Telecoms Contracts in the North of England

Telecommunications
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 99 85 149
Rank change year-on-year -14 +64 0
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 68 107 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.06% 2.24% 1.22%
As % of the General category 3.49% 4.09% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 61 46
10th Percentile £320 £256 £331
25th Percentile £400 £300 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +39.67% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £573 £450 £584
90th Percentile £708 £738 £694
England median daily rate £500 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.15 £20.22
Median hourly rate - £12.30 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - -40.59% -
75th Percentile - £12.45 £21.19
90th Percentile - £13.81 -
England median hourly rate £24.17 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -56.06% +4.76% +40.00%

All General Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,947 2,614 3,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.09% 54.82% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,539 2,212
10th Percentile £255 £256 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -3.41% +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £600
90th Percentile £662 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 310 96
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.11 £14.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.30 £17.60
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.06 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.67% -35.76% +33.69%
75th Percentile £39.75 £27.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £48.75 £53.17
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the North of England

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +8 47 £525 +50.00% 116
Yorkshire -24 12 £550 +22.22% 55
North East +2 9 £419 -14.97% 17
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (16.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.88%) Azure
2 11 (16.18%) Entra ID
2 11 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (14.71%) AWS
3 10 (14.71%) IaaS
4 8 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.94%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) Firewall
1 11 (16.18%) Intrusion Detection
1 11 (16.18%) Network Security
2 5 (7.35%) BGP
2 5 (7.35%) MPLS
3 3 (4.41%) DNS
3 3 (4.41%) EIGRP
3 3 (4.41%) IPv4
3 3 (4.41%) OSPF
3 3 (4.41%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (4.41%) SD-WAN
3 3 (4.41%) WAN
4 2 (2.94%) GPON
4 2 (2.94%) IPv6
5 1 (1.47%) ADSL
5 1 (1.47%) Broadband
5 1 (1.47%) LAN
5 1 (1.47%) PBX
5 1 (1.47%) PSTN
5 1 (1.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (14.71%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Gradle
1 10 (14.71%) Jenkins
1 10 (14.71%) JUnit
1 10 (14.71%) Liquibase
1 10 (14.71%) Mockito
2 9 (13.24%) GitLab
3 4 (5.88%) Git
4 3 (4.41%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.41%) Selenium
5 2 (2.94%) REST Assured
General
1 21 (30.88%) Public Sector
2 20 (29.41%) Finance
2 20 (29.41%) Marketing
3 19 (27.94%) Electronics
3 19 (27.94%) Manufacturing
4 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
5 12 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (11.76%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Billing
7 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (14.71%) Analyst
2 8 (11.76%) Architect
3 7 (10.29%) Developer
3 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 7 (10.29%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (7.35%) Java Developer
4 5 (7.35%) Java Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) React Developer
4 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Software Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) 1st Line Support
5 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Lead
5 4 (5.88%) Telecoms Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) Help Desk Support Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) Kafka
1 10 (14.71%) OpenAPI
1 10 (14.71%) React
1 10 (14.71%) Spring
1 10 (14.71%) Spring Boot
1 10 (14.71%) Swagger
2 2 (2.94%) CSS
2 2 (2.94%) HTML
2 2 (2.94%) Jest
2 2 (2.94%) Node.js
2 2 (2.94%) pytest
2 2 (2.94%) Sass
3 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.47%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.47%) IVR
2 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.47%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.59%) Windows
1 14 (20.59%) Windows Server
2 5 (7.35%) Linux
3 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.47%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (27.94%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (27.94%) Digital Marketing
2 19 (27.94%) Programme Management
3 18 (26.47%) Change Management
4 17 (25.00%) Agile
4 17 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 14 (20.59%) DevOps
6 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
7 12 (17.65%) Microservices
7 12 (17.65%) TDD
8 11 (16.18%) Business Continuity
8 11 (16.18%) Migration
8 11 (16.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 10 (14.71%) Containerisation
9 10 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (14.71%) ITIL
10 8 (11.76%) BCP
10 8 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (11.76%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.12%) Java
1 13 (19.12%) PowerShell
1 13 (19.12%) SQL
2 10 (14.71%) TypeScript
3 4 (5.88%) Bash
4 3 (4.41%) Perl
4 3 (4.41%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.94%) Python
6 1 (1.47%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 23 (33.82%) SC Cleared
1 23 (33.82%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.47%) Azure Certification
3 17 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (14.71%) Degree
5 7 (10.29%) AWS Certification
5 7 (10.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) SLA
3 2 (2.94%) WCAG
4 1 (1.47%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 14 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 12 (17.65%) Docker
3 11 (16.18%) vSphere
4 9 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.88%) Terraform
3 2 (2.94%) Grafana
3 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (30.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (27.94%) SAP
3 11 (16.18%) VMware
4 8 (11.76%) Cisco
5 7 (10.29%) Google
6 3 (4.41%) BMC
6 3 (4.41%) Huawei
6 3 (4.41%) Oracle
6 3 (4.41%) Remedy
7 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.47%) Avaya
8 1 (1.47%) Ericsson
8 1 (1.47%) Genesys
8 1 (1.47%) Mitel
8 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.47%) Siemens