Telecoms Contracts in the UK excluding London

Telecommunications
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 58 54
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 798 852 1,257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.92% 3.72% 4.14%
As % of the General category 7.22% 6.59% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 527 745
10th Percentile £180 £205 £185
25th Percentile £300 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 31 15
10th Percentile £12.15 £17.38 £16.02
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.22 £19.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +138.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £76.88 £53.68
90th Percentile £78.25 £101.25 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +72.13% +22.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,059 12,919 16,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.30% 56.39% 55.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,314 8,777 11,669
10th Percentile £208 £231 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,667 738 1,040
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.66 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.60 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +43.40% -1.29%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.41 £37.11
90th Percentile £66.84 £68.75 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +1.26%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East -4 338 £425 +3.03% 192
South West +17 207 £600 +4.35% 75
North of England +30 83 £345 -25.41% 118
Midlands +36 66 £500 +33.33% 82
East of England +15 58 £375 -20.00% 62
West Midlands +25 49 £550 +13.52% 44
Yorkshire +38 43 £450 -10.00% 25
North West +5 33 £305 -32.22% 71
Scotland +37 26 £475 +5.56% 25
Wales +37 23 £365 +71.76% 17
East Midlands +11 14 £388 +63.16% 38
Northern Ireland +1 8 £600 +97.69% 9
North East +13 7 £493 +38.73% 23
Channel Islands - 3 £575 -
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 14 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.25%) SAS
3 8 (1.00%) Confluence
4 6 (0.75%) Apache
5 5 (0.63%) IIS
5 5 (0.63%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.38%) CMS
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.38%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.13%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) MTS
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 65 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.25%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.38%) SPSS
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.25%) Maya
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.63%) SmartPlant
3 4 (0.50%) SAP BRIM
3 4 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
3 4 (0.50%) SAP PSCD
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 30 (3.76%) Azure
2 21 (2.63%) Power Platform
3 19 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (2.26%) AWS
5 17 (2.13%) SaaS
6 15 (1.88%) PaaS
7 8 (1.00%) Snowflake
8 5 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (0.63%) Serverless
9 4 (0.50%) Azure Functions
9 4 (0.50%) GCP
9 4 (0.50%) IaaS
9 4 (0.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 3 (0.38%) Google Sheets
10 3 (0.38%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.25%) ChatGPT
12 1 (0.13%) OCI
12 1 (0.13%) Smartsheet
12 1 (0.13%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.77%) 5G
2 46 (5.76%) Radio Access Network
3 43 (5.39%) WAN
4 41 (5.14%) PBX
5 40 (5.01%) 4G
6 39 (4.89%) VoIP
6 39 (4.89%) Wireless
7 33 (4.14%) Firewall
8 30 (3.76%) LTE
9 28 (3.51%) Wireshark
10 26 (3.26%) LAN
11 24 (3.01%) MPLS
11 24 (3.01%) VPN
12 21 (2.63%) 3G
12 21 (2.63%) DNS
13 20 (2.51%) Internet
14 16 (2.01%) SDH
15 12 (1.50%) 3GPP
15 12 (1.50%) Ethernet
15 12 (1.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.75%) Power BI
1 14 (1.75%) Tableau
2 9 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
3 8 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (0.88%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.75%) Ingres
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.50%) GIS
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (0.50%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.38%) Big Data
8 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.25%) MySQL
9 2 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.25%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (3.63%) JIRA
2 21 (2.63%) Rational DOORS
3 10 (1.25%) Git
4 8 (1.00%) Subversion
5 6 (0.75%) Gradle
6 4 (0.50%) gcov
6 4 (0.50%) GDB
7 3 (0.38%) Maven
8 2 (0.25%) Capybara
8 2 (0.25%) GitLab
8 2 (0.25%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.13%) Gerrit
9 1 (0.13%) GoCD
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) Selenium
9 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 214 (26.82%) Finance
2 210 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 148 (18.55%) Public Sector
4 147 (18.42%) Marketing
5 133 (16.67%) Manufacturing
6 131 (16.42%) Electronics
7 57 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (4.01%) Legal
9 30 (3.76%) Mandarin Language
10 29 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.76%) Retail
13 18 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (2.01%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.50%) Multimedia
16 11 (1.38%) Law
17 9 (1.13%) Billing
18 8 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.88%) Aeronautics
19 7 (0.88%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 128 (16.04%) Architect
2 75 (9.40%) Analyst
3 70 (8.77%) Lead
4 68 (8.52%) Solutions Architect
5 46 (5.76%) Project Manager
6 42 (5.26%) Support Engineer
7 40 (5.01%) Senior
8 37 (4.64%) Network Architect
8 37 (4.64%) Telecoms Manager
9 33 (4.14%) Network Engineer
10 32 (4.01%) Lead Architect
11 29 (3.63%) Consultant
12 27 (3.38%) Developer
13 26 (3.26%) Systems Architect
14 20 (2.51%) Coordinator
15 18 (2.26%) Desktop Engineer
16 17 (2.13%) Desktop Support
16 17 (2.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 16 (2.01%) Data Analyst
18 15 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.01%) XML
2 11 (1.38%) Web Services
3 8 (1.00%) HTML
3 8 (1.00%) RESTful
4 7 (0.88%) CSS
4 7 (0.88%) React
4 7 (0.88%) REST
5 5 (0.63%) AngularJS
5 5 (0.63%) JSON
6 4 (0.50%) Django
7 3 (0.38%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.38%) D3.js
7 3 (0.38%) Node.js
7 3 (0.38%) React Native
7 3 (0.38%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.38%) YANG
8 2 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.25%) Playwright
8 2 (0.25%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.27%) Data Centre
2 36 (4.51%) NHS
3 34 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 33 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
6 24 (3.01%) Driving Licence
7 19 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
8 14 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
10 10 (1.25%) Blackberry
10 10 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 9 (1.13%) Fibre Optics
12 8 (1.00%) LIMS
13 7 (0.88%) Operational Technology
13 7 (0.88%) SCADA
14 6 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.75%) IVR
15 5 (0.63%) Verilog
15 5 (0.63%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 64 (8.02%) Windows
2 40 (5.01%) Linux
3 20 (2.51%) Windows 10
4 14 (1.75%) Unix
5 10 (1.25%) Windows 7
6 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.38%) Windows 8
8 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.25%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.13%) Android
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (18.30%) Programme Management
2 142 (17.79%) Business Intelligence
3 130 (16.29%) Digital Marketing
4 85 (10.65%) ITIL
5 78 (9.77%) Project Management
6 75 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (9.15%) Agile
8 65 (8.15%) Project Delivery
9 61 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 54 (6.77%) Roadmaps
12 45 (5.64%) Customer Service
13 41 (5.14%) Customer Experience
14 39 (4.89%) Computer Science
14 39 (4.89%) Decision-Making
15 38 (4.76%) Change Management
16 37 (4.64%) Root Cause Analysis
17 35 (4.39%) Data Protection
18 34 (4.26%) Mentoring
19 33 (4.14%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 38 (4.76%) Python
2 30 (3.76%) SQL
3 19 (2.38%) JavaScript
4 18 (2.26%) C
4 18 (2.26%) C++
5 13 (1.63%) Java
6 6 (0.75%) C#
7 5 (0.63%) Bash
7 5 (0.63%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.63%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.50%) Assembly Language
8 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.38%) R
10 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.25%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.25%) Ruby
10 2 (0.25%) Swift
10 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.13%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 192 (24.06%) Security Cleared
2 138 (17.29%) Degree
3 136 (17.04%) SC Cleared
4 76 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 34 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (2.51%) CCNP
7 15 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.63%) HND
9 12 (1.50%) CCNA
9 12 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.13%) CCIE
10 9 (1.13%) CCIE Data Center
10 9 (1.13%) CISSP
10 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.75%) CIPD
11 6 (0.75%) PhD
11 6 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.63%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.39%) SLA
2 35 (4.39%) QA
3 18 (2.26%) NIST
4 14 (1.75%) PMO
5 12 (1.50%) GDPR
6 10 (1.25%) NIST 800
7 9 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.00%) HL7
9 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.63%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.63%) RMADS
11 4 (0.50%) GAAP
11 4 (0.50%) IFRS
11 4 (0.50%) JTAG
12 3 (0.38%) COBIT
13 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.25%) ITGC
13 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (1.63%) Docker
2 12 (1.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (0.50%) Firmware
4 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) NFS
6 1 (0.13%) QEMU
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (1.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.88%) OpenView
3 6 (0.75%) Ansible
3 6 (0.75%) SCCM
4 3 (0.38%) Terraform
5 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.25%) Nagios
5 2 (0.25%) Nessus
5 2 (0.25%) Puppet
5 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.13%) Grafana
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.13%) SCOM
6 1 (0.13%) vRealize
6 1 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 136 (17.04%) SAP
2 104 (13.03%) Microsoft
3 68 (8.52%) Cisco
4 39 (4.89%) Nokia
5 36 (4.51%) Juniper
6 32 (4.01%) BT
7 25 (3.13%) Ericsson
8 21 (2.63%) IBM
9 19 (2.38%) Palo Alto
10 16 (2.01%) VMware
11 15 (1.88%) Avaya
12 14 (1.75%) Google
13 13 (1.63%) Oracle
14 12 (1.50%) Actix
14 12 (1.50%) Huawei
14 12 (1.50%) Ribbon
15 11 (1.38%) Salesforce
16 10 (1.25%) IFS
17 9 (1.13%) Remedy
18 8 (1.00%) CheckPoint