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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 61 109
Rank change year-on-year -28 +48 +42
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 33 66 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.70% 2.89% 1.62%
As % of the General category 2.28% 4.30% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 43
10th Percentile £360 £350 £283
25th Percentile £475 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £598
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -12.13% +3.91%
75th Percentile £675 £623 £703
90th Percentile £747 £675 £770
London median daily rate £475 £499 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -9.32% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £60.50 -
25th Percentile £30.15 £70.63 -
Median hourly rate £41.35 £81.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.11% - -
75th Percentile £52.96 £106.56 -
90th Percentile £59.43 £131.88 -
London median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £71.25
% change year-on-year -31.20% -12.28% +174.04%

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 1,446 1,534 2,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 74.50% 67.07% 63.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 975 1,476
10th Percentile £315 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £769 £800 £825
London median daily rate £545 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 14
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.01 £14.84
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +42.11% -53.66%
75th Percentile £50.75 £51.75 £35.69
90th Percentile £64.11 £87.00 £60.82
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -16.08%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms 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 16 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in Central London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 -25 30 £498 -5.24% 91
City of Westminster -3 2 £353 -17.06% 3
Telecoms
London

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (15.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP CO
1 1 (3.03%) SAP FI
1 1 (3.03%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) GCP
2 4 (12.12%) GitHub
2 4 (12.12%) Stackdriver
3 3 (9.09%) Apigee
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (6.06%) Azure
4 2 (6.06%) BrowserStack
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) HTTP
1 2 (6.06%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (6.06%) Modbus
1 2 (6.06%) Softphone
1 2 (6.06%) Wireless
2 1 (3.03%) BGP
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.03%) MySQL
1 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.03%) Redis
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) GitLab
2 5 (15.15%) JIRA
3 3 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 3 (9.09%) Gradle
3 3 (9.09%) Maven
4 2 (6.06%) Postman
5 1 (3.03%) Mocha
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Legal
3 4 (12.12%) Marketing
4 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Back Office
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) French Language
5 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Developer
2 4 (12.12%) Consultant
2 4 (12.12%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Angular Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Category Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Procurement Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Security Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Web Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Procurement Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) CSS
1 5 (15.15%) HTML
2 4 (12.12%) GraphQL
2 4 (12.12%) Node.js
3 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 3 (9.09%) HTML5
3 3 (9.09%) Next.js
3 3 (9.09%) React
4 1 (3.03%) Fastify
4 1 (3.03%) Jest
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.03%) OpenID
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) Swagger
4 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 3 (9.09%) IVR
2 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.06%) Insider Threat
2 2 (6.06%) iPad
2 2 (6.06%) Life Science
2 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.06%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.06%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (6.06%) SCADA
2 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.06%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (18.18%) Agile
2 6 (18.18%) DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
3 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (12.12%) CRM
3 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (12.12%) Microservices
3 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (9.09%) Analytics
4 3 (9.09%) B2B
4 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 3 (9.09%) Decision-Making
4 3 (9.09%) Design Patterns
4 3 (9.09%) E-Commerce
4 3 (9.09%) Front End Development
4 3 (9.09%) Information Security
4 3 (9.09%) ITIL
4 3 (9.09%) Server Management
4 3 (9.09%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
2 3 (9.09%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.06%) C++
3 2 (6.06%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.06%) CCNA
3 2 (6.06%) CCNP
3 2 (6.06%) CISM
3 2 (6.06%) CISSP
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) CCIE
4 1 (3.03%) JNCIE
4 1 (3.03%) JNCIP
4 1 (3.03%) JNCIS
4 1 (3.03%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.09%) GDPR
3 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (6.06%) NIST
3 2 (6.06%) QA
3 2 (6.06%) WCAG
4 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Ansible
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
1 4 (12.12%) Puppet
1 4 (12.12%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) Istio
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Google
2 4 (12.12%) Salesforce
2 4 (12.12%) Splunk
3 3 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 2 (6.06%) Polycom
4 2 (6.06%) Rockwell
4 2 (6.06%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) Avaya
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) Citrix
5 1 (3.03%) Dell
5 1 (3.03%) Juniper
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) VMware