Telecoms Contracts in Hertfordshire

Telecommunications
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 38 44
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 0
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 14 37 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.36% 4.44% 3.70%
As % of the General category 7.14% 7.13% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 16
10th Percentile £335 £273 £363
25th Percentile £465 £350 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £559
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -32.86% +5.13%
75th Percentile £625 £500 £700
90th Percentile - £618 -
East of England median daily rate £400 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +6.67% -21.05% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £66.63
25th Percentile - - £67.19
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - -49.09% +4.56%
75th Percentile - - £69.69
90th Percentile - - £69.88
East of England median hourly rate - £11.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -78.10% -7.08%

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

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 common skills in Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 196 519 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 61.06% 62.23% 55.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 144 229
10th Percentile £343 £200 £228
25th Percentile £425 £330 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £406 £525
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -22.62% +16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £675
90th Percentile £675 £700 £807
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 241 94
10th Percentile £17.53 - £41.80
25th Percentile £40.06 £38.12 £53.56
Median hourly rate £61.00 £46.56 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -22.41% +22.45%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £21.00
% change year-on-year -17.00% +81.52% +44.83%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in Hertfordshire

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in Hertfordshire

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Hertfordshire

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in Hertfordshire

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Stevenage +22 2 £540 +35.00% 20
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - - 3
Hitchin - 1 £575 -
Telecoms
East of England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (14.29%) Skype for Business
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Cohesity
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) OCI
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (14.29%) 3GPP
2 2 (14.29%) 4G
2 2 (14.29%) 5G
2 2 (14.29%) IMAP
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) Skype
2 2 (14.29%) SMTP
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Selenium
1 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Electronics
2 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Marketing
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Messaging Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Product Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Exchange Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Messaging Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) REST
1 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 2 (14.29%) Swagger
3 1 (7.14%) Matplotlib
3 1 (7.14%) NumPy
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (7.14%) Pandas
3 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
3 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
3 1 (7.14%) Seaborn
3 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Blackberry
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
1 4 (28.57%) Data Science
1 4 (28.57%) Feature Engineering
1 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
1 4 (28.57%) LLM
1 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
1 4 (28.57%) Reinforcement Learning
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (21.43%) Microservices
3 2 (14.29%) API Development
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
3 2 (14.29%) Scrum
3 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) C++
3 2 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ITGC
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) NetApp
1 2 (14.29%) SAP
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle