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 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 488 529
Rank change year-on-year -39 +41 +188
Contract jobs requiring a Telecoms Engineer 15 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.047% 0.046% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.050% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £284 £289 £153
25th Percentile £298 £300 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £356 £428
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -16.67% +6.88%
75th Percentile £409 £436 £450
90th Percentile £750 £502 -
UK median daily rate £384 £313 £390
% change year-on-year +22.80% -19.87% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £21.08 - -
25th Percentile £21.56 - -
Median hourly rate £23.38 £75.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.83% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £26.19 - -
90th Percentile £27.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.38 £75.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year -68.83% -16.67% -

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 28,978 26,109 33,858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.40% 92.88% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,528 16,189 23,132
10th Percentile £300 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
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 1,750 814 1,430
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% -23.71% +40.01%
75th Percentile £61.23 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.41 £74.31 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +41.93%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -11 6 £400 -13.98% 2
South East -8 3 £212 -
West Midlands -33 3 £290 +0.87%
Midlands -39 3 £290 +0.87%
North East - 2 £750 - 2
North of England - 2 £750 - 3
East of England -16 1 - - 1
Telecoms Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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%) Power BI
1 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) CRM
2 3 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) VoIP
3 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (13.33%) CCNA
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) LTE
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (13.33%) TETRA
4 1 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (6.67%) Android
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (6.67%) Appium
4 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (6.67%) Broadband
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence

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%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Dataform
2 1 (6.67%) dbt
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) VoIP
2 2 (13.33%) LTE
2 2 (13.33%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (13.33%) TETRA
3 1 (6.67%) Broadband
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (6.67%) DWDM
3 1 (6.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (6.67%) FTP
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) SNMP
3 1 (6.67%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (6.67%) SSH
3 1 (6.67%) TACACS
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Appium
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 15 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (13.33%) SCADA
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) CRM
1 3 (20.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (6.67%) Data Management
3 1 (6.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (6.67%) Data Transformation
3 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (6.67%) ETL
3 1 (6.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (6.67%) Network Design
3 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (6.67%) Validation
3 1 (6.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (6.67%) WFM
3 1 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (13.33%) CCNA
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Ericsson
2 1 (6.67%) Huawei
2 1 (6.67%) Juniper
2 1 (6.67%) Meraki
2 1 (6.67%) Nokia