Telecoms Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Telecommunications
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 57 71
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +27
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 3 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.39% 1.27% 0.69%
As % of the General category 0.67% 1.62% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £350 £333
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +5.26% -31.37%
75th Percentile - - £572
90th Percentile - - £634
Scotland median daily rate £305 £325 £448
% change year-on-year -6.15% -27.37% -0.56%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 450 493 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 58.29% 78.25% 71.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 262 349
10th Percentile £250 £214 £161
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £465
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +1.08% -2.11%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £556
90th Percentile £650 £623 £663
Scotland median daily rate £470 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +1.51% +2.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 12 36
10th Percentile £17.65 £18.79 £13.38
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £23.77 £25.09
Median % change year-on-year +156.65% -5.27% +18.02%
75th Percentile £75.00 £37.17 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £58.58 £65.38
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £19.97 £18.20
% change year-on-year -18.63% +9.73% -8.45%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Logistics
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
Telecoms jobs