Telecoms Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Telecommunications Engineer
UK > England

The median Telecommunications Engineer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 463 541
Rank change year-on-year -93 +78 +139
Contract jobs requiring a Telecoms Engineer 11 12 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.031% 0.047% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.051% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 7
10th Percentile £284 £305 £393
25th Percentile £298 £341 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £409 £473 -
90th Percentile £750 £516 -
UK median daily rate £384 £363 £415
% change year-on-year +5.86% -12.65% +0.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +260.00%
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +260.00%

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 32,461 23,524 35,233
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.91% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,559 15,031 23,599
10th Percentile £306 £296 £270
25th Percentile £411 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,114 739 2,210
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.20 £13.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year - +2.31% -15.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £71.91
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.06 £34.25
% change year-on-year -1.63% -0.57% -14.38%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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
London -42 6 £400 -13.98% 7
North of England -59 2 £750 - 7
North East - 2 £750 - 1
South East - 2 £212 - 16
West Midlands -56 1 £290 +0.87% 2
Midlands -62 1 £290 +0.87% 5
Telecoms Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 March 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 3 (27.27%) CRM
1 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) DBS Check
2 2 (18.18%) LTE
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
2 2 (18.18%) TETRA
2 2 (18.18%) VoIP
3 1 (9.09%) Android
3 1 (9.09%) Appium
3 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Case Management
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
3 1 (9.09%) Data Management
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
3 1 (9.09%) Defect Management
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) DWDM

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) LTE
1 2 (18.18%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (18.18%) TETRA
1 2 (18.18%) VoIP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (9.09%) DWDM
2 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
2 1 (9.09%) FTP
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) SNMP
2 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (9.09%) SSH
2 1 (9.09%) TACACS
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Appium
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 11 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
2 2 (18.18%) SCADA
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) CRM
1 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Case Management
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
3 1 (9.09%) Data Management
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
3 1 (9.09%) Defect Management
3 1 (9.09%) Manual Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Network Design
3 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (9.09%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (18.18%) DBS Check
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Ericsson
2 1 (9.09%) Huawei
2 1 (9.09%) Juniper
2 1 (9.09%) Meraki
2 1 (9.09%) Nokia