Telecoms Contracts with Work from Home Options

Telecommunications
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 77 75 84
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 407 719 1,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.76% 3.01% 2.95%
As % of the General category 4.72% 5.14% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 459 864
10th Percentile £256 £311 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £602
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -8.40% -1.75% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 32 10
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.45 £18.90
25th Percentile £37.50 £41.75 £20.55
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.75 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +150.52% -21.82%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £74.10 £88.38 £32.31
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +101.92% +4.00%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,623 13,983 24,165
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.44% 58.57% 55.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 9,896 17,664
10th Percentile £325 £363 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 316 342
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.66 £13.53
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £34.45
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +42.24% +55.04%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.38 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%

Telecoms
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Telecoms trend for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Telecoms.

Telecoms daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Telecoms daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Telecoms.

Telecoms hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Telecoms hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (1.72%) SAS
1 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.98%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.49%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.49%) CMS
3 2 (0.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.25%) Appian
4 1 (0.25%) Drupal
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.25%) Smallworld
Applications
1 24 (5.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.47%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.25%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.25%) Maya
6 1 (0.25%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.25%) Revit
6 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.23%) SmartPlant
2 2 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.49%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.25%) iTrent
3 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 40 (9.83%) Azure
2 26 (6.39%) AWS
3 16 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (3.69%) GCP
5 11 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (2.46%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.23%) Azure AI
8 5 (1.23%) Twilio
9 3 (0.74%) PaaS
10 2 (0.49%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.49%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (0.49%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.49%) OCI
10 2 (0.49%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.49%) SaaS
10 2 (0.49%) Serverless
10 2 (0.49%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.49%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.42%) WAN
2 17 (4.18%) 4G
3 15 (3.69%) SD-WAN
3 15 (3.69%) VoIP
4 14 (3.44%) Firewall
5 13 (3.19%) MPLS
6 12 (2.95%) Network Security
7 11 (2.70%) 5G
7 11 (2.70%) LAN
7 11 (2.70%) Wireless
8 10 (2.46%) Radio Access Network
8 10 (2.46%) VPN
9 9 (2.21%) 3G
9 9 (2.21%) SDH
10 8 (1.97%) Diameter Protocol
10 8 (1.97%) Internet
11 7 (1.72%) Broadband
11 7 (1.72%) Ethernet
11 7 (1.72%) LTE
12 6 (1.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.46%) Power BI
2 8 (1.97%) Tableau
3 6 (1.47%) Crystal Reports
3 6 (1.47%) Ingres
3 6 (1.47%) Qlik Sense
3 6 (1.47%) QlikView
3 6 (1.47%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.74%) GIS
5 3 (0.74%) Metadata
5 3 (0.74%) NonStop SQL
6 2 (0.49%) Big Data
6 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.49%) MySQL
6 2 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 11 (2.70%) Git
2 9 (2.21%) JIRA
3 6 (1.47%) Cypress.io
3 6 (1.47%) Postman
4 5 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.98%) Subversion
6 3 (0.74%) ERwin
6 3 (0.74%) NUnit
6 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.25%) Appium
7 1 (0.25%) GitLab
7 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.25%) JMeter
7 1 (0.25%) Newman
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 133 (32.68%) Finance
2 93 (22.85%) Social Skills
3 83 (20.39%) Marketing
4 77 (18.92%) Electronics
4 77 (18.92%) Public Sector
5 76 (18.67%) Manufacturing
6 40 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.93%) Legal
9 11 (2.70%) Banking
10 8 (1.97%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.97%) Retail
11 7 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.47%) Police
13 4 (0.98%) Aeronautics
13 4 (0.98%) French Language
14 3 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.74%) German Language
15 2 (0.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 79 (19.41%) Architect
2 42 (10.32%) Lead
3 39 (9.58%) Analyst
4 35 (8.60%) Developer
5 29 (7.13%) Senior
6 28 (6.88%) Network Architect
6 28 (6.88%) Project Manager
7 27 (6.63%) Consultant
8 24 (5.90%) Lead Architect
9 23 (5.65%) Systems Architect
10 21 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (4.42%) Telecoms Manager
12 16 (3.93%) Software Engineer
13 14 (3.44%) Support Engineer
14 12 (2.95%) Technical Support
15 11 (2.70%) Data Analyst
15 11 (2.70%) Technical Engineer
15 11 (2.70%) Technical Support Engineer
16 10 (2.46%) Azure Engineer
17 8 (1.97%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.19%) AngularJS
2 11 (2.70%) RESTful
2 11 (2.70%) Web Services
3 10 (2.46%) CSS
4 9 (2.21%) .NET
4 9 (2.21%) HTML
5 8 (1.97%) REST
6 7 (1.72%) JSON
6 7 (1.72%) Kafka
6 7 (1.72%) Middleware
6 7 (1.72%) XML
7 5 (1.23%) SOAP
8 3 (0.74%) Django
8 3 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.74%) GraphQL
8 3 (0.74%) Playwright
9 2 (0.49%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.49%) LangChain
9 2 (0.49%) Vue
9 2 (0.49%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (3.44%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.46%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.21%) Data Centre
5 8 (1.97%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.47%) IVR
7 5 (1.23%) IoT
8 4 (0.98%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.98%) Device Driver
8 4 (0.98%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.74%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.74%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.74%) PKI
9 3 (0.74%) Verilog
9 3 (0.74%) VHDL
9 3 (0.74%) Wiki
10 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.16%) Linux
2 19 (4.67%) Windows
3 4 (0.98%) Windows 7
4 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.49%) Unix
5 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.25%) Android
6 1 (0.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (22.85%) Business Intelligence
2 83 (20.39%) Programme Management
3 74 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
4 49 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (11.55%) Agile
7 41 (10.07%) Project Management
8 37 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (8.60%) ITIL
10 29 (7.13%) DevOps
11 27 (6.63%) Network Management
12 24 (5.90%) Strategic Thinking
13 23 (5.65%) Analytics
14 22 (5.41%) Systems Engineering
15 21 (5.16%) Change Management
15 21 (5.16%) Project Delivery
16 20 (4.91%) Decision-Making
16 20 (4.91%) Roadmaps
17 19 (4.67%) Computer Science
17 19 (4.67%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.65%) Python
2 21 (5.16%) SQL
3 16 (3.93%) C
3 16 (3.93%) C++
4 15 (3.69%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.70%) Java
6 9 (2.21%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.47%) C#
7 6 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.23%) PHP
8 5 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.98%) Assembly Language
9 4 (0.98%) MATLAB
9 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.98%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.74%) Bash
11 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.25%) Ruby
11 1 (0.25%) Solidity
11 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 69 (16.95%) SC Cleared
3 64 (15.72%) Degree
4 26 (6.39%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.44%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.19%) CCNP
8 12 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (2.70%) Azure Certification
10 10 (2.46%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.72%) CIPD
13 6 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (1.47%) BC Cleared
13 6 (1.47%) HND
13 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.23%) CCIE
14 5 (1.23%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.98%) CISSP
15 4 (0.98%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.42%) QA
1 18 (4.42%) SLA
2 10 (2.46%) GDPR
3 6 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.23%) PMO
5 4 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.98%) GAAP
5 4 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.98%) IFRS
5 4 (0.98%) JTAG
5 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.98%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.49%) COBIT
6 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) NCSC
7 1 (0.25%) NIST
7 1 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 16 (3.93%) Docker
2 7 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.23%) Firmware
4 4 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.49%) KVM
5 2 (0.49%) QEMU
5 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.23%) Terraform
3 4 (0.98%) Ansible
4 2 (0.49%) Grafana
4 2 (0.49%) Nagios
4 2 (0.49%) OpenView
4 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.49%) Puppet
4 2 (0.49%) SCCM
5 1 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.25%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 79 (19.41%) SAP
2 43 (10.57%) Microsoft
3 41 (10.07%) Cisco
4 31 (7.62%) BT
5 11 (2.70%) IFS
5 11 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.46%) Nokia
7 9 (2.21%) Oracle
8 8 (1.97%) Juniper
9 7 (1.72%) Genesys
9 7 (1.72%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.72%) VMware
10 6 (1.47%) Google
11 5 (1.23%) Avaya
11 5 (1.23%) IBM
12 4 (0.98%) Ciena
12 4 (0.98%) Computacenter
12 4 (0.98%) NetCracker
12 4 (0.98%) Splunk