Telecoms Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Telecommunications Engineer
UK > England

The median Telecommunications Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 513 583
Rank change year-on-year -1 +70 +171
Contract jobs requiring a Telecoms Engineer 10 15 9
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.036% 0.047% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.050% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £420 £312 £153
25th Percentile £450 £320 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £348 £396
Median % change year-on-year +43.88% -12.30% -29.56%
75th Percentile £625 £381 £450
90th Percentile £700 £393 £465
UK median daily rate £400 £345 £396
% change year-on-year +15.94% -12.93% -27.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £21.08 £48.00 -
25th Percentile £21.56 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £23.38 £72.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.76% - -
75th Percentile £26.19 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £27.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.38 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -67.76% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,623 29,744 38,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 93.08% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,502 18,152 26,664
10th Percentile £276 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,440 1,247 1,407
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £15.23
25th Percentile £17.32 £21.25 £19.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +67.93%
75th Percentile £50.81 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 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
South East +11 5 £500 - 7
Midlands -15 2 - - 3
West Midlands -21 2 - - 3
London +27 1 £400 - 16
East of England -4 1 - - 3
North of England -27 1 £750 -
North East - 1 £750 -
Telecoms Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, 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 10 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 4 (40.00%) Cisco
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Python
4 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) ETL
4 3 (30.00%) WFM
4 3 (30.00%) Validation
4 3 (30.00%) Workflow
4 3 (30.00%) Tableau
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Power BI
4 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making

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 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (30.00%) dbt
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (10.00%) 4G
2 1 (10.00%) BGP
2 1 (10.00%) Broadband
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) DWDM
2 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (10.00%) IPv6
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) LTE
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) OSPF
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (10.00%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (10.00%) TACACS
2 1 (10.00%) TETRA
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (30.00%) Tableau
General
1 10 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (30.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (30.00%) WFM
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design
3 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (20.00%) CCNA
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (10.00%) CCNP
4 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Dell
2 1 (10.00%) Juniper