Telecoms Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Telecommunications
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 38 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 2 8 20
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.57% 2.45% 4.25%
As % of the General category 1.10% 4.40% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £363 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £388 £440
Median % change year-on-year - -11.93% -12.00%
75th Percentile - £405 £445
90th Percentile - £428 -
East of England median daily rate £160 £388 £400
% change year-on-year -58.71% -3.13% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.50 £20.75 £15.73
% change year-on-year -15.66% +31.91% -70.04%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

Telecoms falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 181 182 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 51.86% 55.66% 54.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 96 74
10th Percentile £209 £200 £225
25th Percentile £406 £363 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £410
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% +17.99% -7.87%
75th Percentile £579 £591 £538
90th Percentile £641 £679 £595
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 34 112
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.15 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.22 £15.81 £15.62
Median hourly rate £14.89 £18.54 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -19.68% +14.20% +11.93%
75th Percentile £17.99 £31.00 £21.46
90th Percentile £29.73 £31.86 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £38.41 £39.55
% change year-on-year -45.33% -2.88% +116.65%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Telecoms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Telecoms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Telecoms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 22 July 2026. 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
Cambridge 0 2 - - 11
Telecoms
East of England

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft