telecoms Programme Manager
7 3 (3.45%) Coordinator
7 3 (3.45%) IT Support
7 3 (3.45%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (3.45%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.45%) SCADA Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Telecoms Engineer
8 2 (2.30%) Cabling Engineer
8 2 (2.30%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.15%) CSS
1 1 (1.15%) CSS3
1 1 (1.15%) HTML
1 1 (1.15%) HTML5
1 1 (1.15%) jQuery
1 1 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (1.15%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.09%) Driving Licence
2 10 (11.49%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.90%) Cyber Defence
3 6 (6.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 6 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (5.75%) SCADA
5 3 (3.45%) CCTV
5 3 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.30%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.30%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.15%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.15%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (1.15%) NHS
7 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.15%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Windows
2 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.15%) Android
4 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (18.39%) Customer Service
2 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
3 12 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (10.34%) Digital Marketing
5 9 (10.34%) Programme Management
6 8 (9.20%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (6.90%) Case Management
7 6 (6.90%) CRM
7 6 (6.90%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 6 (6.90%) Incident Management
7 6 (6.90%) Incident Response
7 6 (6.90%) Information Security
7 6 (6.90%) ITIL
7 6 (6.90%) Protective Monitoring
7 6 (6.90%) SIEM
7 6 (6.90%) SOAR
7 6 (6.90%) Threat Intelligence
7 6 (6.90%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.30%) C#
1 2 (2.30%) Swift
2 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
2 1 (1.15%) Java
2 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
2 1 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.90%) Degree
2 6 (6.90%) DV Cleared
2 6 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.45%) MCSE
5 2 (2.30%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.15%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.15%) CCNA
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.15%) MCP
6 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) NIST
1 6 (6.90%) NIST 800
2 2 (2.30%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) PMO
3 1 (1.15%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.15%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) SAP
3 4 (4.60%) Cisco
4 2 (2.30%) Actian
4 2 (2.30%) Mitel
4 2 (2.30%) Ribbon
5 1 (1.15%) Adobe
5 1 (1.15%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.15%) Google
5 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.15%) Sparx
5 1 (1.15%) VMware
5 1 (1.15%) Workday