Telecoms Contract Job Trends in Central London

Telecommunications
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 105 69
Rank change year-on-year +9 -36 +43
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 53 30 61
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.04% 1.46% 2.65%
As % of the General category 3.45% 1.99% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 36
10th Percentile £381 £434 £350
25th Percentile £443 £483 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.71% -8.70%
75th Percentile £666 £579 £608
90th Percentile £694 £702 £656
London median daily rate £520 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +9.47% -4.52% -6.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £31.25 - £60.50
25th Percentile £34.63 £61.25 £70.63
Median hourly rate £41.50 £62.50 £81.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.60% -23.08% -
75th Percentile £48.63 £63.75 £106.56
90th Percentile £52.15 - £131.88
London median hourly rate £47.00 £52.75 £68.00
% change year-on-year -10.90% -22.43% -20.00%

All General Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,538 1,506 1,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 59.15% 73.43% 67.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 976 987 1,042
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £462 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £676 £688
90th Percentile £809 £775 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £20.94
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.00 £26.56
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +3.03% +24.53%
75th Percentile £53.50 £51.46 £61.25
90th Percentile £64.25 £65.57 £89.75
London median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £33.75
% change year-on-year -7.32% -8.73% -3.57%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Central London

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Telecoms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in Central London over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Central London

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Telecoms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in Central London over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in Central London

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 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
City of London +4 40 £513 +3.02% 21
City of Westminster -5 4 £675 +42.11% 2
West End of London - 2 £675 - 1
Telecoms
London

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (7.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.89%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.89%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.55%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.32%) dbt
2 5 (9.43%) Azure
3 4 (7.55%) AWS
3 4 (7.55%) Dagster
3 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.55%) Prefect
3 4 (7.55%) Snowflake
4 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.66%) GCP
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) Firewall
2 3 (5.66%) 4G
2 3 (5.66%) 5G
2 3 (5.66%) Network Security
2 3 (5.66%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (3.77%) 3G
3 2 (3.77%) DNS
3 2 (3.77%) NaaS
3 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.89%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.89%) BT 21CN
4 1 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.89%) HTTP
4 1 (1.89%) LAN
4 1 (1.89%) LTE
4 1 (1.89%) PSTN
4 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.89%) VoIP
4 1 (1.89%) VPN
4 1 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) Tableau
2 4 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (7.55%) BigQuery
2 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (7.55%) Looker
2 4 (7.55%) Power BI
3 2 (3.77%) Power Query
4 1 (1.89%) GIS
4 1 (1.89%) QGIS
General
1 16 (30.19%) Finance
2 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Legal
5 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Retail
7 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.89%) Electronics
7 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (45.28%) Architect
2 11 (20.75%) ServiceNow Architect
3 9 (16.98%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Enterprise Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Telecoms Architect
5 6 (11.32%) Mobile Solutions Architect
5 6 (11.32%) Senior
6 4 (7.55%) Designer
7 3 (5.66%) Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Help Desk Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Lead
8 2 (3.77%) Network Design Specialist
8 2 (3.77%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Network Specialist
8 2 (3.77%) Programme Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Enterprise Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) REST
2 10 (18.87%) SOAP
3 1 (1.89%) Ajax
3 1 (1.89%) CSS
3 1 (1.89%) HTML
3 1 (1.89%) jBPM
3 1 (1.89%) JMS
3 1 (1.89%) Kafka
3 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.89%) Spring
3 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.89%) Web Services
3 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) CMDB
2 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.89%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) NHS
4 1 (1.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.64%) ITSM
2 11 (20.75%) Data Modelling
2 11 (20.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (16.98%) ITIL
3 9 (16.98%) Roadmaps
4 8 (15.09%) Analytics
4 8 (15.09%) Decision-Making
4 8 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (13.21%) Service Management
6 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (11.32%) Translating Business Requirements
7 5 (9.43%) Agile
7 5 (9.43%) CAD
7 5 (9.43%) IT Asset Management
7 5 (9.43%) Migration
7 5 (9.43%) Presales
7 5 (9.43%) Security Operations
7 5 (9.43%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (9.43%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) JavaScript
2 6 (11.32%) Python
3 4 (7.55%) SQL
4 1 (1.89%) Java
4 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) CCNA
3 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) CCNP
4 1 (1.89%) CISM
4 1 (1.89%) CISSP
4 1 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) GRC
2 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.89%) NCSC
3 1 (1.89%) NIST
3 1 (1.89%) PMO
3 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.89%) SCCM
2 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) ServiceNow
2 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.43%) Anaplan
4 4 (7.55%) Databricks
4 4 (7.55%) Workday
5 3 (5.66%) Cisco
6 2 (3.77%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (3.77%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.89%) Adobe
7 1 (1.89%) Apple
7 1 (1.89%) BT
7 1 (1.89%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.89%) Huawei
7 1 (1.89%) IBM
7 1 (1.89%) Juniper
7 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.89%) Nokia
7 1 (1.89%) Qualys
7 1 (1.89%) VMware
7 1 (1.89%) Zscaler