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 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 88 66
Rank change year-on-year -13 -22 +38
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 36 30 58
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.59% 1.68% 2.78%
As % of the General category 2.55% 2.24% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 25
10th Percentile £296 £406 £374
25th Percentile £406 £488 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -5.24% -12.50%
75th Percentile £673 £641 £628
90th Percentile £694 £710 £675
Central London median daily rate £520 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +5.05% -5.71% -12.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £23.93 £60.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £30.15 £70.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.35 £81.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% -49.11% -
75th Percentile £31.00 £52.96 £106.56
90th Percentile - £59.43 £131.88
Central London median hourly rate £41.50 £41.35 £81.25
% change year-on-year +0.37% -49.11% -

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 1,342 1,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 62.21% 74.93% 68.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 892 895
10th Percentile £357 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £676 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £571 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +3.77% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 10
10th Percentile £18.75 £17.02 £13.73
25th Percentile £19.30 £24.00 £17.06
Median hourly rate £23.16 £31.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% +15.74% +50.00%
75th Percentile £34.88 £63.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £47.99 £67.89 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £28.07 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% +13.33% +36.36%

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 13 September 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 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.78%) ArcGIS
1 1 (2.78%) Camunda
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) AWS
2 4 (11.11%) GCP
3 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.56%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.78%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (2.78%) Dagster
5 1 (2.78%) dbt
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) Prefect
5 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
1 3 (8.33%) VoIP
2 2 (5.56%) RTP
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.56%) Value-Added Service
2 2 (5.56%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.78%) 2G
3 1 (2.78%) 4G
3 1 (2.78%) 5G
3 1 (2.78%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.78%) Intelligent Network
3 1 (2.78%) IP Telephony
3 1 (2.78%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.78%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.78%) VLAN
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Power Query
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) GIS
2 1 (2.78%) Looker
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) QGIS
2 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) GitLab
1 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
1 1 (2.78%) JMeter
1 1 (2.78%) Locust
1 1 (2.78%) Newman
1 1 (2.78%) Robot Framework
1 1 (2.78%) TestCafe
General
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Legal
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Architect
2 7 (19.44%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Mobile Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) Telecoms Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Designer
6 2 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Desktop Support
6 2 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Help Desk Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) REST
2 2 (5.56%) SOAP
3 1 (2.78%) Ajax
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) jBPM
3 1 (2.78%) JMS
3 1 (2.78%) Kafka
3 1 (2.78%) LDAP
3 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.78%) Servlets
3 1 (2.78%) Spring
3 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.78%) Taurus
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Web Services
3 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) CMDB
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.78%) Graphic Design
3 1 (2.78%) Media Streaming
3 1 (2.78%) NHS
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Social Media
3 1 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) CentOS
3 1 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (16.67%) ITIL
2 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (13.89%) ITSM
3 5 (13.89%) Migration
4 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 4 (11.11%) Presales
4 4 (11.11%) Service Management
4 4 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (11.11%) Validation
5 3 (8.33%) Agile
5 3 (8.33%) Analytics
5 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.33%) Financial Modelling
5 3 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (5.56%) Business Strategy
6 2 (5.56%) Containerisation
6 2 (5.56%) DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) CCNA
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.78%) CCNP
4 1 (2.78%) CISM
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) MOS
4 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GRC
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NCSC
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) Docker
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow
3 4 (11.11%) Cisco
4 3 (8.33%) Adobe
4 3 (8.33%) Anaplan
5 2 (5.56%) Autodesk
5 2 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (5.56%) CyberArk
5 2 (5.56%) Metaswitch
5 2 (5.56%) Samsung
5 2 (5.56%) Symantec
6 1 (2.78%) Apple
6 1 (2.78%) Databricks
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) IBM
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) Pega
6 1 (2.78%) Qualys
6 1 (2.78%) VMware
6 1 (2.78%) Workday
48 Telecoms jobs in the City of London