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 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 91 101
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 +33
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 29 45 47
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.46% 1.88% 1.67%
As % of the General category 2.03% 2.82% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 37
10th Percentile £406 £352 £287
25th Percentile £438 £428 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £628 £623
90th Percentile £654 £676 £688
London median daily rate £463 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -12.94% -7.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £38.00 -
25th Percentile £19.79 £48.13 -
Median hourly rate £20.19 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.09% - -
75th Percentile £20.60 £82.19 -
90th Percentile - £88.38 -
London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year -28.57% -10.83% +37.72%

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 1,426 1,595 1,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 72.02% 66.54% 65.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 997 1,321
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £580
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £775 £789 £825
London median daily rate £537 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.61% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 14
10th Percentile £19.05 £14.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.96 £22.00 £22.88
Median hourly rate £34.00 £33.75 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% +26.17% -47.03%
75th Percentile £49.83 £47.00 £60.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £77.00 £71.13
London median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% +7.14% +2.94%

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 9 December 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 9 December 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 -22 20 £500 -4.76% 28
City of Westminster +4 4 £450 - 5
West End of London - 1 £773 - 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 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (10.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) AWS
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
1 2 (6.90%) BrowserStack
1 2 (6.90%) GCP
1 2 (6.90%) GitHub
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (6.90%) SaaS
1 2 (6.90%) Stackdriver
2 1 (3.45%) Apigee
2 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.45%) Datadog
2 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (3.45%) Miro
2 1 (3.45%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) WAN
2 3 (10.34%) LAN
2 3 (10.34%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 2 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (6.90%) Modbus
3 2 (6.90%) Softphone
3 2 (6.90%) Wireless
4 1 (3.45%) 2G
4 1 (3.45%) 4G
4 1 (3.45%) 5G
4 1 (3.45%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) GIS
1 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
1 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) GitLab
2 3 (10.34%) Cypress.io
2 3 (10.34%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Postman
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) Gradle
4 1 (3.45%) Maven
4 1 (3.45%) Mocha
4 1 (3.45%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
2 4 (13.79%) Marketing
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Electronics
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Analyst
1 6 (20.69%) Business Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) IT Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Business IT Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) IT Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) IT Business Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Lead
3 3 (10.34%) Procurement Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Category Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (6.90%) Network Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Network Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
1 2 (6.90%) Node.js
2 1 (3.45%) ADO
2 1 (3.45%) Fastify
2 1 (3.45%) Jest
2 1 (3.45%) Jinja
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) NETCONF
2 1 (3.45%) OAuth
2 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.45%) OpenID
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) Swagger
2 1 (3.45%) XML
2 1 (3.45%) YAML
2 1 (3.45%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Data Centre
1 6 (20.69%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (6.90%) Insider Threat
2 2 (6.90%) iPad
2 2 (6.90%) Life Science
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.90%) SCADA
2 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.90%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) IoT
3 1 (3.45%) IVR
3 1 (3.45%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
1 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (27.59%) Logistics
3 7 (24.14%) Migration
3 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Scrum
5 5 (17.24%) DevOps
6 4 (13.79%) Business Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Change Management
6 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
6 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.79%) Network Design
6 4 (13.79%) Service Management
7 3 (10.34%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (10.34%) Network Architecture
7 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.34%) Project Management
7 3 (10.34%) Server Management
7 3 (10.34%) Time Management
7 3 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.90%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.90%) CCNA
2 2 (6.90%) CCNP
2 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) PMO
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (6.90%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) WCAG
3 1 (3.45%) GRC
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) Docker
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Puppet
2 2 (6.90%) SCCM
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) Arista
3 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.90%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) Polycom
4 2 (6.90%) Rockwell
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 2 (6.90%) Splunk
4 2 (6.90%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Ariba
5 1 (3.45%) Dell
5 1 (3.45%) Meraki
5 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.45%) Veracode