Telecoms Contracts in the West Midlands

Telecommunications
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 46 96 54
Rank change year-on-year +50 -42 +20
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 64 43 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.32% 1.81% 3.97%
As % of the General category 5.87% 3.11% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 81
10th Percentile £325 £203 £225
25th Percentile £353 £288 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +50.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £775 £638 £750
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £13.75 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% - -
75th Percentile £14.00 £17.34 -
90th Percentile - £19.65 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% +22.15%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,090 1,384 1,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.62% 58.15% 56.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 972 1,508
10th Percentile £263 £228 £250
25th Percentile £395 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +7.37% +17.28%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 41 53
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.90 £12.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.59 £18.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.83% +5.88% +2.26%
75th Percentile £39.34 £27.13 £19.50
90th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £23.45
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the West Midlands

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the West Midlands

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the West Midlands

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the West Midlands

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +19 45 £415 -15.69% 26
Warwickshire +13 9 £750 - 9
Solihull -13 3 - - 8
Herefordshire - 3 £520 - 2
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (1.56%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.13%) Azure
2 1 (1.56%) Azure App Service
2 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.56%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
2 1 (1.56%) Serverless
2 1 (1.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.56%) WAN
2 13 (20.31%) MPLS
3 12 (18.75%) LAN
4 11 (17.19%) Internet
5 9 (14.06%) PBX
5 9 (14.06%) VoIP
5 9 (14.06%) VPN
5 9 (14.06%) WLAN
6 8 (12.50%) DHCP
6 8 (12.50%) DNS
7 7 (10.94%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (10.94%) Ethernet
8 6 (9.38%) 5G
8 6 (9.38%) Firewall
9 5 (7.81%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (7.81%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (7.81%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (7.81%) SD-WAN
9 5 (7.81%) Wireless
10 3 (4.69%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Git
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
1 1 (1.56%) Rational DOORS
General
1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Finance
3 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Law
5 2 (3.13%) Electronics
5 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.13%) Marketing
5 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Aeronautics
6 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) Analyst
2 10 (15.63%) Architect
3 7 (10.94%) Incident Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Senior
6 4 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Team Leader
7 3 (4.69%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Coordinator
7 3 (4.69%) Cyber Defence Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Network Support
7 3 (4.69%) Network Support Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.06%) Web Services
2 1 (1.56%) .NET
2 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.56%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.56%) Swagger
2 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Data Centre
2 10 (15.63%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.69%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (4.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (4.69%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.69%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.13%) IoT
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Handset
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) ITIL
2 19 (29.69%) Performance Management
3 17 (26.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (20.31%) Incident Management
4 13 (20.31%) Programme Management
5 11 (17.19%) Service Management
6 10 (15.63%) Network Architecture
6 10 (15.63%) Project Delivery
6 10 (15.63%) Project Management
7 9 (14.06%) Analytics
7 9 (14.06%) Architectural Design
7 9 (14.06%) Data Analytics
7 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
7 9 (14.06%) SOA
7 9 (14.06%) Storage Management
8 8 (12.50%) Agile
8 8 (12.50%) Change Management
8 8 (12.50%) ITSM
9 7 (10.94%) Customer Requirements
10 6 (9.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (14.06%) CCIE
2 9 (14.06%) CCIE Data Center
3 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.25%) BC Cleared
5 4 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.25%) CCNP
5 4 (6.25%) Degree
6 3 (4.69%) CCNA
7 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) SLA
2 3 (4.69%) NIST
2 3 (4.69%) NIST 800
2 3 (4.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) OpenView
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (25.00%) Cisco
2 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.94%) ServiceNow
4 5 (7.81%) CheckPoint
4 5 (7.81%) Infoblox
4 5 (7.81%) Palo Alto
4 5 (7.81%) Symantec
4 5 (7.81%) Zscaler
5 3 (4.69%) BT
5 3 (4.69%) Openreach
6 2 (3.13%) SAP
7 1 (1.56%) IBM
7 1 (1.56%) Juniper
7 1 (1.56%) Nokia