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 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 78 102
Rank change year-on-year -22 +24 +41
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 31 58 51
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.62% 2.47% 1.70%
As % of the General category 2.19% 3.68% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 40
10th Percentile £406 £350 £279
25th Percentile £468 £405 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -5.86% -7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £650
90th Percentile £755 £675 £701
London median daily rate £464 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -7.25% -13.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £40.25 -
25th Percentile £19.79 £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £20.19 £77.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -73.95% - -
75th Percentile £20.60 £92.50 -
90th Percentile - £126.25 -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £57.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -34.78% +12.20% +88.07%

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 common skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,414 1,574 1,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 73.72% 67.09% 64.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 973 1,371
10th Percentile £328 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £791 £825
London median daily rate £548 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.78% -1.71% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 15
10th Percentile £17.36 £14.00 £15.35
25th Percentile £19.98 £29.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +27.27% -33.73%
75th Percentile £41.75 £70.00 £55.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £92.50 £71.75
London median hourly rate £28.50 £37.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -24.00% +6.38% +13.71%

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 8 November 2025.

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
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 8 November 2025. 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 -31 25 £498 -5.24% 149
City of Westminster 0 3 £475 +18.75% 2
West End of London - 1 £773 - 2
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 (12.90%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (9.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) GCP
1 4 (12.90%) GitHub
1 4 (12.90%) Stackdriver
2 3 (9.68%) Apigee
2 3 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (6.45%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) BrowserStack
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Datadog
4 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.23%) Miro
4 1 (3.23%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) LAN
1 3 (9.68%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (9.68%) WAN
2 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (6.45%) Modbus
2 2 (6.45%) Softphone
2 2 (6.45%) Wireless
3 1 (3.23%) 2G
3 1 (3.23%) 4G
3 1 (3.23%) 5G
3 1 (3.23%) BGP
3 1 (3.23%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) MPLS
3 1 (3.23%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) GIS
1 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.23%) MySQL
1 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) GitLab
2 5 (16.13%) JIRA
3 3 (9.68%) Cypress.io
3 3 (9.68%) Gradle
3 3 (9.68%) Maven
4 2 (6.45%) Postman
5 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.23%) Mocha
5 1 (3.23%) Robot Framework
5 1 (3.23%) Selenium
5 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Manufacturing
3 4 (12.90%) Marketing
4 2 (6.45%) Electronics
4 2 (6.45%) Legal
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Back Office
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) French Language
5 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Developer
1 5 (16.13%) IT Manager
2 4 (12.90%) Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) Business Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Lead
3 3 (9.68%) Procurement Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Angular Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Category Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (6.45%) Network Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Network Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) CRM Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) GraphQL
1 4 (12.90%) Node.js
2 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.45%) CSS
2 2 (6.45%) HTML
2 2 (6.45%) HTML5
2 2 (6.45%) Next.js
2 2 (6.45%) React
3 1 (3.23%) ADO
3 1 (3.23%) Jest
3 1 (3.23%) Jinja
3 1 (3.23%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) OAuth
3 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.23%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.23%) OpenID
3 1 (3.23%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) Swagger
3 1 (3.23%) XML
3 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.90%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (9.68%) IVR
4 2 (6.45%) Insider Threat
4 2 (6.45%) iPad
4 2 (6.45%) Life Science
4 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
4 2 (6.45%) SCADA
4 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.45%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) IoT
5 1 (3.23%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Agile
1 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (22.58%) DevOps
3 6 (19.35%) Logistics
3 6 (19.35%) Scrum
3 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (16.13%) Change Management
5 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
5 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
5 4 (12.90%) Microservices
5 4 (12.90%) Network Design
5 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (9.68%) Analytics
6 3 (9.68%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (9.68%) Design Patterns
6 3 (9.68%) Project Delivery
6 3 (9.68%) Server Management
6 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.45%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.45%) CCNA
3 2 (6.45%) CCNP
4 1 (3.23%) CCIE
4 1 (3.23%) JNCIE
4 1 (3.23%) JNCIP
4 1 (3.23%) JNCIS
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) PMO
2 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (6.45%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) WCAG
3 1 (3.23%) GRC
3 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Ansible
2 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) Puppet
2 4 (12.90%) Terraform
3 3 (9.68%) Istio
4 1 (3.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Cisco
3 4 (12.90%) Google
3 4 (12.90%) Splunk
4 3 (9.68%) Arista
4 3 (9.68%) MuleSoft
4 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.45%) Polycom
5 2 (6.45%) Rockwell
5 2 (6.45%) SAP
6 1 (3.23%) Ariba
6 1 (3.23%) Citrix
6 1 (3.23%) Dell
6 1 (3.23%) Juniper
6 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.23%) Veracode