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 16 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 93 82
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 +35
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 33 22 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.43% 1.26% 1.81%
As % of the General category 2.53% 1.76% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 27
10th Percentile £345 £341 £338
25th Percentile £444 £451 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £493 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% +9.44% -30.77%
75th Percentile £694 £563 £607
90th Percentile £855 £649 £680
Central London median daily rate £513 £493 £498
% change year-on-year +4.06% -1.01% -23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

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 1,306 1,248 1,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 56.61% 71.64% 66.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 778 1,007
10th Percentile £363 £331 £338
25th Percentile £463 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.12%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £700
90th Percentile £818 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -0.52% +4.31% -8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 8
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.74
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.15
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.58 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% +31.99% +6.70%
75th Percentile £42.65 £48.75 £27.13
90th Percentile £53.25 £96.38 £34.33
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -10.18% +21.13% -14.29%

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 16 May 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 (12.12%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) Dagster
1 4 (12.12%) dbt
1 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
1 4 (12.12%) Prefect
1 4 (12.12%) Snowflake
2 3 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (6.06%) AWS
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) 4G
1 2 (6.06%) 5G
1 2 (6.06%) NaaS
1 2 (6.06%) Network Security
1 2 (6.06%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (3.03%) 3G
2 1 (3.03%) 3GPP
2 1 (3.03%) BT 21CN
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) LTE
2 1 (3.03%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Tableau
2 4 (12.12%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (12.12%) BigQuery
2 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (12.12%) Looker
2 4 (12.12%) Power BI
3 2 (6.06%) Power Query
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Legal
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Billing
6 1 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Architect
2 7 (21.21%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Mobile Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Telecoms Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Help Desk Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Network Design Specialist
7 2 (6.06%) Network Specialist
7 2 (6.06%) Programme Manager
7 2 (6.06%) SAP Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Enterprise Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) jBPM
1 1 (3.03%) JMS
1 1 (3.03%) Kafka
1 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (3.03%) REST
1 1 (3.03%) Spring
1 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
1 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.21%) Analytics
2 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
2 5 (15.15%) Presales
2 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (12.12%) Data Engineering
3 4 (12.12%) Data Modelling
3 4 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (12.12%) ETL
3 4 (12.12%) People Analytics
3 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
3 4 (12.12%) Thought Leadership
3 4 (12.12%) Use Case
4 3 (9.09%) Business Strategy
4 3 (9.09%) Coaching
4 3 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (9.09%) Financial Modelling
4 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) Python
1 5 (15.15%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) GRC
2 1 (3.03%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Databricks
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Workday
3 3 (9.09%) Anaplan
4 2 (6.06%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) BT
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) Ericsson
5 1 (3.03%) Huawei
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) Juniper
5 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.03%) Nokia
5 1 (3.03%) Pega
5 1 (3.03%) Progress
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow