Telecoms Contracts in the North West

Telecommunications
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 73 81 112
Rank change year-on-year +8 +31 +5
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 47 56 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.39% 2.03% 1.41%
As % of the General category 4.16% 3.79% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 39 27
10th Percentile £359 £256 £370
25th Percentile £405 £309 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £517 £600
90th Percentile £716 £738 £693
England median daily rate £500 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.22
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +8.67% -
75th Percentile - - £21.19
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.17 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -56.06% +4.76% +40.00%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,131 1,478 1,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.47% 53.65% 51.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 905 1,142
10th Percentile £265 £300 £305
25th Percentile £380 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 191 82
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £14.88
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.50 £19.28
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £49.06 £36.72 £38.39
90th Percentile £75.38 £51.91 £52.90
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the North West

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the North West

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the North West

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the North West

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +7 40 £516 +47.50% 77
Cheshire +3 4 £650 - 19
Merseyside +2 3 £525 +103.88% 5
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (23.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (38.30%) Azure
2 11 (23.40%) Entra ID
2 11 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (21.28%) IaaS
4 7 (14.89%) AWS
4 7 (14.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.40%) Firewall
1 11 (23.40%) Intrusion Detection
1 11 (23.40%) Network Security
2 5 (10.64%) BGP
2 5 (10.64%) MPLS
3 3 (6.38%) EIGRP
3 3 (6.38%) IPv4
3 3 (6.38%) OSPF
3 3 (6.38%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (6.38%) SD-WAN
3 3 (6.38%) WAN
4 2 (4.26%) GPON
4 2 (4.26%) IPv6
5 1 (2.13%) LAN
5 1 (2.13%) PBX
5 1 (2.13%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
2 10 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (21.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Gradle
1 10 (21.28%) Jenkins
1 10 (21.28%) JUnit
1 10 (21.28%) Liquibase
1 10 (21.28%) Mockito
2 5 (10.64%) GitLab
General
1 12 (25.53%) Public Sector
2 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Finance
3 10 (21.28%) Electronics
3 10 (21.28%) Manufacturing
3 10 (21.28%) Marketing
4 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
5 7 (14.89%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Billing
6 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (19.15%) Analyst
2 8 (17.02%) Architect
3 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 7 (14.89%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Java Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) React Developer
4 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Help Desk Support
5 3 (6.38%) Help Desk Support Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Operations Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Technical Support
5 3 (6.38%) Technical Support Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Telecoms Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) Kafka
1 10 (21.28%) OpenAPI
1 10 (21.28%) React
1 10 (21.28%) Spring
1 10 (21.28%) Spring Boot
1 10 (21.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Windows
1 11 (23.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Change Management
2 17 (36.17%) Software Engineering
3 15 (31.91%) Agile
4 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (23.40%) Business Continuity
5 11 (23.40%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 10 (21.28%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
6 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
6 10 (21.28%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (21.28%) DevOps
6 10 (21.28%) Digital Marketing
6 10 (21.28%) Microservices
6 10 (21.28%) Migration
6 10 (21.28%) Programme Management
6 10 (21.28%) TDD
7 8 (17.02%) BCP
7 8 (17.02%) Business Continuity Planning
7 8 (17.02%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (17.02%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) PowerShell
2 10 (21.28%) Java
2 10 (21.28%) SQL
2 10 (21.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (38.30%) Azure Certification
2 17 (36.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (34.04%) SC Cleared
3 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
4 10 (21.28%) Degree
5 7 (14.89%) AWS Certification
5 7 (14.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (14.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.38%) CCNP
6 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Active Directory
1 11 (23.40%) vSphere
2 10 (21.28%) Docker
3 9 (19.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (42.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.40%) VMware
3 10 (21.28%) SAP
4 7 (14.89%) Google
5 5 (10.64%) Cisco
6 3 (6.38%) BMC
6 3 (6.38%) Huawei
6 3 (6.38%) Remedy
7 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.13%) Ericsson
8 1 (2.13%) Mitel
8 1 (2.13%) Siemens