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 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 506 591
Rank change year-on-year +5 +85 +138
Contract jobs requiring a Telecoms Engineer 8 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.040% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.043% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £310 £137
25th Percentile - £316 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £345 £375
Median % change year-on-year +44.93% -8.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile - £361 £409
90th Percentile - £370 £459
UK median daily rate £500 £329 £375
% change year-on-year +52.09% -12.33% -25.00%
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 25,160 30,528 40,440
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 93.03% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,227 19,194 28,282
10th Percentile £280 £303 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,346 1,509 1,368
10th Percentile £13.67 £14.63 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +70.66%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.35 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.71% +68.27%

Telecoms Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Telecoms Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms Engineer 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
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 September 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 +16 5 £500 - 9
Midlands -10 2 - - 2
West Midlands -15 2 - - 2
East of England +7 1 - -
Telecoms Engineer
UK

Telecoms Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 September 2025, Telecoms Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Telecoms Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (37.50%) Workflow
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) WFM
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Tableau
2 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Data Transformation
2 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Master's Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills

Telecoms Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (37.50%) dbt
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 4G
1 1 (12.50%) BGP
1 1 (12.50%) Broadband
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (12.50%) IPv6
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) OSPF
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (12.50%) TACACS
1 1 (12.50%) VoIP
1 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
1 3 (37.50%) Tableau
General
1 8 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
1 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (37.50%) Data Transformation
1 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
1 3 (37.50%) ETL
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Validation
1 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
1 3 (37.50%) WFM
1 3 (37.50%) Workflow
2 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
2 1 (12.50%) Defect Management
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Master's Degree
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
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