Telecoms Contracts in Leeds

Telecommunications
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Leeds. 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 51 37 82
Rank change year-on-year -14 +45 +23
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 9 26 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.94% 3.25% 1.05%
As % of the General category 3.42% 6.25% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 10
10th Percentile £425 £300 £397
25th Percentile £463 £375 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -12.20% +28.13%
75th Percentile £575 - £550
90th Percentile - - £570
West Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +19.44% -14.29% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 0
Median hourly rate - £12.30 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £12.30 -

All General Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 263 416 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 56.56% 52.07% 60.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 245 599
10th Percentile £240 £264 £363
25th Percentile £340 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £631
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -5.61% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 34 6
10th Percentile £31.59 £11.87 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.76 £12.15 £13.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -28.89% -21.59%
75th Percentile £96.64 £15.19 £57.00
90th Percentile £97.79 - £70.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £13.50 £17.24
% change year-on-year +83.85% -21.69% -7.81%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in Leeds

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in Leeds

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Leeds

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) 1st Line Support
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Designer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (11.11%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) ITSM
2 4 (44.44%) Service Management
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Server Management
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Security Management
4 2 (22.22%) SOA
4 2 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Product Management
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Storytelling
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) User Experience
5 1 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) Perl
1 3 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Avaya
2 1 (11.11%) Genesys