Telecoms Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Telecommunications
South London > Croydon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Croydon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 25 31
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 2 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.14% 6.25% 1.04%
As % of the General category 2.08% 11.11% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £552 - -
25th Percentile £601 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £744 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.09%
75th Percentile £826 - £438
90th Percentile £841 - -
South London median daily rate £744 - £425
% change year-on-year - - +15.25%

All General Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 96 45 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 54.55% 56.25% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 26 21
10th Percentile £350 £260 £400
25th Percentile £456 £447 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £483
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +4.15% -12.27%
75th Percentile £544 £582 £525
90th Percentile £658 £678 £588
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £19.50
75th Percentile £19.50 - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £17.85 £15.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +12.69% -18.77% -61.32%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Croydon

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in Croydon over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Croydon

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) IPv4
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google