Telecoms Contracts in the East of England

Telecommunications
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 53 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 +18
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 26 58 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.73% 3.04% 2.75%
As % of the General category 4.41% 5.10% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 20
10th Percentile £313 £126 £233
25th Percentile £325 £281 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £469
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -20.00% -5.78%
75th Percentile £575 £463 £700
90th Percentile £613 £578 -
England median daily rate £495 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.63% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £23.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -55.71% -7.08%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £58.75
90th Percentile - £46.25 £64.75
England median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +50.00%

All General Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 590 1,138 1,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 61.84% 59.67% 59.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 412 640
10th Percentile £200 £214 £204
25th Percentile £343 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £627
90th Percentile £675 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 449 244
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.43 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.93 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +92.43% +32.07%
75th Percentile £65.56 £50.00 £60.64
90th Percentile £79.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £31.96
% change year-on-year -8.82% -5.63% +47.79%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the East of England

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the East of England

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the East of England

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the East of England

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Hertfordshire +17 12 £550 +37.50% 140
Cambridgeshire -4 8 £375 +120.59% 112
Essex +15 3 £330 +230.00% 109
Suffolk -11 2 £350 -33.33% 37
Bedfordshire -3 1 - - 73
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (7.69%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.69%) Skype for Business
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.85%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) Cohesity
2 1 (3.85%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) OCI
2 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) 5G
1 7 (26.92%) Wireless
2 5 (19.23%) LTE
3 2 (7.69%) 3GPP
3 2 (7.69%) 4G
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (7.69%) Firewall
3 2 (7.69%) IMAP
3 2 (7.69%) SAN
3 2 (7.69%) Skype
3 2 (7.69%) SMTP
4 1 (3.85%) GSM
4 1 (3.85%) Network Security
4 1 (3.85%) WCDMA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Big Data
1 1 (3.85%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Selenium
2 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Electronics
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 4 (15.38%) Marketing
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Billing
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Field Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Test Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Field Test Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) C++ Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer in Test
5 2 (7.69%) Linux Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Messaging Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Network Field Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Junior
6 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) REST
1 3 (11.54%) RESTful
2 2 (7.69%) OpenAPI
2 2 (7.69%) Swagger
3 1 (3.85%) JTAPI
3 1 (3.85%) Matplotlib
3 1 (3.85%) NumPy
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.85%) Pandas
3 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.85%) Seaborn
3 1 (3.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
1 2 (7.69%) Blackberry
1 2 (7.69%) IoT
1 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) IVR
2 1 (3.85%) Life Science
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows
3 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (19.23%) Agile
1 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
2 4 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (15.38%) Programme Management
2 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 3 (11.54%) Change Management
3 3 (11.54%) Microservices
3 3 (11.54%) PRINCE2
3 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
3 3 (11.54%) Validation
4 2 (7.69%) API Development
4 2 (7.69%) API Testing
4 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office Automation
4 2 (7.69%) Office Automation
4 2 (7.69%) Project Management
4 2 (7.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) C++
4 2 (7.69%) Go
4 2 (7.69%) Groovy
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) PhD
3 1 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ITGC
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) CheckPoint
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco
2 2 (7.69%) HP
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) NetApp
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Ariba
3 1 (3.85%) Avaya
3 1 (3.85%) EMC
3 1 (3.85%) F5
3 1 (3.85%) MKS
3 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Verint