Telecoms Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Telecommunications Engineer
UK > England

The median Telecommunications Engineer daily rate in England is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 505 511
Rank change year-on-year -93 +6 +88
Contract jobs requiring a Telecoms Engineer 15 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.033% 0.040% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.043% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £318 £509 £310
25th Percentile £340 £523 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £548 £345
Median % change year-on-year -31.51% +58.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £430 £573 £361
90th Percentile £620 £588 £370
UK median daily rate £340 £500 £329
% change year-on-year -32.00% +52.09% -12.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £21.08 £48.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £21.56 £67.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £23.38 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% -67.76% +190.00%
75th Percentile £24.75 £26.19 £75.00
90th Percentile - £27.28 -
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £23.38 £72.50
% change year-on-year +4.81% -67.76% +190.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 42,146 25,333 30,967
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.63% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,503 16,397 20,301
10th Percentile £325 £283 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,173 1,332 1,801
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.51 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +7.66%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.31 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.21% -41.51% +2.38%

Telecoms Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Telecoms Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Telecoms Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Telecoms Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Telecoms Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Telecoms Engineer job vacancies in England

Telecoms Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms Engineer in England

Telecoms Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Telecoms Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Telecoms Engineer job vacancies in England

Telecoms Engineer
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 Telecoms Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. 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
South East -60 7 £375 -25.00% 10
London -75 5 £575 -3.36% 5
North of England -62 1 £751 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £751 - 2
South West - 1 £363 - 5
Telecoms Engineer
UK

Telecoms Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 August 2026, Telecoms Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Telecoms Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
1 4 (26.67%) LTE
1 4 (26.67%) Validation
2 3 (20.00%) 2G
2 3 (20.00%) 3G
2 3 (20.00%) 4G
2 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (13.33%) Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) High Availability
3 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Inventory Management
3 2 (13.33%) Juniper
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) MPLS
3 2 (13.33%) Nokia
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (13.33%) Structured Cabling

Telecoms Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) ArcGIS
1 1 (6.67%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) MicroStation
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) LTE
2 3 (20.00%) 2G
2 3 (20.00%) 3G
2 3 (20.00%) 4G
2 3 (20.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (13.33%) MPLS
3 2 (13.33%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (13.33%) VoIP
4 1 (6.67%) 5G
4 1 (6.67%) DAB
4 1 (6.67%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (6.67%) DWDM
4 1 (6.67%) Internet
4 1 (6.67%) PSTN
4 1 (6.67%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (6.67%) SCCP
4 1 (6.67%) SDH
4 1 (6.67%) SS7
4 1 (6.67%) TCAP
4 1 (6.67%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) GIS
1 1 (6.67%) Looker
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (6.67%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
General
1 15 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (6.67%) SCADA
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Validation
2 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (13.33%) High Availability
3 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Inventory Management
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Modelling
4 1 (6.67%) Change Management
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (6.67%) ETL
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL
4 1 (6.67%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Operational Stability
4 1 (6.67%) Quality Management
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) C
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) LookML
3 1 (6.67%) R
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) BC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) KVM
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Juniper
2 2 (13.33%) Nokia
3 1 (6.67%) Autodesk
3 1 (6.67%) Cramer
3 1 (6.67%) Ericsson
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Huawei
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) NetCracker
3 1 (6.67%) VMware