Telecoms Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Test Engineer - Telecommunications
England > London

The median Test Engineer - Telecommunications daily rate in London is £359, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Telecoms Test Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £315 - -
25th Percentile £330 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 - -
75th Percentile £390 - -
90th Percentile £407 - -
England median daily rate £359 - £405

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 13,004 14,917 18,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 93.75% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,617 9,680 13,598
10th Percentile £334 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -2.25% -2.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £790
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 164 218
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.11
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.54 £37.50 £36.59
Median % change year-on-year -29.24% +2.49% +4.54%
75th Percentile £49.56 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +41.28%

Telecoms Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Telecoms Test Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Telecoms Test Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Telecoms Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Telecoms Test Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Telecoms Test Engineer job vacancies in London

Telecoms Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Telecoms Test Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Telecoms Test Engineer job vacancies in London

Telecoms Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, Telecoms Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Telecoms Test Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO

Telecoms Test Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) TACACS
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki