Telecoms Contracts in Scotland

Telecommunications
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 101 129 118
Rank change year-on-year +28 -11 +1
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 30 35 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.36% 1.23% 1.39%
As % of the General category 2.09% 1.86% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 43
10th Percentile £213 £149 £230
25th Percentile £306 £313 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -5.61% +40.00%
75th Percentile £588 £541 £650
90th Percentile - £575 £740
UK median daily rate £450 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £21.30 -
25th Percentile - £21.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate - £21.47 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.43% +12.82%
75th Percentile - £21.57 £23.00
90th Percentile - £21.63 -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +61.54% +19.84%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,432 1,878 2,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.88% 65.80% 71.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,386 1,835
10th Percentile £181 £232 £219
25th Percentile £362 £405 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 29 41
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -17.64% -9.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.50 £53.75
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in Scotland

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in Scotland

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Scotland

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in Scotland

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +6 15 £470 +44.62% 7
West Lothian -4 5 £518 -1.43% 2
Edinburgh +41 3 £588 -6.00% 13
Fife - 2 £365 -
Perthshire - 2 £500 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £275 - 4
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) FileNet
2 1 (3.33%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) 5G
2 2 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (6.67%) SNMP
3 1 (3.33%) 3G
3 1 (3.33%) 4G
3 1 (3.33%) BGP
3 1 (3.33%) Broadband
3 1 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (3.33%) GPRS
3 1 (3.33%) LAN
3 1 (3.33%) LTE
3 1 (3.33%) MPLS
3 1 (3.33%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (3.33%) SDH
3 1 (3.33%) VPLS
3 1 (3.33%) VPN
3 1 (3.33%) VSAT
3 1 (3.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (6.67%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Maven
3 2 (6.67%) Capybara
3 2 (6.67%) Gradle
4 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 12 (40.00%) Finance
2 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Electronics
4 5 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 5 (16.67%) Marketing
4 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.00%) Banking
6 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) Product Manager
1 4 (13.33%) Project Manager
1 4 (13.33%) Telecoms Manager
2 3 (10.00%) Telecoms Project Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Agile Project Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Cabling Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Coordinator
3 2 (6.67%) Data Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Fraud Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Fraud Data Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Installations Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Lead
3 2 (6.67%) Senior
3 2 (6.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (3.33%) Broadcast Project Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Data Designer
4 1 (3.33%) Radio Planner
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) React
1 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.67%) JSON
2 2 (6.67%) WebKit
3 1 (3.33%) Java EE
3 1 (3.33%) NETCONF
3 1 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) Spring
3 1 (3.33%) Spring Batch
3 1 (3.33%) Web Services
3 1 (3.33%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) SCADA
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) Project Management
3 7 (23.33%) Customer Experience
4 6 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 6 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 5 (16.67%) Business Case
5 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 4 (13.33%) Backlog Management
6 4 (13.33%) DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) Epics
6 4 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (13.33%) Product Backlog
6 4 (13.33%) Product Management
6 4 (13.33%) Service Design
6 4 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (13.33%) User Research
6 4 (13.33%) User Stories
7 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) Ruby
5 1 (3.33%) PHP
5 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
1 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.67%) Nagios
1 2 (6.67%) OpenView
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Avamar
2 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.33%) Kibana
2 1 (3.33%) logstash
2 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) SAP
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) Alteryx
3 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle
3 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.33%) AlienVault
4 1 (3.33%) F5
4 1 (3.33%) Genesys
4 1 (3.33%) KANA
4 1 (3.33%) Nokia