Telecoms Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Telecommunications
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.74% 0.84% -
As % of the General category 1.12% 1.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £161 - -
25th Percentile £233 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £303 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% - -
75th Percentile £349 £556 -
90th Percentile £383 - -
North West median daily rate £225 £405 £450
% change year-on-year -44.44% -10.00% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.38 - -
Median hourly rate £17.75 - -
75th Percentile £18.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £17.75 £48.56 £13.48
% change year-on-year -63.45% +260.24% -

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 448 324 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 66.67% 68.35% 73.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 185 173
10th Percentile £268 £356 £253
25th Percentile £358 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% -1.96% +14.61%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £560
90th Percentile £683 £651 £615
North West median daily rate £450 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -5.86% -4.40% +3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 27
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.55 £16.90
25th Percentile £18.69 £18.25 £17.61
Median hourly rate £23.50 £24.09 £24.05
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% +0.17% +49.66%
75th Percentile £38.60 £33.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.55 £83.45 £38.35
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £27.50 £22.81
% change year-on-year +7.64% +20.59% +13.66%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Telecoms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in Cheshire over the 6 months to 11 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Cheshire

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Telecoms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Knutsford - 3 £330 -
Warrington -11 1 £115 -78.60% 3
Macclesfield - 1 - -
Telecoms
North West

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Electronics
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Installation Technician
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (20.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Product Management
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Traceability Matrix
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CBAP
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow