PSTN Contracts in England

Public Switched Telecom Network (PSTN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring PSTN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PSTN over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 517 590
Rank change year-on-year +29 +73 +174
Contract jobs citing PSTN 18 24 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.066% 0.069% 0.095%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.52% 0.54% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 26
10th Percentile £216 £319 £205
25th Percentile £350 £372 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -4.49%
75th Percentile £480 £546 £548
90th Percentile £507 £607 £613
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £13.63 -
25th Percentile £61.75 £16.85 £12.50
Median hourly rate £63.50 £25.77 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +146.46% +98.19% -
75th Percentile £65.25 £26.15 £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £25.77 £13.00
% change year-on-year +146.46% +98.19% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

PSTN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,460 4,483 5,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.64% 12.82% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 2,724 3,854
10th Percentile £235 £225 £230
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £608 £637
90th Percentile £675 £688 £734
UK median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 332 264
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £10.63
25th Percentile £20.84 £17.69 £17.23
Median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -4.04% +95.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.99
90th Percentile £86.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +72.41%

PSTN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PSTN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PSTN in England

PSTN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PSTN in England.

Daily rate trend for PSTN in England

PSTN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PSTN in England over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PSTN in England

PSTN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PSTN in England.

Hourly rate trend for PSTN in England

PSTN
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PSTN within the England region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
London +35 10 £478 +6.11%
North of England -10 5 - - 2
North West - 4 - - 1
Midlands -5 2 £258 +60.94%
West Midlands -1 1 £350 -
Yorkshire -6 1 - - 1
East Midlands -9 1 £165 +3.13%
PSTN
UK

PSTN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (22.22%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Firewall
1 7 (38.89%) LAN
1 7 (38.89%) WAN
2 6 (33.33%) MPLS
2 6 (33.33%) VoIP
2 6 (33.33%) VPN
3 4 (22.22%) 4G
3 4 (22.22%) ISDN
3 4 (22.22%) Skype
3 4 (22.22%) SMTP
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (11.11%) Internet
4 2 (11.11%) IPsec
4 2 (11.11%) NGFW
4 2 (11.11%) Wireless
5 1 (5.56%) Intranet
5 1 (5.56%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
5 1 (5.56%) VLAN
5 1 (5.56%) WebEx
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Electronics
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Collaboration Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Telephony Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Telephony Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Exchange Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Field Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Openreach Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Voice Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) VoIP Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) VoIP Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Blackberry
1 4 (22.22%) Handset
1 4 (22.22%) Operational Technology
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) SCADA
3 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Android
1 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Agile
1 5 (27.78%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (22.22%) Business Strategy
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
2 4 (22.22%) Network Design
2 4 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
2 4 (22.22%) Zero Trust
3 3 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 2 (11.11%) User Experience
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (5.56%) Converged Infrastructure
5 1 (5.56%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) CCNA
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
2 4 (22.22%) Clearswift
2 4 (22.22%) Ribbon
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Aruba
3 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 2 (11.11%) F5
3 2 (11.11%) Juniper
3 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) Openreach
4 1 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow