Telecoms Contracts in England

Telecommunications
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 81 71
Rank change year-on-year +18 -10 -6
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 1,211 1,511 2,397
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.28% 2.99% 3.37%
As % of the General category 5.61% 5.05% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 1,034 1,539
10th Percentile £200 £231 £262
25th Percentile £333 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +7.07%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £590
90th Percentile £738 £725 £694
UK median daily rate £450 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 41 31
10th Percentile £12.15 £19.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.22 £25.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% +22.15%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £61.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £90.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +61.54% +19.84%

All General Skills
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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -4 343 £400 -3.03% 128
London +6 340 £514 -2.19% 180
South West +20 221 £575 - 60
North of England +62 107 £375 -25.00% 102
Midlands +39 82 £442 +35.92% 95
East of England +23 67 £375 -21.05% 58
West Midlands +50 64 £450 - 65
North West +26 55 £350 -30.00% 66
Yorkshire +42 44 £450 -10.00% 23
East Midlands +14 15 £275 +15.79% 30
North East +23 8 £493 +47.01% 14
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 35 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.73%) Apache
3 15 (1.24%) IIS
3 15 (1.24%) Tomcat
4 14 (1.16%) OpenStack
5 12 (0.99%) Confluence
5 12 (0.99%) SAS
6 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.41%) CMS
8 4 (0.33%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.083%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.083%) Appian
10 1 (0.083%) Drupal
10 1 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.083%) MTS
10 1 (0.083%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.083%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.083%) WebLogic
Applications
1 83 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.74%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.66%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.25%) SPSS
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.17%) Maya
9 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.083%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.083%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (0.74%) SAP BRIM
2 9 (0.74%) SAP Hybris
2 9 (0.74%) SAP PSCD
3 8 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.41%) SmartPlant
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.17%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.083%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.083%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.083%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 83 (6.85%) Azure
2 73 (6.03%) AWS
3 41 (3.39%) PaaS
4 39 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (2.73%) Power Platform
6 25 (2.06%) SaaS
7 23 (1.90%) GCP
8 19 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (1.40%) IaaS
10 11 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (0.83%) Serverless
12 9 (0.74%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 8 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (0.58%) Snowflake
15 6 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (0.50%) Azure Functions
15 6 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.50%) Entra ID
15 6 (0.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 62 (5.12%) 5G
2 61 (5.04%) WAN
3 52 (4.29%) Firewall
4 51 (4.21%) VoIP
5 49 (4.05%) Radio Access Network
6 47 (3.88%) 4G
7 44 (3.63%) Wireless
8 41 (3.39%) PBX
9 38 (3.14%) LAN
9 38 (3.14%) VPN
10 36 (2.97%) DNS
11 33 (2.73%) Internet
11 33 (2.73%) TCP/IP
12 32 (2.64%) MPLS
13 29 (2.39%) LTE
14 26 (2.15%) Wireshark
15 24 (1.98%) 3G
15 24 (1.98%) HTTP
16 21 (1.73%) BGP
16 21 (1.73%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (2.64%) NoSQL
2 31 (2.56%) Metadata
3 26 (2.15%) Power BI
4 25 (2.06%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.65%) Data Vault
6 18 (1.49%) Tableau
7 16 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
8 14 (1.16%) Metadata Repository
9 13 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.07%) QlikView
10 10 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (0.74%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
11 9 (0.74%) GIS
12 7 (0.58%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.50%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.50%) Ingres
13 6 (0.50%) Pentaho
13 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (3.14%) JIRA
2 25 (2.06%) Git
3 20 (1.65%) Rational DOORS
4 14 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.83%) ERwin
6 8 (0.66%) Subversion
7 6 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.50%) GitLab
8 5 (0.41%) NUnit
8 5 (0.41%) Postman
9 4 (0.33%) gcov
9 4 (0.33%) GDB
9 4 (0.33%) Gradle
10 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.17%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.083%) Appium
12 1 (0.083%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.083%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.083%) TestRail
General
1 429 (35.43%) Finance
2 345 (28.49%) Public Sector
3 337 (27.83%) Marketing
4 315 (26.01%) Manufacturing
5 314 (25.93%) Electronics
6 306 (25.27%) Social Skills
7 91 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
8 59 (4.87%) Legal
9 31 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (2.56%) Retail
10 29 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (1.73%) Mandarin Language
14 20 (1.65%) Billing
15 16 (1.32%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.07%) Law
16 13 (1.07%) Military
17 10 (0.83%) Multimedia
18 8 (0.66%) German Language
Job Titles
1 178 (14.70%) Architect
2 114 (9.41%) Analyst
3 82 (6.77%) Lead
3 82 (6.77%) Project Manager
4 75 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
5 67 (5.53%) Senior
6 65 (5.37%) Network Engineer
7 62 (5.12%) Consultant
8 58 (4.79%) Developer
8 58 (4.79%) Support Engineer
9 51 (4.21%) Telecoms Manager
10 34 (2.81%) Data Architect
11 32 (2.64%) Network Architect
12 31 (2.56%) Lead Architect
13 28 (2.31%) Business Analyst
14 25 (2.06%) Desktop Engineer
15 24 (1.98%) Coordinator
15 24 (1.98%) Delivery Manager
15 24 (1.98%) Systems Architect
16 23 (1.90%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.57%) RESTful
2 16 (1.32%) Web Services
3 15 (1.24%) .NET
3 15 (1.24%) XML
4 14 (1.16%) JSON
5 13 (1.07%) HTML
6 12 (0.99%) AngularJS
6 12 (0.99%) REST
7 10 (0.83%) CSS
7 10 (0.83%) LDAP
7 10 (0.83%) Node.js
8 9 (0.74%) Kafka
9 8 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.58%) YANG
11 5 (0.41%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.41%) React
11 5 (0.41%) SOAP
11 5 (0.41%) YAML
12 4 (0.33%) Django
12 4 (0.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.38%) Management Information System
2 51 (4.21%) NHS
3 44 (3.63%) Data Protection Act
4 42 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 30 (2.48%) Video Conferencing
6 29 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.31%) Onboarding
8 26 (2.15%) Driving Licence
9 25 (2.06%) Product Ownership
10 22 (1.82%) IVR
11 20 (1.65%) Reference Data
12 17 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
14 13 (1.07%) Operational Technology
15 12 (0.99%) Blackberry
16 11 (0.91%) CCTV
16 11 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
16 11 (0.91%) Fibre Optics
17 10 (0.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 10 (0.83%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 108 (8.92%) Windows
2 78 (6.44%) Linux
3 30 (2.48%) Windows 10
4 20 (1.65%) Unix
5 19 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.99%) Windows 7
8 7 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.41%) CentOS
9 5 (0.41%) VMS
10 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.33%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.17%) Android
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.083%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.083%) Solaris
13 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.083%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.083%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
2 331 (27.33%) Programme Management
3 312 (25.76%) Digital Marketing
4 138 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (10.49%) Project Management
6 115 (9.50%) Agile
7 111 (9.17%) ITIL
8 90 (7.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 83 (6.85%) Project Delivery
10 82 (6.77%) Roadmaps
11 76 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 67 (5.53%) Change Management
13 61 (5.04%) Customer Service
14 59 (4.87%) Decision-Making
15 49 (4.05%) Computer Science
16 48 (3.96%) Analytics
16 48 (3.96%) Data Protection
16 48 (3.96%) DevOps
17 45 (3.72%) Data Modelling
17 45 (3.72%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (5.37%) Python
1 65 (5.37%) SQL
2 23 (1.90%) JavaScript
3 20 (1.65%) PowerShell
4 19 (1.57%) C
5 17 (1.40%) Java
6 16 (1.32%) C#
6 16 (1.32%) C++
7 12 (0.99%) Bash
8 9 (0.74%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.66%) Go
10 7 (0.58%) MATLAB
11 6 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.33%) Assembly Language
14 3 (0.25%) PHP
14 3 (0.25%) R
15 2 (0.17%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 264 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 181 (14.95%) SC Cleared
3 177 (14.62%) Degree
4 96 (7.93%) DV Cleared
5 54 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (2.97%) CCNP
7 26 (2.15%) CCNA
8 21 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.24%) CISSP
10 15 (1.24%) PMP
11 14 (1.16%) HND
11 14 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.07%) PMI Certification
13 12 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.91%) CCIE
15 10 (0.83%) AWS Certification
16 9 (0.74%) CCIE Data Center
16 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.66%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (3.72%) QA
2 29 (2.39%) PMO
3 28 (2.31%) GDPR
3 28 (2.31%) SLA
4 22 (1.82%) NIST
5 18 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.83%) NIST 800
8 8 (0.66%) HL7
9 5 (0.41%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.41%) COBIT
9 5 (0.41%) GRC
9 5 (0.41%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.41%) RMADS
10 4 (0.33%) GAAP
10 4 (0.33%) IFRS
10 4 (0.33%) JTAG
10 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.15%) Docker
3 13 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.66%) Firmware
5 8 (0.66%) NFS
6 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.33%) HDFS
8 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.083%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.083%) vSphere
10 1 (0.083%) XenApp
10 1 (0.083%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 24 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 22 (1.82%) Terraform
3 17 (1.40%) Ansible
4 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.50%) SCCM
7 5 (0.41%) Grafana
7 5 (0.41%) OpenView
7 5 (0.41%) Puppet
8 4 (0.33%) CA Service Virtualization
8 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.25%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.17%) Ambari
10 2 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.17%) Nessus
10 2 (0.17%) Oozie
10 2 (0.17%) SCOM
10 2 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 326 (26.92%) SAP
2 182 (15.03%) Microsoft
3 92 (7.60%) Cisco
4 47 (3.88%) Nokia
5 35 (2.89%) BT
6 34 (2.81%) Juniper
7 31 (2.56%) Avaya
8 30 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.98%) Oracle
10 22 (1.82%) Ericsson
11 20 (1.65%) IBM
11 20 (1.65%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.65%) Red Hat
11 20 (1.65%) Sparx
12 18 (1.49%) Google
13 17 (1.40%) VMware
14 16 (1.32%) Salesforce
15 15 (1.24%) Huawei
16 12 (0.99%) Actix
16 12 (0.99%) Dell