PSTN Contracts in London

Public Switched Telecom Network (PSTN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring PSTN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PSTN 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 343 380 486
Rank change year-on-year +37 +106 +105
Contract jobs citing PSTN 10 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.062% 0.026%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.76% 0.64% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 4
10th Percentile £376 £375 £408
25th Percentile £474 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £607 £463
Median % change year-on-year -20.92% +31.24% -6.66%
75th Percentile £513 £638 £542
90th Percentile £572 - £641
England median daily rate £475 £450 £305
% change year-on-year +5.56% +47.54% -38.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

PSTN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

PSTN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing PSTN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for PSTN in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PSTN in London.

Daily rate trend for PSTN in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for PSTN in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PSTN in London.

Hourly rate trend for PSTN in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PSTN within the London 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
Central London +3 1 £530 -12.69%
East London - 1 £480 -
South London - 1 £478 -
PSTN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
1 6 (60.00%) VoIP
2 5 (50.00%) LAN
2 5 (50.00%) MPLS
2 5 (50.00%) VPN
2 5 (50.00%) WAN
3 4 (40.00%) ISDN
4 3 (30.00%) 4G
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (20.00%) Internet
5 2 (20.00%) IPsec
5 2 (20.00%) NGFW
5 2 (20.00%) Wireless
6 1 (10.00%) Intranet
6 1 (10.00%) PBX
6 1 (10.00%) RTP
6 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
6 1 (10.00%) WebEx
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Local Government
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Network Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Telephony Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Telephony Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Network Design
3 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Contract Management
5 1 (10.00%) Contract Negotiation
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Server Building
5 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCNA
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Avaya Certification
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Aruba
3 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (20.00%) F5
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) Avaya
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft