Telecoms Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Telecommunications
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Ipswich. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +20
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 21 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 16.28% 15.63% 34.21%
As % of the General category 45.65% 31.25% 61.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 5
10th Percentile - £139 £324
25th Percentile £313 £178 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £245 £400
Median % change year-on-year +47.96% -38.75% +3.23%
75th Percentile £400 £313 £538
90th Percentile £428 £352 -
Suffolk median daily rate £365 £350 £525
% change year-on-year +4.21% -33.33% +35.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.00 -
Suffolk median hourly rate - £16.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year - -67.05% -

All General Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 46 16 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 35.66% 50.00% 55.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 9
10th Percentile £320 £141 £350
25th Percentile £384 £318 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -39.29%
75th Percentile £519 £556 £538
90th Percentile - £618 £540
Suffolk median daily rate £450 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +28.57% -22.22% -30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £15.21 £16.19 -
25th Percentile £16.01 £17.22 -
Median hourly rate £17.12 £17.79 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% - -
75th Percentile £18.75 £18.07 -
90th Percentile - £18.58 -
Suffolk median hourly rate £15.70 £18.36 £48.56
% change year-on-year -14.49% -62.20% +181.02%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 3 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) Broadband
2 8 (38.10%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (33.33%) 5G
3 7 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 6 (28.57%) 4G
4 6 (28.57%) IPv4
4 6 (28.57%) IPv6
5 4 (19.05%) DNS
5 4 (19.05%) HTTP
5 4 (19.05%) SSH
5 4 (19.05%) VoIP
6 3 (14.29%) RTP
6 3 (14.29%) Wireless
6 3 (14.29%) xDSL
7 2 (9.52%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (9.52%) PPP
7 2 (9.52%) RTCP
7 2 (9.52%) UPnP
7 2 (9.52%) Wireshark
8 1 (4.76%) INAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
1 4 (19.05%) MySQL
1 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
1 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (19.05%) Redis
2 3 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (14.29%) Hazelcast
3 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Git
2 9 (42.86%) GitLab
3 7 (33.33%) JIRA
4 6 (28.57%) Selenium
5 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.76%) JMeter
6 1 (4.76%) Locust
6 1 (4.76%) Robot Framework
6 1 (4.76%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (4.76%) Legal
1 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Broadband Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Test Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Python Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Customer Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) QA Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Automation Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Architect
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Voice Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) CSS
2 4 (19.05%) FastAPI
2 4 (19.05%) Flask
2 4 (19.05%) HTML
2 4 (19.05%) Jinja
2 4 (19.05%) Pandas
2 4 (19.05%) REST
3 3 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (14.29%) Playwright
3 3 (14.29%) pytest
3 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (14.29%) RESTful
3 3 (14.29%) Servlets
4 2 (9.52%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (9.52%) WebRTC
5 1 (4.76%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (9.52%) IoT
1 2 (9.52%) Replication
1 2 (9.52%) Wiki
2 1 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) VMS
3 1 (4.76%) CentOS
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Test Automation
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 5 (23.81%) Scrum
5 5 (23.81%) Validation
6 4 (19.05%) AI
6 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 3 (14.29%) API Integration
7 3 (14.29%) Application Packaging
7 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 3 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (14.29%) High Availability
7 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (14.29%) SIEM
7 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Bash
2 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) MOS
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) QA
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Check_MK
1 3 (14.29%) Grafana
1 3 (14.29%) Podman
1 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Metaswitch
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle
1 3 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) Dialogic
2 1 (4.76%) Google