Telecoms Contracts in London

Telecommunications
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in London. 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 126 132 125
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -16
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 340 550 917
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.92% 2.03% 2.36%
As % of the General category 3.04% 3.20% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 392 680
10th Percentile £276 £350 £360
25th Percentile £400 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £806 £750 £725
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 17
10th Percentile £24.05 £20.00 £25.95
25th Percentile £27.25 £20.22 £26.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +120.00% -33.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.38 £61.45
90th Percentile £66.70 £67.50 £64.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% +22.15%

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,194 17,186 23,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.21% 63.47% 59.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,991 12,426 16,753
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £801 £825 £794
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 225 296
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.69 £19.89
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -9.72% +30.91%
75th Percentile £43.75 £58.75 £49.38
90th Percentile £65.45 £70.00 £64.56
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in London.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in London.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the London 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
Central London +21 43 £450 -30.77% 23
West London +3 15 £338 -30.77% 13
East London -7 3 £350 +55.56% 15
South London - 3 £425 - 4
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 24 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.53%) OpenStack
3 9 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.76%) Apache
5 4 (1.18%) nginx
6 3 (0.88%) Confluence
7 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.29%) Appian
8 1 (0.29%) IIS
8 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.76%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.29%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (2.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.29%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 41 (12.06%) AWS
2 38 (11.18%) Azure
3 24 (7.06%) PaaS
4 22 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (3.82%) GCP
6 10 (2.94%) IaaS
7 9 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.65%) Power Platform
8 8 (2.35%) SaaS
9 6 (1.76%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.76%) GitHub
10 5 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.18%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.18%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.29%) DNS
2 15 (4.41%) Firewall
2 15 (4.41%) TCP/IP
3 13 (3.82%) BGP
3 13 (3.82%) WAN
4 12 (3.53%) VoIP
5 10 (2.94%) 5G
5 10 (2.94%) MPLS
6 9 (2.65%) Broadband
6 9 (2.65%) DHCP
6 9 (2.65%) Internet
6 9 (2.65%) LAN
6 9 (2.65%) VPN
6 9 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (2.35%) HTTP
8 7 (2.06%) 4G
8 7 (2.06%) OSPF
9 6 (1.76%) IP Telephony
9 6 (1.76%) Radio Access Network
10 5 (1.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.82%) NoSQL
2 26 (7.65%) Metadata
3 20 (5.88%) Data Vault
4 14 (4.12%) Metadata Repository
5 13 (3.82%) Qlik Sense
5 13 (3.82%) QlikView
6 12 (3.53%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.65%) Power BI
9 6 (1.76%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.76%) Pentaho
9 6 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.47%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.47%) GIS
11 4 (1.18%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.88%) Big Data
12 3 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (3.82%) Git
2 10 (2.94%) JIRA
3 9 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.76%) ERwin
5 4 (1.18%) Postman
6 3 (0.88%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.88%) GitLab
7 2 (0.59%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.59%) NUnit
7 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.29%) Appium
8 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.29%) JMeter
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 152 (44.71%) Finance
2 124 (36.47%) Marketing
3 123 (36.18%) Public Sector
4 117 (34.41%) Electronics
5 115 (33.82%) Manufacturing
6 89 (26.18%) Social Skills
7 29 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (6.47%) Legal
9 16 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.94%) Retail
11 7 (2.06%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.76%) Publishing
13 5 (1.47%) Billing
14 3 (0.88%) Military
15 2 (0.59%) Banking
15 2 (0.59%) French Language
15 2 (0.59%) German Language
15 2 (0.59%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 44 (12.94%) Architect
2 29 (8.53%) Analyst
2 29 (8.53%) Data Architect
2 29 (8.53%) Developer
3 27 (7.94%) Senior
4 25 (7.35%) Project Manager
5 22 (6.47%) Network Engineer
6 20 (5.88%) Consultant
7 15 (4.41%) Chief Architect
7 15 (4.41%) Chief Data Architect
8 12 (3.53%) Lead
9 11 (3.24%) Telecoms Manager
10 9 (2.65%) Business Analyst
10 9 (2.65%) Enterprise Architect
10 9 (2.65%) ServiceNow Developer
10 9 (2.65%) Support Engineer
11 8 (2.35%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 8 (2.35%) ITSM Developer
12 7 (2.06%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.94%) JSON
1 10 (2.94%) LDAP
2 9 (2.65%) .NET
2 9 (2.65%) Kafka
3 7 (2.06%) AngularJS
4 6 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (1.76%) REST
4 6 (1.76%) Web Services
5 5 (1.47%) CSS
5 5 (1.47%) Node.js
5 5 (1.47%) XML
6 4 (1.18%) HTML
6 4 (1.18%) LAPP Stack
6 4 (1.18%) YANG
7 3 (0.88%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.88%) NETCONF
7 3 (0.88%) RESTful
7 3 (0.88%) SOAP
8 2 (0.59%) Apache Avro
8 2 (0.59%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.18%) Onboarding
2 20 (5.88%) Reference Data
3 15 (4.41%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.53%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (2.94%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.06%) CCTV
8 6 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.76%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.76%) Wiki
9 5 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.47%) Replication
10 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.18%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.18%) Clustering
10 4 (1.18%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.18%) Social Media
11 3 (0.88%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.41%) Linux
2 28 (8.24%) Windows
3 8 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.76%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.47%) CentOS
5 5 (1.47%) Unix
5 5 (1.47%) VMS
6 4 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.29%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (36.47%) Business Intelligence
2 121 (35.59%) Programme Management
3 115 (33.82%) Digital Marketing
4 45 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (11.47%) Agile
6 37 (10.88%) Project Management
7 29 (8.53%) Data Modelling
8 28 (8.24%) Data Architecture
8 28 (8.24%) DevOps
9 24 (7.06%) Data Strategy
10 23 (6.76%) CI/CD
10 23 (6.76%) Data Integration
11 22 (6.47%) Data Governance
12 21 (6.18%) UML
13 20 (5.88%) Project Delivery
13 20 (5.88%) Roadmaps
13 20 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (5.59%) Business Strategy
15 18 (5.29%) ITSM
15 18 (5.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.65%) Python
1 26 (7.65%) SQL
2 12 (3.53%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.65%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.35%) Go
4 8 (2.35%) Java
5 7 (2.06%) Bash
5 7 (2.06%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.76%) C#
7 5 (1.47%) C
8 2 (0.59%) PHP
8 2 (0.59%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.59%) U-SQL
9 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.29%) Perl
9 1 (0.29%) Scala
9 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.29%) Solidity
9 1 (0.29%) tcsh
9 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (12.35%) Degree
3 41 (12.06%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.18%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (3.24%) CCNA
6 11 (3.24%) CCNP
7 7 (2.06%) PMP
8 5 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.47%) CISSP
8 5 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.47%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.18%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.88%) APMG
10 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.59%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.59%) CCDP
11 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.53%) PMO
2 9 (2.65%) GDPR
3 8 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.76%) QA
4 6 (1.76%) SLA
5 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.59%) GRC
5 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.59%) NIST
5 2 (0.59%) WCAG
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.12%) Docker
3 9 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.06%) NFS
5 4 (1.18%) HDFS
6 3 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.29%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.82%) Terraform
3 12 (3.53%) Ansible
4 8 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.76%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.18%) Grafana
6 4 (1.18%) ZABBIX
7 3 (0.88%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.88%) Puppet
8 2 (0.59%) Ambari
8 2 (0.59%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.59%) Oozie
9 1 (0.29%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.29%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.29%) Nagios
9 1 (0.29%) Packer
9 1 (0.29%) SCCM
9 1 (0.29%) SCOM
9 1 (0.29%) systemd
Vendors
1 118 (34.71%) SAP
2 60 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.18%) Cisco
3 21 (6.18%) ServiceNow
4 15 (4.41%) Sparx
5 11 (3.24%) Oracle
6 8 (2.35%) Nokia
7 7 (2.06%) Informatica
8 6 (1.76%) BT
8 6 (1.76%) Dell
9 5 (1.47%) Avaya
9 5 (1.47%) Google
9 5 (1.47%) Huawei
10 4 (1.18%) ESRI
10 4 (1.18%) Isilon
10 4 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.18%) VMware
11 3 (0.88%) F5
11 3 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.88%) Juniper