Telecoms Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Telecommunications
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 28 24 50
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 -5
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 8 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.59% 1.43% 0.61%
As % of the General category 6.20% 2.73% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £305 £385 £274
25th Percentile £328 £388 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £403 £311
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +29.32% -40.71%
75th Percentile £535 £413 £341
90th Percentile £573 £414 £348
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £419 £410 £288
% change year-on-year +2.13% +42.61% +43.75%

All General Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 129 110 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 57.85% 52.38% 47.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 65 125
10th Percentile £263 £372 £311
25th Percentile £357 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -7.08% +13.00%
75th Percentile £527 £600 £675
90th Percentile £601 £690 £757
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £523 £565
% change year-on-year -13.88% -7.52% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 0
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.25 -
25th Percentile £24.06 £19.56 -
Median hourly rate £34.25 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.89% - -
75th Percentile £43.56 £51.56 -
90th Percentile £48.63 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £14.07 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -19.60% - -

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in Newcastle upon Tyne

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in Newcastle upon Tyne

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Newcastle upon Tyne

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in Newcastle upon Tyne

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Kong
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (100.00%) Electronics
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 8 (100.00%) Marketing
1 8 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Lead DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) Jest
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) pytest
1 2 (25.00%) Sass
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 8 (100.00%) Programme Management
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) SAP