Telecoms Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Test Engineer - Telecommunications
UK > England

The median Test Engineer - Telecommunications daily rate in England is £359, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 518 580
Rank change year-on-year -24 +62 +192
Contract jobs requiring a Telecoms Test Engineer 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.013% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.014% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £315 - -
25th Percentile £330 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 - £405
75th Percentile £390 - -
90th Percentile £407 - -
UK median daily rate £359 - £405

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 27,745 29,203 36,890
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 92.93% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,747 17,857 25,486
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,697 1,114 1,429
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.12 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +41.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%

Telecoms Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Telecoms Test Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Telecoms Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Telecoms Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Telecoms Test 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 Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 November 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
London - 2 £359 - 2
Telecoms Test Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, Telecoms Test 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO

Telecoms Test 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 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) TACACS
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki