Telecoms Contracts in the South West

Telecommunications
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 38 30
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 215 178 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 6.79% 5.14% 6.44%
As % of the General category 13.32% 10.57% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 141 185
10th Percentile £158 £400 £309
25th Percentile £391 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £575 £484
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +18.80% +5.22%
75th Percentile £686 £675 £588
90th Percentile £788 £775 £683
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 8 1
10th Percentile - £68.25 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £77.81 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £91.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% +356.25% -10.79%
75th Percentile £85.00 £101.25 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £101.63 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £39.51
% change year-on-year +14.29% +32.88% +45.69%

All General Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,614 1,684 1,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 50.98% 48.61% 51.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 1,245 1,312
10th Percentile £215 £275 £243
25th Percentile £413 £415 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £591
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 112 139
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £23.63 £39.55 £15.90
Median hourly rate £46.39 £60.35 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +42.00% +1.61%
75th Percentile £70.66 £70.75 £55.92
90th Percentile £77.50 £86.66 £65.25
England median hourly rate £30.12 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.75% +50.23% -4.10%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the South West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in the South West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Bristol +22 122 £575 +2.22% 27
Wiltshire +5 67 £750 +20.00% 7
Devon -1 11 £165 -68.57% 4
Somerset +1 6 £600 +60.00% 9
Gloucestershire -6 4 £400 -36.00% 16
Cornwall - 2 £190 - 1
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (6.98%) SaaS
2 14 (6.51%) Azure
2 14 (6.51%) PaaS
3 11 (5.12%) AWS
4 7 (3.26%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.47%) GCP
6 1 (0.47%) IaaS
6 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.63%) PBX
2 24 (11.16%) VoIP
3 21 (9.77%) 4G
4 17 (7.91%) WAN
5 13 (6.05%) Wireless
6 12 (5.58%) 3GPP
6 12 (5.58%) LTE
6 12 (5.58%) Radio Access Network
6 12 (5.58%) Wireshark
7 10 (4.65%) SDH
8 7 (3.26%) 3G
8 7 (3.26%) Firewall
9 6 (2.79%) SD-WAN
10 5 (2.33%) LAN
11 4 (1.86%) Junos
12 3 (1.40%) VPN
13 2 (0.93%) FTP
13 2 (0.93%) Internet
13 2 (0.93%) RTP
13 2 (0.93%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (8.84%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.47%) Git
2 1 (0.47%) GitLab
2 1 (0.47%) GoCD
2 1 (0.47%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) NUnit
2 1 (0.47%) Postman
2 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 71 (33.02%) Public Sector
2 66 (30.70%) Finance
3 61 (28.37%) Electronics
3 61 (28.37%) Manufacturing
3 61 (28.37%) Marketing
4 44 (20.47%) Social Skills
5 11 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.19%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.26%) Digital Economy
9 7 (3.26%) Military
10 6 (2.79%) Police
11 5 (2.33%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.93%) Back Office
13 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (44.19%) Architect
2 48 (22.33%) Solutions Architect
3 39 (18.14%) Lead
4 31 (14.42%) Network Architect
5 29 (13.49%) Lead Architect
6 28 (13.02%) Systems Architect
7 12 (5.58%) Project Manager
8 11 (5.12%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.65%) Analyst
9 10 (4.65%) Field Engineer
9 10 (4.65%) Senior
10 9 (4.19%) Technical Architect
11 8 (3.72%) Technical Support
12 7 (3.26%) Change Manager
12 7 (3.26%) Network Engineer
13 6 (2.79%) Field Support Engineer
13 6 (2.79%) Support Specialist
13 6 (2.79%) Technical Engineer
13 6 (2.79%) Technical Specialist
13 6 (2.79%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.79%) XML
2 5 (2.33%) RESTful
3 2 (0.93%) .NET
3 2 (0.93%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.47%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.47%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.47%) Playwright
4 1 (0.47%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.02%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.05%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (5.12%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (5.12%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (5.12%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.65%) Blackberry
4 10 (4.65%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (4.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.33%) Verilog
6 5 (2.33%) VHDL
7 3 (1.40%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.93%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.93%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Replication
8 2 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.12%) Windows
2 5 (2.33%) Linux
3 3 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Solaris
4 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (28.37%) Business Intelligence
1 61 (28.37%) Digital Marketing
1 61 (28.37%) Programme Management
2 52 (24.19%) ITIL
3 30 (13.95%) Enterprise Architecture
4 29 (13.49%) Network Management
4 29 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (13.02%) Agile
6 26 (12.09%) ArchiMate
6 26 (12.09%) Systems Engineering
7 25 (11.63%) Project Management
8 22 (10.23%) Strategic Thinking
9 21 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (9.77%) TOGAF
10 20 (9.30%) Decision-Making
10 20 (9.30%) Roadmaps
11 17 (7.91%) Architecture Governance
11 17 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (7.91%) Presales
11 17 (7.91%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.65%) Python
2 5 (2.33%) C
2 5 (2.33%) C++
3 3 (1.40%) SQL
4 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.47%) Bash
5 1 (0.47%) Bicep
5 1 (0.47%) C#
5 1 (0.47%) Java
5 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 148 (68.84%) Security Cleared
2 105 (48.84%) SC Cleared
3 66 (30.70%) DV Cleared
4 47 (21.86%) Degree
5 13 (6.05%) HND
6 12 (5.58%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (5.12%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (4.65%) CCNP
9 6 (2.79%) CISSP
10 5 (2.33%) CESG Certified Professional
11 4 (1.86%) CLAS
11 4 (1.86%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.40%) CCNA
12 3 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.93%) HNC
13 2 (0.93%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 1 (0.47%) OSCP
14 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.05%) NIST
2 11 (5.12%) SLA
3 9 (4.19%) NIST 800
4 5 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.33%) JSP 440
4 5 (2.33%) RMADS
5 4 (1.86%) PMO
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 11 (5.12%) Docker
2 6 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.93%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.47%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.86%) SCCM
3 3 (1.40%) Terraform
4 2 (0.93%) Ansible
4 2 (0.93%) Puppet
4 2 (0.93%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.47%) Grafana
5 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 61 (28.37%) SAP
2 34 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.81%) Nokia
3 26 (12.09%) Cisco
4 22 (10.23%) Ericsson
4 22 (10.23%) Juniper
5 19 (8.84%) IBM
6 12 (5.58%) Actix
6 12 (5.58%) Huawei
7 10 (4.65%) Avaya
7 10 (4.65%) Ribbon
8 9 (4.19%) BT
8 9 (4.19%) Google
9 8 (3.72%) VMware
10 7 (3.26%) BMC
10 7 (3.26%) Palo Alto
10 7 (3.26%) Remedy
11 4 (1.86%) Ciena
12 3 (1.40%) BiZZdesign
13 2 (0.93%) Hyperion