Telecoms Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Telecommunications
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 34 26
Rank change year-on-year -35 -8 +28
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 4 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.51% 1.69% 5.61%
As % of the General category 1.29% 2.55% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £629 £339 £257
25th Percentile £711 £388 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £464 £560
Median % change year-on-year +64.42% -17.19% +180.00%
75th Percentile £774 £573 -
90th Percentile £784 £672 £646
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £763 £464 £450
% change year-on-year +64.42% +3.06% +119.51%

All General Skills
Milton Keynes

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 general skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 311 157 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 39.77% 66.53% 60.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 108 119
10th Percentile £325 £211 £209
25th Percentile £437 £350 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £428 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.81% -5.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £555
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +22.09% -4.44% -8.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 5
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.08 £18.16
25th Percentile - £14.98 £22.58
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.31 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.30% -48.97% +121.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £18.00 £36.75
90th Percentile - £28.73 £37.50
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £22.50 £14.20 £27.50
% change year-on-year +58.45% -48.36% +102.65%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Telecoms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Telecoms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Milton Keynes

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Telecoms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) IPsec
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) MPLS
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
1 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) ICMP
2 1 (25.00%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
1 3 (75.00%) Lead Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leader
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Network Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (75.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (75.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) CCNP
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (50.00%) CCIE
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) F5
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Google