Telecoms Contracts in the North East

Telecommunications
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in the North East. 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 29 31 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 -7
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 9 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.81% 2.07% 1.18%
As % of the General category 4.86% 3.95% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £305 £389 £213
25th Percentile £328 £399 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £493 £335
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +47.01% +71.79%
75th Percentile £535 £616 £413
90th Percentile £573 £666 £458
England median daily rate £500 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -1.00%

All General Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 185 177 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 57.81% 52.37% 49.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 88 167
10th Percentile £244 £189 £231
25th Percentile £355 £402 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £523 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -2.79% +10.54%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £625
90th Percentile £617 £720 £732
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 40 0
10th Percentile - £11.41 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £11.64 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.49% - -
75th Percentile £18.72 £46.69 -
90th Percentile £22.64 £49.88 -
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 the North East

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the North East

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear -1 8 £419 +2.13% 6
Northumberland - 1 - - 1
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) Kong
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
General
1 8 (88.89%) Electronics
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
1 8 (88.89%) Manufacturing
1 8 (88.89%) Marketing
1 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
1 2 (22.22%) Jest
1 2 (22.22%) Node.js
1 2 (22.22%) pytest
1 2 (22.22%) Sass
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Digital Marketing
1 8 (88.89%) Programme Management
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) BDD
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) WCAG
2 1 (11.11%) NEBOSH
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) SAP