Telecoms Contract Job Trends in England

Telecommunications
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 93 66
Rank change year-on-year -84 -27 +12
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 679 734 1,164
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 2.71% 3.17%
As % of the General category 2.75% 4.24% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 439 566
10th Percentile £213 £313 £205
25th Percentile £397 £401 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% -2.01%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £623
90th Percentile £694 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 101
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.58 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.73 £14.00 £13.85
Median hourly rate £24.50 £15.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.06% -74.17% +34.83%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.88 £72.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £64.20 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £21.88 £51.78
% change year-on-year +12.00% -57.75% +0.54%

All General Skills
England

Telecoms falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,681 17,301 21,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.17% 63.77% 57.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,862 11,088 13,439
10th Percentile £313 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -3.85% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,804 896 1,708
10th Percentile £14.36 £13.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £19.24 £16.48 £16.06
Median hourly rate £34.00 £26.75 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -21.16% +11.10%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.20 £56.49
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £26.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +24.53% -19.44% +7.71%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Telecoms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Telecoms job vacancy trend in England

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Telecoms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in England

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Telecoms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in England

Telecoms
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 15 July 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 -32 294 £507 +4.00% 172
South East -54 186 £465 -7.00% 200
North of England -60 60 £533 +6.50% 123
South West -60 48 £450 -14.29% 56
Midlands -58 40 £473 +23.93% 91
East of England -12 35 £175 -54.84% 60
West Midlands -70 34 £450 +28.57% 52
North West -45 32 £550 +4.76% 72
Yorkshire -44 23 £600 +54.84% 42
East Midlands -9 6 £500 -20.00% 39
North East -35 5 £500 - 11
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
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 13 (1.91%) OpenStack
2 10 (1.47%) Confluence
3 7 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.03%) ArcGIS
4 6 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.74%) Appian
6 4 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.44%) IIS
7 3 (0.44%) JBoss
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.44%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.44%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.29%) Apache
8 2 (0.29%) CMS
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 24 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.74%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.29%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Revit
7 1 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (2.65%) SAP PSCD
2 14 (2.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (1.91%) SAP BRIM
4 12 (1.77%) SAP Hybris
5 5 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.74%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.59%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.59%) Remedy AR System
7 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.44%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.29%) SAP FI-CA
9 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.15%) SAP SRM
9 1 (0.15%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 67 (9.87%) Azure
2 66 (9.72%) AWS
3 46 (6.77%) GCP
4 19 (2.80%) Power Platform
5 16 (2.36%) SaaS
6 14 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (2.06%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 10 (1.47%) Snowflake
8 9 (1.33%) dbt
9 7 (1.03%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.03%) GitHub
9 7 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (0.88%) OpenShift
10 6 (0.88%) Serverless
11 5 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.74%) Cloud Functions
11 5 (0.74%) Fivetran
11 5 (0.74%) Prefect
12 4 (0.59%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 55 (8.10%) 5G
2 51 (7.51%) WAN
3 43 (6.33%) 4G
4 42 (6.19%) LAN
5 39 (5.74%) Radio Access Network
6 37 (5.45%) MPLS
7 32 (4.71%) Firewall
8 28 (4.12%) BGP
9 27 (3.98%) SD-WAN
10 21 (3.09%) 3G
11 20 (2.95%) VoIP
11 20 (2.95%) VPN
12 19 (2.80%) DNS
12 19 (2.80%) OSPF
13 17 (2.50%) 3GPP
13 17 (2.50%) LTE
14 16 (2.36%) Network Security
14 16 (2.36%) Structured Cabling
14 16 (2.36%) TCP/IP
14 16 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.65%) Power BI
2 16 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.06%) BigQuery
4 12 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (1.77%) Looker
5 11 (1.62%) Tableau
6 7 (1.03%) GIS
6 7 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.74%) Big Data
7 5 (0.74%) MySQL
8 4 (0.59%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.44%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.44%) SAP BW
9 3 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (0.44%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (3.39%) JIRA
2 6 (0.88%) Git
3 4 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.29%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.15%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) JMeter
6 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 192 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 117 (17.23%) Finance
3 95 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 40 (5.89%) Billing
6 26 (3.83%) Retail
7 24 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (2.65%) Legal
8 18 (2.65%) Marketing
8 18 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.18%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.03%) Electronics
11 7 (1.03%) Police
12 6 (0.88%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.44%) Military
13 3 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (15.76%) Architect
2 58 (8.54%) Lead
3 57 (8.39%) Consultant
3 57 (8.39%) Senior
4 53 (7.81%) Analyst
5 38 (5.60%) Telecoms Manager
6 37 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
7 35 (5.15%) Project Manager
8 27 (3.98%) Network Engineer
9 26 (3.83%) Designer
10 25 (3.68%) ServiceNow Architect
11 24 (3.53%) Data Engineer
11 24 (3.53%) Developer
12 22 (3.24%) Enterprise Architect
13 20 (2.95%) Telecoms Architect
14 18 (2.65%) SAP Consultant
15 17 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
16 16 (2.36%) Programme Manager
17 15 (2.21%) Process Consultant
17 15 (2.21%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.74%) REST
2 30 (4.42%) SOAP
3 13 (1.91%) ONVIF
4 12 (1.77%) Kafka
5 10 (1.47%) NETCONF
5 10 (1.47%) YANG
6 9 (1.33%) .NET
7 7 (1.03%) Middleware
7 7 (1.03%) RESTful
8 6 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.59%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.59%) OpenAPI
9 4 (0.59%) OpenConfig
9 4 (0.59%) RESTCONF
9 4 (0.59%) Swagger
9 4 (0.59%) Web Services
10 3 (0.44%) HTML
10 3 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.44%) RFC 2544
10 3 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.77%) CMDB
2 43 (6.33%) Data Centre
3 31 (4.57%) Cloud Native
4 26 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 15 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.06%) Driving Licence
10 13 (1.91%) Video\Live Streaming
11 10 (1.47%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.47%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.33%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.18%) EPoS
14 6 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 6 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.88%) TM Forum
14 6 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.71%) Windows
2 25 (3.68%) Linux
3 14 (2.06%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.62%) Unix
5 6 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.29%) OpenVMS
8 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.29%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (18.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 102 (15.02%) Agile
3 91 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (11.93%) ITIL
5 59 (8.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 57 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (8.25%) Roadmaps
8 54 (7.95%) Migration
9 53 (7.81%) Service Management
10 51 (7.51%) CRM
10 51 (7.51%) Decision-Making
11 50 (7.36%) ITSM
12 49 (7.22%) Project Delivery
13 48 (7.07%) Customer Service
14 47 (6.92%) AI
14 47 (6.92%) Project Management
15 46 (6.77%) Analytics
15 46 (6.77%) Validation
16 44 (6.48%) CI/CD
17 39 (5.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 55 (8.10%) Python
2 35 (5.15%) SQL
3 20 (2.95%) JavaScript
4 12 (1.77%) Java
5 8 (1.18%) C#
6 7 (1.03%) Bash
6 7 (1.03%) R
7 6 (0.88%) C++
8 4 (0.59%) ABAP
8 4 (0.59%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.44%) LookML
9 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.29%) DCL
10 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.29%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) Ada
11 1 (0.15%) C
11 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.15%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 121 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 86 (12.67%) SC Cleared
3 63 (9.28%) Degree
4 43 (6.33%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (3.53%) CCNA
6 22 (3.24%) CCNP
6 22 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (2.95%) A+ Certification
9 14 (2.06%) PMP
10 13 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.91%) MCSA
11 12 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.77%) CCIE
12 11 (1.62%) PMI Certification
13 9 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
14 8 (1.18%) AWS Certification
14 8 (1.18%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.88%) JNCIE
16 5 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.95%) NCSC
2 18 (2.65%) SLA
3 16 (2.36%) GRC
4 15 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.06%) QA
6 13 (1.91%) GDPR
7 11 (1.62%) PMO
8 6 (0.88%) NIST
9 3 (0.44%) RMADS
10 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS
11 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.15%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.77%) Docker
3 11 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.18%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.74%) vSphere
6 4 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.15%) Ceph
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.24%) Terraform
3 18 (2.65%) Ansible
4 9 (1.33%) Grafana
4 9 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.44%) Amdocs OSS
6 3 (0.44%) Iperf
6 3 (0.44%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.44%) vRealize
7 2 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.29%) Nmap
7 2 (0.29%) NSN NetAct
8 1 (0.15%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.15%) Podman
8 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 78 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 73 (10.75%) ServiceNow
3 56 (8.25%) Cisco
4 29 (4.27%) Nokia
5 26 (3.83%) SAP
6 25 (3.68%) Salesforce
7 22 (3.24%) Ericsson
7 22 (3.24%) Fortinet
8 20 (2.95%) VMware
9 18 (2.65%) Juniper
10 17 (2.50%) BT
10 17 (2.50%) F5
10 17 (2.50%) Oracle
10 17 (2.50%) Remedy
11 15 (2.21%) Huawei
12 14 (2.06%) Google
13 13 (1.91%) BMC
14 11 (1.62%) CheckPoint
15 10 (1.47%) Palo Alto
16 8 (1.18%) Arista
658 Telecoms jobs in England