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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 108 84
Rank change year-on-year +1 -24 +35
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 32 18 47
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.39% 0.91% 1.85%
As % of the General category 2.29% 1.32% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 8 40
10th Percentile £376 £341 £289
25th Percentile £438 £451 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £571 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% +23.51% -28.85%
75th Percentile £575 £676 £573
90th Percentile £815 £696 £615
London median daily rate £488 £530 £504
% change year-on-year -8.02% +5.26% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £53.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -29.91% +1.90% +31.25%

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 1,397 1,366 1,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 60.48% 69.30% 65.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 896 1,188
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £453 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £688 £685 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 15
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.53 £20.04
25th Percentile £19.55 £24.66 £21.36
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +16.28% -28.57%
75th Percentile £42.47 £34.68 £47.00
90th Percentile £54.27 £59.92 £65.00
London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%

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 1 April 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
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 1 April 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 -3 28 £522 -8.62% 40
City of Westminster - 1 £425 -
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 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) BambooHR
2 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) Dagster
2 3 (9.38%) dbt
2 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
2 3 (9.38%) Prefect
2 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
3 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) 4G
1 3 (9.38%) 5G
1 3 (9.38%) Radio Access Network
1 3 (9.38%) WAN
2 2 (6.25%) LAN
2 2 (6.25%) NaaS
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (3.13%) 2G
3 1 (3.13%) 3G
3 1 (3.13%) 3GPP
3 1 (3.13%) BT 21CN
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) LTE
3 1 (3.13%) NGN
3 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Tableau
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (9.38%) BigQuery
2 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (9.38%) Looker
2 3 (9.38%) Power BI
3 2 (6.25%) Power Query
4 1 (3.13%) GIS
General
1 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Legal
5 2 (6.25%) Billing
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Business Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Business IT Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) IT Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) IT Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) IT Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Network Design Specialist
4 3 (9.38%) Network Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Network Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Help Desk Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Network Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Programme Manager
5 2 (6.25%) SAP Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) jBPM
1 1 (3.13%) JMS
1 1 (3.13%) Kafka
1 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (3.13%) REST
1 1 (3.13%) Spring
1 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
1 3 (9.38%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) IoT
2 1 (3.13%) NB-IoT
2 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Analytics
2 6 (18.75%) Logistics
2 6 (18.75%) Migration
2 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 4 (12.50%) Network Design
5 3 (9.38%) Business Strategy
5 3 (9.38%) Change Management
5 3 (9.38%) Data Engineering
5 3 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (9.38%) Financial Modelling
5 3 (9.38%) People Analytics
5 3 (9.38%) Scrum
5 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
5 3 (9.38%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (9.38%) Use Case
5 3 (9.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.25%) GRC
3 2 (6.25%) PMO
4 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Databricks
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco
4 3 (9.38%) Anaplan
4 3 (9.38%) Workday
5 2 (6.25%) Arista
5 2 (6.25%) SAP
5 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) VMware
6 1 (3.13%) BT
6 1 (3.13%) Ericsson
6 1 (3.13%) Huawei
6 1 (3.13%) IBM
6 1 (3.13%) Juniper
6 1 (3.13%) Meraki
6 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.13%) Nokia
6 1 (3.13%) Pega
6 1 (3.13%) Progress
42 Telecoms jobs in Central London