Telecoms Contracts in the South West

Telecommunications
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in the South West. 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 22 40 30
Rank change year-on-year +18 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 210 164 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 6.37% 4.84% 6.38%
As % of the General category 12.70% 10.19% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 125 183
10th Percentile £158 £400 £308
25th Percentile £403 £488 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +23.16% +3.12%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £588
90th Percentile £788 £770 £675
England median daily rate £450 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -8.40% -1.75% +8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 1
10th Percentile - £61.13 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £73.44 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £90.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +350.00% -10.79%
75th Percentile £79.38 £101.25 -
90th Percentile £89.50 £101.38 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +61.54% +22.97%

All General Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,654 1,609 1,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 50.14% 47.49% 51.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 988 1,173 1,330
10th Percentile £250 £286 £250
25th Percentile £413 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +8.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £723 £675
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 112 139
10th Percentile £12.84 £17.28 -
25th Percentile £18.16 £37.50 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £57.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +36.90% -1.75%
75th Percentile £68.13 £70.00 £55.92
90th Percentile £73.75 £89.75 £62.52
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the South West 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
Bristol +13 113 £580 +3.11% 19
Wiltshire +8 67 £750 +20.00% 9
Devon +1 11 £165 -70.00% 4
Somerset -4 6 £600 +60.00% 10
Gloucestershire -7 4 £400 -37.25% 16
Dorset - 4 - - 9
Cornwall - 2 £190 - 1
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.48%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 15 (7.14%) SaaS
2 14 (6.67%) Azure
2 14 (6.67%) PaaS
3 11 (5.24%) AWS
4 7 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.48%) GCP
6 1 (0.48%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.90%) PBX
2 22 (10.48%) 4G
2 22 (10.48%) VoIP
3 14 (6.67%) WAN
4 12 (5.71%) 3GPP
4 12 (5.71%) LTE
4 12 (5.71%) Radio Access Network
4 12 (5.71%) Wireless
4 12 (5.71%) Wireshark
5 10 (4.76%) SDH
6 8 (3.81%) 3G
6 8 (3.81%) Firewall
7 4 (1.90%) Junos
7 4 (1.90%) LAN
7 4 (1.90%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.95%) FTP
8 2 (0.95%) RTP
8 2 (0.95%) SAN
8 2 (0.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 19 (9.05%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.48%) Git
2 1 (0.48%) NUnit
2 1 (0.48%) Postman
2 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (31.43%) Public Sector
2 62 (29.52%) Finance
3 56 (26.67%) Electronics
3 56 (26.67%) Manufacturing
3 56 (26.67%) Marketing
4 42 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 11 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.29%) Aerospace
6 9 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.33%) Digital Economy
9 6 (2.86%) Police
10 5 (2.38%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.90%) Military
12 2 (0.95%) Back Office
13 1 (0.48%) Legal
13 1 (0.48%) Local Government
13 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (43.81%) Architect
2 48 (22.86%) Solutions Architect
3 38 (18.10%) Lead
4 29 (13.81%) Lead Architect
5 28 (13.33%) Network Architect
6 26 (12.38%) Systems Architect
7 13 (6.19%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.76%) Field Engineer
8 10 (4.76%) Senior
8 10 (4.76%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.76%) Technical Architect
9 9 (4.29%) Analyst
10 8 (3.81%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.81%) Technical Support
11 6 (2.86%) Field Support Engineer
11 6 (2.86%) Support Specialist
11 6 (2.86%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (2.86%) Technical Specialist
11 6 (2.86%) Technical Support Engineer
11 6 (2.86%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.86%) XML
2 5 (2.38%) RESTful
3 2 (0.95%) .NET
3 2 (0.95%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.95%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.48%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.48%) Playwright
4 1 (0.48%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.19%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (5.24%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (5.24%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (5.24%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.76%) Blackberry
4 10 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (4.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.38%) Verilog
6 5 (2.38%) VHDL
7 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.43%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.95%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.95%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Replication
9 2 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.48%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.76%) Windows
2 4 (1.90%) Linux
3 3 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.48%) Solaris
4 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.48%) Unix
4 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (27.14%) Programme Management
2 56 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (26.67%) Digital Marketing
3 45 (21.43%) ITIL
4 30 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 28 (13.33%) Agile
5 28 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (12.38%) ArchiMate
6 26 (12.38%) Network Management
6 26 (12.38%) Project Management
7 25 (11.90%) Systems Engineering
8 22 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (10.48%) Strategic Thinking
9 21 (10.00%) TOGAF
10 20 (9.52%) Decision-Making
10 20 (9.52%) Roadmaps
11 17 (8.10%) Architecture Governance
11 17 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (8.10%) Presales
11 17 (8.10%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.76%) Python
2 5 (2.38%) C
2 5 (2.38%) C++
3 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.95%) SQL
4 1 (0.48%) Bash
4 1 (0.48%) Bicep
4 1 (0.48%) C#
4 1 (0.48%) Java
4 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 144 (68.57%) Security Cleared
2 100 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 66 (31.43%) DV Cleared
4 47 (22.38%) Degree
5 13 (6.19%) HND
6 12 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
7 10 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.81%) CCNP
10 5 (2.38%) CISSP
11 4 (1.90%) CESG Certified Professional
11 4 (1.90%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.43%) CLAS
12 3 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.95%) HNC
13 2 (0.95%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 1 (0.48%) APMP
14 1 (0.48%) OSCP
14 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.71%) NIST
2 11 (5.24%) SLA
3 9 (4.29%) NIST 800
4 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.90%) JSP 440
4 4 (1.90%) PMO
4 4 (1.90%) RMADS
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 11 (5.24%) Docker
2 6 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.95%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.90%) SCCM
3 3 (1.43%) Terraform
4 2 (0.95%) Puppet
4 2 (0.95%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.48%) Ansible
5 1 (0.48%) Grafana
5 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 56 (26.67%) SAP
2 35 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 34 (16.19%) Nokia
4 26 (12.38%) Cisco
5 22 (10.48%) Ericsson
5 22 (10.48%) Juniper
6 19 (9.05%) IBM
7 12 (5.71%) Actix
7 12 (5.71%) Huawei
8 10 (4.76%) Avaya
8 10 (4.76%) Ribbon
9 9 (4.29%) BT
9 9 (4.29%) Google
10 7 (3.33%) BMC
10 7 (3.33%) Palo Alto
10 7 (3.33%) Remedy
10 7 (3.33%) VMware
11 4 (1.90%) Ciena
12 3 (1.43%) BiZZdesign
13 2 (0.95%) Veeam