Telecoms Contracts in Wales

Telecommunications
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 27 50 73
Rank change year-on-year +23 +23 -12
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 20 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.99% 1.74% 0.59%
As % of the General category 11.11% 3.62% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 3
10th Percentile - £159 £242
25th Percentile £358 £160 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £185 £420
Median % change year-on-year +97.30% -55.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £373 £219 £430
90th Percentile - £378 -
UK median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £14.31
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +61.54% +19.84%

All General Skills
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 Wales with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 180 304 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 44.89% 47.95% 55.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 216 431
10th Percentile £143 £164 £185
25th Percentile £200 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 24
10th Percentile £11.39 - £14.90
25th Percentile £11.88 £10.92 £19.98
Median hourly rate £22.68 £11.56 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +96.19% -51.33% +43.83%
75th Percentile £51.75 £29.84 £27.13
90th Percentile £86.40 £46.14 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £21.92
% change year-on-year -14.29% +59.71% -2.60%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in Wales

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in Wales

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in Wales

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales 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
South Wales +27 20 £365 +128.13% 18
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (30.00%) 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%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (85.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
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