Telecoms Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Telecommunications
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in the City of Westminster. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 8 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 4.44% 10.42% -
As % of the General category 6.45% 15.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £255 - -
25th Percentile £291 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% - -
75th Percentile £414 £469 -
90th Percentile £451 £503 -
Central London median daily rate £498 £523 £600
% change year-on-year -4.78% -12.92% +4.35%

All General Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 31 33 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 68.89% 68.75% 52.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 28
10th Percentile £375 £386 £235
25th Percentile £450 £440 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £547
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.20% +6.26%
75th Percentile £631 £584 £831
90th Percentile £775 £788 £938
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £19.49 - -
25th Percentile £20.41 - -
Median hourly rate £21.97 - £26.00
75th Percentile £23.55 - -
90th Percentile £24.49 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £31.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +9.68% +63.16% -53.66%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the City of Westminster

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the City of Westminster

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 22 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
Paddington 0 2 £353 -27.69% 2
Telecoms
Central London

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Mocha
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Fastify
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Blocking Code
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk