Telecoms Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Telecommunications
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 97 86
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 +26
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 39 28 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.60% 1.50% 2.13%
As % of the General category 2.76% 2.04% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 24
10th Percentile £313 £383 £371
25th Percentile £439 £485 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -13.58%
75th Percentile £694 £619 £615
90th Percentile £815 £711 £675
Central London median daily rate £524 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.70% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £60.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £61.25 £70.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.50 £81.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% -23.08% +292.42%
75th Percentile £31.00 £63.75 £106.56
90th Percentile - - £131.88
Central London median hourly rate £41.50 £62.50 £81.25
% change year-on-year -33.60% -23.08% +292.42%

All General Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,411 1,375 1,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 58.02% 73.85% 67.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 880 983
10th Percentile £356 £337 £345
25th Percentile £456 £429 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £700 £682 £700
90th Percentile £813 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 11
10th Percentile - £17.02 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.38% +20.37% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £52.49 £89.88 £92.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.08 £34.24 £30.00
% change year-on-year -26.75% +14.13% +44.89%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in the City of London

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Telecoms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the City of London

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Telecoms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.56%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) AWS
2 4 (10.26%) Dagster
2 4 (10.26%) dbt
2 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.26%) Prefect
2 4 (10.26%) Snowflake
3 3 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) 4G
1 3 (7.69%) 5G
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
1 3 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (5.13%) 3G
2 2 (5.13%) DNS
2 2 (5.13%) NaaS
2 2 (5.13%) Network Security
2 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.56%) 2G
3 1 (2.56%) BT 21CN
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.56%) IP Telephony
3 1 (2.56%) LAN
3 1 (2.56%) LTE
3 1 (2.56%) NGN
3 1 (2.56%) PSTN
3 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.56%) VLAN
3 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Tableau
2 4 (10.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (10.26%) BigQuery
2 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.26%) Looker
2 4 (10.26%) Power BI
3 2 (5.13%) Power Query
4 1 (2.56%) GIS
4 1 (2.56%) QGIS
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Legal
5 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Billing
6 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Architect
2 7 (17.95%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Mobile Solutions Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Telecoms Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Help Desk Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Network Design Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Network Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) Programme Manager
6 2 (5.13%) SAP Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) jBPM
2 1 (2.56%) JMS
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.56%) SOAP
2 1 (2.56%) Spring
2 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) CMDB
1 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.56%) Graphic Design
2 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) NHS
2 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.56%) Social Media
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (15.38%) Analytics
3 5 (12.82%) Data Modelling
3 5 (12.82%) Decision-Making
3 5 (12.82%) Presales
3 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (10.26%) Data Engineering
4 4 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (10.26%) ETL
4 4 (10.26%) People Analytics
4 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (10.26%) Test Automation
4 4 (10.26%) Thought Leadership
4 4 (10.26%) Use Case
5 3 (7.69%) Coaching
5 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (7.69%) Financial Modelling
5 3 (7.69%) Migration
5 3 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) SQL
3 1 (2.56%) Java
3 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) CCNA
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.56%) CCNP
4 1 (2.56%) CISM
4 1 (2.56%) CISSP
4 1 (2.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) Data Quality
1 4 (10.26%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) GRC
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) NCSC
2 1 (2.56%) NIST
2 1 (2.56%) PMO
2 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
1 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Databricks
3 4 (10.26%) Workday
4 3 (7.69%) Anaplan
4 3 (7.69%) Cisco
5 2 (5.13%) SAP
5 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.56%) Adobe
6 1 (2.56%) Apple
6 1 (2.56%) BT
6 1 (2.56%) Ericsson
6 1 (2.56%) Huawei
6 1 (2.56%) IBM
6 1 (2.56%) Juniper
6 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.56%) Nokia
6 1 (2.56%) Pega
6 1 (2.56%) Qualys
6 1 (2.56%) VMware
6 1 (2.56%) Zscaler