Telecoms Contracts in the Midlands

Telecommunications
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 100 68
Rank change year-on-year +43 -32 +17
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 82 67 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.98% 1.95% 3.28%
As % of the General category 5.43% 3.49% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 40 95
10th Percentile £174 £199 £185
25th Percentile £325 £227 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £325 £496
Median % change year-on-year +35.92% -34.41% +41.57%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £775 £606 £740
England median daily rate £450 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile £12.28 - £20.13
25th Percentile £12.75 £12.50 £20.31
Median hourly rate £13.50 £20.71 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.80% -2.56% +34.92%
75th Percentile £14.25 £21.19 £22.81
90th Percentile - £21.48 £23.38
England median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +40.00% +22.15%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,509 1,922 2,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 54.85% 55.82% 54.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,031 1,360 2,052
10th Percentile £206 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £468
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.67% +16.88%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £550
90th Percentile £738 £688 £653
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 83 103
10th Percentile £11.75 £11.80 £9.74
25th Percentile £13.90 £13.31 £12.63
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.32 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +14.80% +10.63%
75th Percentile £38.13 £32.13 £24.88
90th Percentile £53.80 £51.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £33.91 £21.50
% change year-on-year -11.53% +57.72% -4.44%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the Midlands

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the Midlands

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the Midlands

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the Midlands

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
West Midlands +49 64 £450 - 67
East Midlands +16 15 £275 +15.79% 29
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (1.22%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (6.10%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.88%) Azure
2 1 (1.22%) Azure App Service
2 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.22%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (1.22%) Azure Functions
2 1 (1.22%) OCI
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Service Cloud
2 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.22%) Serverless
2 1 (1.22%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.17%) WAN
2 14 (17.07%) LAN
3 13 (15.85%) Internet
3 13 (15.85%) MPLS
3 13 (15.85%) VPN
4 12 (14.63%) Wireless
5 10 (12.20%) DHCP
5 10 (12.20%) DNS
5 10 (12.20%) PBX
6 9 (10.98%) Cisco Nexus
6 9 (10.98%) Ethernet
6 9 (10.98%) VoIP
6 9 (10.98%) WLAN
7 6 (7.32%) 5G
7 6 (7.32%) Firewall
8 5 (6.10%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (6.10%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (6.10%) Ethereal
8 5 (6.10%) SD-WAN
8 5 (6.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.22%) Power BI
1 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Git
1 1 (1.22%) JIRA
1 1 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 35 (42.68%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.51%) Finance
3 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.54%) Electronics
5 7 (8.54%) Manufacturing
5 7 (8.54%) Marketing
6 3 (3.66%) Law
7 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Aeronautics
8 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) Analyst
2 10 (12.20%) Architect
3 7 (8.54%) Incident Analyst
3 7 (8.54%) Network Engineer
3 7 (8.54%) Project Manager
4 6 (7.32%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (6.10%) Lead
5 5 (6.10%) Network Support
5 5 (6.10%) Network Support Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) Senior
5 5 (6.10%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Team Leader
7 3 (3.66%) Cyber Defence Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) Data Centre Manager
7 3 (3.66%) Data Centre Project Manager
7 3 (3.66%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (3.66%) Network Architect
7 3 (3.66%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) Web Services
2 1 (1.22%) .NET
2 1 (1.22%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.22%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.22%) Swagger
2 1 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.73%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.20%) Operational Technology
3 5 (6.10%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.66%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (3.66%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.66%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.44%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.44%) IoT
5 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.22%) BYOD
6 1 (1.22%) Handset
6 1 (1.22%) iPad
6 1 (1.22%) iPhone
6 1 (1.22%) PDA
6 1 (1.22%) PKI
6 1 (1.22%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Windows
1 6 (7.32%) Windows 7
2 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (1.22%) Windows Vista
2 1 (1.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.39%) ITIL
1 20 (24.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (23.17%) Performance Management
3 18 (21.95%) Programme Management
4 13 (15.85%) Incident Management
5 11 (13.41%) Customer Requirements
5 11 (13.41%) Service Management
6 10 (12.20%) Analytics
6 10 (12.20%) Customer Service
6 10 (12.20%) Network Architecture
6 10 (12.20%) Project Delivery
6 10 (12.20%) Project Management
7 9 (10.98%) Architectural Design
7 9 (10.98%) Data Analytics
7 9 (10.98%) ITSM
7 9 (10.98%) Mentoring
7 9 (10.98%) SOA
7 9 (10.98%) Storage Management
8 8 (9.76%) Agile
8 8 (9.76%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.98%) CCIE
3 9 (10.98%) CCIE Data Center
4 7 (8.54%) Degree
5 5 (6.10%) CCNA
6 4 (4.88%) BC Cleared
6 4 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.88%) CCNP
7 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) SLA
2 3 (3.66%) NIST
2 3 (3.66%) NIST 800
2 3 (3.66%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (6.10%) OpenView
2 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (23.17%) Cisco
2 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.54%) SAP
3 7 (8.54%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.10%) CheckPoint
4 5 (6.10%) Infoblox
4 5 (6.10%) Openreach
4 5 (6.10%) Palo Alto
4 5 (6.10%) Symantec
4 5 (6.10%) Zscaler
5 4 (4.88%) Computacenter
6 3 (3.66%) BT
7 2 (2.44%) Virgin Media
8 1 (1.22%) Brocade
8 1 (1.22%) Dell
8 1 (1.22%) HP
8 1 (1.22%) IBM
8 1 (1.22%) Intel
8 1 (1.22%) Juniper
8 1 (1.22%) Remedy