Telecoms Contracts in London

Telecommunications
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in London. 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 153 123 124
Rank change year-on-year -30 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 225 342 552
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.79% 1.92% 2.04%
As % of the General category 2.66% 3.04% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 198 395
10th Percentile £328 £278 £350
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £514 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -1.25% -0.95%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £686 £804 £750
England median daily rate £500 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 11
10th Percentile £39.63 £24.05 £20.00
25th Percentile £51.81 £27.25 £20.22
Median hourly rate £57.75 £55.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +120.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £63.56 £60.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.70 £67.50
England median hourly rate £24.17 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -56.06% +4.76% +40.00%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,474 11,265 17,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.53% 63.18% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,727 8,041 12,396
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 245 221
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.61
25th Percentile £22.72 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -10.94% -12.33%
75th Percentile £51.81 £43.75 £58.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £65.02 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in London

Telecoms
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 Telecoms 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 -18 21 £510 +13.33% 27
West London +11 14 £425 +25.93% 16
South London +11 7 - - 2
North London - 2 £270 - 2
East London +13 1 £313 -10.71% 11
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.11%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.67%) CMS
2 6 (2.67%) Confluence
3 5 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.78%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.44%) WinCC
Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.78%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.44%) InVision
4 1 (0.44%) Revit
4 1 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) Primavera
2 1 (0.44%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.44%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.89%) Azure
2 17 (7.56%) AWS
3 9 (4.00%) GCP
4 6 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.67%) OpenShift
5 4 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.78%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 4 (1.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (1.33%) BrowserStack
6 3 (1.33%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.33%) IaaS
7 2 (0.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (0.89%) Yammer
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.44%) Datadog
8 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.44%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.67%) 5G
2 23 (10.22%) Radio Access Network
3 18 (8.00%) 4G
4 16 (7.11%) Firewall
4 16 (7.11%) LTE
5 15 (6.67%) Network Security
5 15 (6.67%) Wireless
6 13 (5.78%) BGP
6 13 (5.78%) OSPF
7 12 (5.33%) 5G NR
7 12 (5.33%) VPN
8 9 (4.00%) MPLS
9 7 (3.11%) VoIP
10 6 (2.67%) EIGRP
10 6 (2.67%) LAN
10 6 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.22%) DNS
11 5 (2.22%) VSAN
11 5 (2.22%) WAN
12 4 (1.78%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (5.78%) Relational Database
2 6 (2.67%) Tableau
3 4 (1.78%) Power BI
4 3 (1.33%) GIS
5 2 (0.89%) Big Data
5 2 (0.89%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.89%) IDMS
5 2 (0.89%) MySQL
5 2 (0.89%) Power Query
6 1 (0.44%) Airbyte
6 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.44%) Looker
6 1 (0.44%) Metadata
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.33%) GitLab
3 11 (4.89%) Gradle
3 11 (4.89%) JUnit
3 11 (4.89%) Liquibase
3 11 (4.89%) Mockito
4 8 (3.56%) JIRA
5 6 (2.67%) Git
6 4 (1.78%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.33%) Appium
7 3 (1.33%) Postman
7 3 (1.33%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.89%) Snyk
8 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (28.00%) Finance
2 60 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 56 (24.89%) Marketing
4 55 (24.44%) Public Sector
5 50 (22.22%) Manufacturing
6 49 (21.78%) Electronics
7 23 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.56%) Legal
9 5 (2.22%) Banking
10 4 (1.78%) Brand Awareness
10 4 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Billing
11 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.89%) Aviation
12 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Law
13 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (14.22%) Developer
2 27 (12.00%) Senior
3 25 (11.11%) Architect
4 18 (8.00%) Network Engineer
5 17 (7.56%) Lead
6 13 (5.78%) Consultant
7 9 (4.00%) Project Manager
8 8 (3.56%) Analyst
8 8 (3.56%) Telecoms Developer
9 7 (3.11%) Angular Developer
9 7 (3.11%) React Developer
9 7 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.11%) Telecoms Manager
10 6 (2.67%) Java Developer
10 6 (2.67%) Lead Developer
10 6 (2.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 6 (2.67%) Software Engineer
10 6 (2.67%) Telecoms Architect
11 5 (2.22%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.22%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.11%) React
2 12 (5.33%) Spring
2 12 (5.33%) Spring Boot
3 11 (4.89%) Kafka
3 11 (4.89%) OpenAPI
3 11 (4.89%) Swagger
4 6 (2.67%) AngularJS
4 6 (2.67%) Node.js
5 5 (2.22%) CSS
5 5 (2.22%) HTML
5 5 (2.22%) XML
6 4 (1.78%) JSON
6 4 (1.78%) Next.js
7 3 (1.33%) .NET
7 3 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.33%) Vue
7 3 (1.33%) Web Services
8 2 (0.89%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.89%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.22%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 6 (2.67%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.22%) CCTV
6 5 (2.22%) PKI
7 4 (1.78%) IoT
7 4 (1.78%) Social Media
8 3 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.33%) NHS
8 3 (1.33%) Replication
9 2 (0.89%) Clustering
9 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.89%) FPGA
9 2 (0.89%) Verilog
9 2 (0.89%) VHDL
9 2 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.33%) Linux
2 13 (5.78%) Windows
3 4 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.33%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.89%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (31.56%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (23.11%) Agile
4 50 (22.22%) Programme Management
5 49 (21.78%) Digital Marketing
6 39 (17.33%) DevOps
7 35 (15.56%) CI/CD
8 27 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (11.56%) Migration
10 22 (9.78%) Project Management
11 20 (8.89%) Containerisation
12 18 (8.00%) High Availability
12 18 (8.00%) Software Engineering
13 16 (7.11%) Roadmaps
14 15 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
14 15 (6.67%) Microservices
15 13 (5.78%) Computer Science
15 13 (5.78%) Fault Management
15 13 (5.78%) Mentoring
15 13 (5.78%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 45 (20.00%) Python
2 29 (12.89%) SQL
3 22 (9.78%) Java
4 17 (7.56%) TypeScript
5 13 (5.78%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.78%) Bash
7 4 (1.78%) C++
8 3 (1.33%) C#
9 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.89%) Perl
9 2 (0.89%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.44%) ABAP
10 1 (0.44%) C
10 1 (0.44%) Go
10 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (15.11%) Degree
2 32 (14.22%) Security Cleared
3 26 (11.56%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.22%) CCIE
5 5 (2.22%) CISSP
5 5 (2.22%) RHCSA
6 4 (1.78%) CISM
6 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.33%) ACCA
7 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.33%) CCNA
7 3 (1.33%) CIMA
7 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.89%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.89%) PMP
8 2 (0.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.44%) QA
2 7 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.67%) SLA
4 5 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.22%) NIST
5 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.33%) GDPR
5 3 (1.33%) GRC
6 2 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.89%) DICOM
6 2 (0.89%) HL7
6 2 (0.89%) PMO
6 2 (0.89%) WCAG
7 1 (0.44%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (7.11%) Docker
2 10 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.11%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.22%) iptables
4 5 (2.22%) VMware NSX
4 5 (2.22%) vSphere
5 4 (1.78%) Firmware
6 3 (1.33%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (11.11%) Ansible
2 16 (7.11%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.00%) Terraform
4 7 (3.11%) NSN NetAct
5 4 (1.78%) Grafana
6 3 (1.33%) Cacti
6 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.33%) Nagios
6 3 (1.33%) Netcool
6 3 (1.33%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.33%) Puppet
6 3 (1.33%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.89%) SELinux
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.44%) Graylog
8 1 (0.44%) logstash
8 1 (0.44%) OfficeScan
8 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.44%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 53 (23.56%) SAP
2 42 (18.67%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.44%) Ericsson
4 17 (7.56%) Nokia
4 17 (7.56%) VMware
5 10 (4.44%) Cisco
6 9 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.00%) Splunk
7 8 (3.56%) Google
7 8 (3.56%) Red Hat
8 7 (3.11%) Fortinet
8 7 (3.11%) Oracle
8 7 (3.11%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.67%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.78%) Databricks
10 4 (1.78%) Mitel
11 3 (1.33%) EMC
11 3 (1.33%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.89%) Mavenir
12 2 (0.89%) Veracode