Telecoms Contracts with Work from Home Options

Telecommunications
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 73 84
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 414 719 1,326
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.81% 3.00% 2.99%
As % of the General category 4.80% 5.12% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 458 896
10th Percentile £256 £311 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% -7.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £606
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 32 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.45 £19.50
25th Percentile £37.50 £41.75 £20.70
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +133.65% -24.72%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £28.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £88.38 £50.85
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +72.13% +22.00%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,619 14,055 24,462
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.58% 58.67% 55.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,650 9,923 17,874
10th Percentile £325 £363 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £776 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 318 338
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.59 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.69 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.50 £33.45
Median % change year-on-year -22.99% +47.98% +48.67%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.23 £65.27
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +42.22% +4.65%

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 7 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 7 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 8 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.69%) SAS
3 5 (1.21%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.97%) Confluence
5 2 (0.48%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.24%) Smallworld
Applications
1 26 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.45%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.24%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.24%) Maya
6 1 (0.24%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.24%) Revit
6 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.21%) SmartPlant
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.48%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 39 (9.42%) Azure
2 26 (6.28%) AWS
3 17 (4.11%) GCP
4 16 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (2.42%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.21%) Azure AI
8 5 (1.21%) Twilio
9 4 (0.97%) OCI
10 3 (0.72%) PaaS
11 2 (0.48%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.48%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (0.48%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.48%) SaaS
11 2 (0.48%) Serverless
11 2 (0.48%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.48%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.59%) WAN
2 17 (4.11%) 4G
3 15 (3.62%) SD-WAN
3 15 (3.62%) VoIP
4 14 (3.38%) MPLS
5 13 (3.14%) Firewall
6 12 (2.90%) Network Security
7 11 (2.66%) 5G
7 11 (2.66%) LAN
7 11 (2.66%) Radio Access Network
7 11 (2.66%) Wireless
8 10 (2.42%) VPN
9 9 (2.17%) 3G
9 9 (2.17%) Internet
9 9 (2.17%) SDH
10 8 (1.93%) Diameter Protocol
10 8 (1.93%) Ethernet
11 7 (1.69%) Broadband
11 7 (1.69%) LTE
12 6 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.42%) Power BI
2 8 (1.93%) Tableau
3 7 (1.69%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.45%) Crystal Reports
4 6 (1.45%) Ingres
4 6 (1.45%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (1.45%) QlikView
5 5 (1.21%) Metadata
6 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.72%) GIS
7 3 (0.72%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.48%) Big Data
8 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.48%) MySQL
8 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.48%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (3.14%) Git
2 11 (2.66%) JIRA
3 6 (1.45%) Cypress.io
3 6 (1.45%) Postman
4 5 (1.21%) ERwin
4 5 (1.21%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.97%) Subversion
6 3 (0.72%) NUnit
6 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.24%) Appium
7 1 (0.24%) GitLab
7 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.24%) JMeter
7 1 (0.24%) Newman
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 138 (33.33%) Finance
2 93 (22.46%) Social Skills
3 85 (20.53%) Marketing
4 79 (19.08%) Electronics
4 79 (19.08%) Public Sector
5 78 (18.84%) Manufacturing
6 40 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.62%) Legal
9 13 (3.14%) Banking
10 10 (2.42%) Retail
11 8 (1.93%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.45%) Police
14 4 (0.97%) Aeronautics
14 4 (0.97%) French Language
15 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.72%) German Language
16 2 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (20.05%) Architect
2 41 (9.90%) Lead
3 37 (8.94%) Analyst
4 35 (8.45%) Developer
5 29 (7.00%) Project Manager
6 28 (6.76%) Network Architect
7 27 (6.52%) Consultant
7 27 (6.52%) Senior
8 24 (5.80%) Lead Architect
9 23 (5.56%) Systems Architect
10 21 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (4.83%) Telecoms Manager
12 16 (3.86%) Software Engineer
13 14 (3.38%) Support Engineer
14 12 (2.90%) Technical Support
15 11 (2.66%) Data Analyst
15 11 (2.66%) Technical Engineer
15 11 (2.66%) Technical Support Engineer
16 10 (2.42%) Enterprise Architect
16 10 (2.42%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.90%) AngularJS
2 11 (2.66%) RESTful
2 11 (2.66%) Web Services
3 9 (2.17%) .NET
3 9 (2.17%) CSS
4 8 (1.93%) HTML
4 8 (1.93%) Kafka
4 8 (1.93%) REST
5 7 (1.69%) JSON
5 7 (1.69%) Middleware
5 7 (1.69%) XML
6 5 (1.21%) SOAP
7 3 (0.72%) Django
7 3 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.72%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.72%) Playwright
7 3 (0.72%) YANG
8 2 (0.48%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.48%) LangChain
8 2 (0.48%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (3.38%) Management Information System
3 9 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 9 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 7 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (1.45%) IVR
6 5 (1.21%) IoT
6 5 (1.21%) Wiki
7 4 (0.97%) Algorithms
7 4 (0.97%) Device Driver
7 4 (0.97%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.72%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.72%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.72%) PKI
8 3 (0.72%) Verilog
8 3 (0.72%) VHDL
9 2 (0.48%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.31%) Linux
2 19 (4.59%) Windows
3 4 (0.97%) Unix
3 4 (0.97%) Windows 7
3 4 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) CentOS
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (22.95%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (20.53%) Programme Management
3 76 (18.36%) Digital Marketing
4 50 (12.08%) Agile
4 50 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (9.90%) Project Management
7 40 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (8.70%) ITIL
9 30 (7.25%) DevOps
10 27 (6.52%) Network Management
11 25 (6.04%) Change Management
12 23 (5.56%) Strategic Thinking
13 22 (5.31%) Analytics
13 22 (5.31%) Systems Engineering
14 21 (5.07%) Project Delivery
15 19 (4.59%) Customer Experience
15 19 (4.59%) Decision-Making
15 19 (4.59%) Risk Management
15 19 (4.59%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.56%) Python
2 22 (5.31%) SQL
3 16 (3.86%) C
3 16 (3.86%) C++
4 15 (3.62%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.90%) Java
6 8 (1.93%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.45%) C#
7 6 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.45%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.21%) PHP
9 4 (0.97%) Assembly Language
9 4 (0.97%) MATLAB
9 4 (0.97%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.72%) Bash
11 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.24%) Ruby
11 1 (0.24%) Scala
11 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (20.53%) Security Cleared
2 72 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 65 (15.70%) Degree
4 26 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.14%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.90%) CCNP
8 11 (2.66%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.42%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.69%) BC Cleared
11 7 (1.69%) CIPD
12 6 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.45%) HND
12 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.21%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.97%) CPIM
14 4 (0.97%) ICAEW
14 4 (0.97%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.83%) QA
2 19 (4.59%) SLA
3 12 (2.90%) GDPR
4 8 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.21%) PMO
6 4 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.97%) GAAP
6 4 (0.97%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.97%) IFRS
6 4 (0.97%) JTAG
6 4 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.97%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.48%) COBIT
7 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) NCSC
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
8 1 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 19 (4.59%) Docker
2 8 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.21%) Firmware
4 4 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.48%) KVM
5 2 (0.48%) QEMU
5 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.21%) Terraform
3 4 (0.97%) Ansible
4 2 (0.48%) Grafana
4 2 (0.48%) Nagios
4 2 (0.48%) OpenView
4 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.48%) Puppet
4 2 (0.48%) SCCM
5 1 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.24%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 81 (19.57%) SAP
2 42 (10.14%) Microsoft
3 40 (9.66%) Cisco
4 32 (7.73%) BT
5 11 (2.66%) IFS
5 11 (2.66%) Oracle
5 11 (2.66%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.93%) Google
6 8 (1.93%) Juniper
6 8 (1.93%) Nokia
7 7 (1.69%) Genesys
7 7 (1.69%) Palo Alto
7 7 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.69%) VMware
8 5 (1.21%) Avaya
8 5 (1.21%) IBM
8 5 (1.21%) Sparx
9 4 (0.97%) Ciena
9 4 (0.97%) Computacenter
9 4 (0.97%) NetCracker