Telecoms Contracts with Work from Home Options

Telecommunications
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 77 88
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -15
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 451 735 1,300
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.99% 2.93% 2.94%
As % of the General category 5.08% 5.01% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 487 903
10th Percentile £256 £300 £328
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -7.60% -2.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 30 10
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.40 £20.31
25th Percentile £35.00 £47.50 £21.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +150.00% -24.72%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £29.88
90th Percentile £74.00 £90.75 £51.64
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +40.00% +40.06%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,875 14,682 24,035
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.79% 58.44% 54.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,816 10,345 17,442
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 336 345
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.99 £19.35
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +53.85% +38.52%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £64.90
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%

Telecoms
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Telecoms trend for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Telecoms.

Telecoms daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Telecoms daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Telecoms.

Telecoms hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Telecoms hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (1.77%) SAS
1 8 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.55%) Confluence
3 6 (1.33%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.67%) Apache
5 2 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.55%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.22%) Maya
6 1 (0.22%) Revit
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.11%) SmartPlant
2 3 (0.67%) SAP BRIM
2 3 (0.67%) SAP Hybris
2 3 (0.67%) SAP PSCD
3 2 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.44%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.22%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 42 (9.31%) Azure
2 35 (7.76%) AWS
3 18 (3.99%) GCP
4 17 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (2.88%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (2.00%) PaaS
7 6 (1.33%) IaaS
7 6 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.89%) OCI
8 4 (0.89%) Serverless
8 4 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (0.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 3 (0.67%) Twilio
10 2 (0.44%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (0.44%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.44%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.44%) SaaS
10 2 (0.44%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.66%) WAN
2 18 (3.99%) 4G
3 16 (3.55%) MPLS
4 15 (3.33%) Firewall
5 14 (3.10%) 5G
5 14 (3.10%) SD-WAN
5 14 (3.10%) VoIP
5 14 (3.10%) VPN
6 13 (2.88%) Wireless
7 11 (2.44%) 3G
7 11 (2.44%) Internet
7 11 (2.44%) LAN
7 11 (2.44%) Radio Access Network
8 10 (2.22%) Ethernet
8 10 (2.22%) Network Security
9 9 (2.00%) BGP
9 9 (2.00%) SDH
10 8 (1.77%) LTE
11 7 (1.55%) Broadband
11 7 (1.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.88%) Power BI
2 12 (2.66%) Metadata
3 11 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.00%) Tableau
5 6 (1.33%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (1.33%) Ingres
5 6 (1.33%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (1.33%) QlikView
6 4 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.44%) Big Data
8 2 (0.44%) GIS
8 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (3.33%) Git
1 15 (3.33%) JIRA
2 11 (2.44%) ERwin
3 6 (1.33%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.11%) Postman
4 5 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.89%) Subversion
6 3 (0.67%) NUnit
6 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.22%) Appium
7 1 (0.22%) GitLab
7 1 (0.22%) JMeter
General
1 165 (36.59%) Finance
2 109 (24.17%) Marketing
3 106 (23.50%) Public Sector
4 105 (23.28%) Social Skills
5 102 (22.62%) Electronics
6 101 (22.39%) Manufacturing
7 39 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (4.43%) Legal
10 19 (4.21%) Banking
11 14 (3.10%) Retail
12 10 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.77%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.77%) Billing
14 6 (1.33%) Police
15 5 (1.11%) French Language
15 5 (1.11%) German Language
16 4 (0.89%) Aeronautics
17 3 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 98 (21.73%) Architect
2 45 (9.98%) Lead
3 43 (9.53%) Analyst
4 36 (7.98%) Developer
5 31 (6.87%) Project Manager
6 30 (6.65%) Network Architect
7 28 (6.21%) Consultant
7 28 (6.21%) Lead Architect
7 28 (6.21%) Senior
8 27 (5.99%) Telecoms Manager
9 25 (5.54%) Systems Architect
10 21 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.77%) Enterprise Architect
11 17 (3.77%) Support Engineer
12 16 (3.55%) IT Architect
12 16 (3.55%) Network Engineer
13 13 (2.88%) Data Architect
14 12 (2.66%) Software Engineer
14 12 (2.66%) Technical Support
15 11 (2.44%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.10%) AngularJS
1 14 (3.10%) RESTful
2 11 (2.44%) .NET
3 9 (2.00%) Web Services
4 8 (1.77%) CSS
4 8 (1.77%) JSON
5 7 (1.55%) HTML
5 7 (1.55%) Kafka
5 7 (1.55%) XML
6 6 (1.33%) REST
7 5 (1.11%) GraphQL
7 5 (1.11%) Middleware
8 4 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.89%) YANG
9 3 (0.67%) Django
9 3 (0.67%) Playwright
9 3 (0.67%) SOAP
9 3 (0.67%) Swagger
9 3 (0.67%) YAML
10 2 (0.44%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (2.44%) Wiki
4 10 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.77%) IVR
6 8 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.77%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.33%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.11%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.11%) NHS
9 4 (0.89%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.89%) Device Driver
10 3 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
10 3 (0.67%) IoT
10 3 (0.67%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.67%) Verilog
10 3 (0.67%) VHDL
11 2 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.21%) Linux
2 21 (4.66%) Windows
3 6 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.89%) Unix
4 4 (0.89%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.67%) CentOS
6 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.22%) Android
7 1 (0.22%) Debian
7 1 (0.22%) VMS
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (26.16%) Business Intelligence
2 107 (23.73%) Programme Management
3 99 (21.95%) Digital Marketing
4 53 (11.75%) Agile
5 51 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (9.53%) Project Management
7 40 (8.87%) ITIL
8 37 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (7.10%) Change Management
9 32 (7.10%) DevOps
10 29 (6.43%) Network Management
10 29 (6.43%) Roadmaps
11 25 (5.54%) Project Delivery
12 23 (5.10%) Strategic Thinking
12 23 (5.10%) Systems Engineering
13 22 (4.88%) Migration
14 20 (4.43%) Analytics
15 19 (4.21%) Risk Management
15 19 (4.21%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (5.76%) Python
1 26 (5.76%) SQL
2 16 (3.55%) JavaScript
3 13 (2.88%) Java
4 11 (2.44%) C
4 11 (2.44%) C++
5 8 (1.77%) C#
5 8 (1.77%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.33%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.11%) Bash
7 5 (1.11%) MATLAB
7 5 (1.11%) PHP
8 4 (0.89%) Assembly Language
8 4 (0.89%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.22%) Perl
10 1 (0.22%) Solidity
10 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 94 (20.84%) Security Cleared
2 79 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 66 (14.63%) Degree
4 25 (5.54%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (3.10%) CCNP
7 11 (2.44%) Master's Degree
8 10 (2.22%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.77%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.77%) BC Cleared
10 6 (1.33%) HND
11 5 (1.11%) CCIE
11 5 (1.11%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.89%) CCNA
12 4 (0.89%) CIPD
12 4 (0.89%) ICAEW
12 4 (0.89%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.10%) QA
2 18 (3.99%) SLA
3 16 (3.55%) GDPR
4 14 (3.10%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.77%) PMO
6 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.89%) GAAP
6 4 (0.89%) IFRS
6 4 (0.89%) JTAG
7 2 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (4.21%) Docker
2 11 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.33%) Firmware
4 4 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.44%) Terraform
3 5 (1.11%) Ansible
4 3 (0.67%) Nagios
5 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.44%) Grafana
5 2 (0.44%) OpenView
5 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.44%) Puppet
5 2 (0.44%) SCCM
6 1 (0.22%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.22%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.22%) Icinga
6 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 108 (23.95%) SAP
2 42 (9.31%) Microsoft
3 37 (8.20%) Cisco
4 29 (6.43%) BT
5 12 (2.66%) Sparx
6 10 (2.22%) Nokia
6 10 (2.22%) Oracle
6 10 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.00%) Juniper
8 8 (1.77%) Genesys
9 7 (1.55%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.33%) Avaya
10 6 (1.33%) Google
10 6 (1.33%) IFS
10 6 (1.33%) VMware
11 5 (1.11%) IBM
11 5 (1.11%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.89%) Ciena
12 4 (0.89%) Computacenter
12 4 (0.89%) Splunk