Telecoms Contracts in South Wales

Telecommunications
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 45 70
Rank change year-on-year +23 +25 -15
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 20 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 5.73% 2.07% 0.66%
As % of the General category 13.25% 4.21% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 3
10th Percentile - £150 £178
25th Percentile £358 £153 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £160 £420
Median % change year-on-year +128.13% -61.90% -
75th Percentile £373 £201 £430
90th Percentile - £378 -
Wales median daily rate £365 £160 £310
% change year-on-year +128.13% -48.39% -38.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £14.31
Wales median hourly rate - - £14.31
% change year-on-year - - -26.62%

All General Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 151 261 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 43.27% 49.15% 56.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 189 397
10th Percentile £143 £164 £200
25th Percentile £200 £313 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £565
90th Percentile £625 £626 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 23
10th Percentile £11.02 - £14.70
25th Percentile £12.78 £10.92 £20.08
Median hourly rate £23.93 £11.56 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.01% -53.76% +46.95%
75th Percentile £62.19 £16.82 £27.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £43.51 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £12.39 £25.00
% change year-on-year +83.09% -50.45% +52.11%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in South Wales

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in South Wales

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in South Wales

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 19 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
Newport +19 19 £365 +73.81% 8
Cardiff +3 1 - - 2
Telecoms
Wales

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) PBX
1 2 (10.00%) VoIP
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) SAN
General
1 17 (85.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (65.00%) Mandarin Language
3 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 17 (85.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Project Delivery
1 17 (85.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (10.00%) Presales
2 2 (10.00%) Value Proposition
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (85.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) VMware