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 21 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -43 0 +35
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 1 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.13% 3.91% 4.66%
As % of the General category 0.35% 5.51% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 8
10th Percentile - £325 £218
25th Percentile - £369 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £790 £400 £560
Median % change year-on-year +97.50% -28.57% +180.00%
75th Percentile - £528 £788
90th Percentile - £618 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £400 £560
% change year-on-year +31.25% -28.57% +176.54%

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 287 127 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 37.86% 70.95% 57.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 88 144
10th Percentile £312 £255 £213
25th Percentile £413 £372 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £464 £468
Median % change year-on-year +13.15% -0.75% -0.45%
75th Percentile £600 £567 £600
90th Percentile £638 £725 £725
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +10.53% +2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 12
10th Percentile £17.83 £14.08 £17.64
25th Percentile - £14.98 £17.91
Median hourly rate £18.32 £15.31 £22.54
Median % change year-on-year +19.66% -32.08% +66.10%
75th Percentile - £28.81 £23.97
90th Percentile £22.47 £58.63 £29.44
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £22.50 £14.20 £23.82
% change year-on-year +58.45% -40.39% -15.03%

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
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) ICMP
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware