Telecoms Contract Job Trends in Essex

Telecommunications
East of England > Essex

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 20 20
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 8 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.31% 1.65% 1.54%
As % of the General category 4.79% 3.17% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £365 £325 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £330 £725
Median % change year-on-year +26.52% -54.48% +11.54%
75th Percentile £483 £335 £738
90th Percentile £514 - -
East of England median daily rate £195 £375 £400
% change year-on-year -48.00% -6.25% -13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £15.95 - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
75th Percentile £18.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.50 £18.38 £41.78
% change year-on-year -4.76% -56.02% +15.26%

All General Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 167 63 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 48.27% 52.07% 56.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 34 40
10th Percentile £338 £166 £255
25th Percentile £381 £227 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £400 £363
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% +10.34% -30.95%
75th Percentile £593 £510 £505
90th Percentile £600 £624 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 13 8
10th Percentile £15.05 - £18.79
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.25 £21.88
Median hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -55.45% -27.86%
75th Percentile £21.27 £50.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £35.53 £74.30 £66.95
East of England median hourly rate £27.96 £30.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -6.80% -21.30% +115.12%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Essex

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in Essex over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Essex

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Essex region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Chelmsford - 6 £325 - 3
Colchester - 1 - - 1
Telecoms
East of England

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (25.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) LAN
1 6 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) BGP
2 2 (25.00%) MPLS
2 2 (25.00%) SNMP
2 2 (25.00%) TACACS
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (12.50%) Broadband
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Technician
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Technician
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Technician
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) IP Network Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Network Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (25.00%) OpenConfig
1 2 (25.00%) RESTCONF
1 2 (25.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 4 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Network Design
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Business Development
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Fintech
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CCIE
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) JNCIE
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) GoCardless
3 1 (12.50%) Google