PSTN Contract Job Trends in London

Public Switched Telecom Network (PSTN)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring PSTN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 378 406
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 +184
Contract jobs citing PSTN 4 1 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.029% 0.006% 0.083%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 0.067% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £367
25th Percentile £356 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £400
75th Percentile £369 - £540
90th Percentile - - £650
England median daily rate £350 £250 £438
% change year-on-year +40.00% -42.86% +16.67%

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 1,258 1,503 2,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.22% 9.54% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 931 1,484
10th Percentile £283 £256 £228
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.01% -2.59%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £711 £713 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 16 48
10th Percentile £18.79 £24.40 £19.20
25th Percentile - £30.94 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% +43.23% +19.49%
75th Percentile £43.25 £65.00 £63.06
90th Percentile £62.35 £77.54 £80.98
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.65% +36.12%

PSTN
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PSTN job vacancy trend in London

PSTN
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PSTN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PSTN

PSTN
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PSTN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PSTN

PSTN
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 29 October 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 +6 1 - -
East London - 1 £363 -
PSTN
England

PSTN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) ISDN
2 1 (25.00%) DKIM
2 1 (25.00%) DMARC
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Telephony Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) B2B
2 2 (50.00%) B2B Sales
2 2 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) VMware