Telecoms Contracts in Northern Ireland

Telecommunications
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 25 16 24
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 7 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.40% 5.37% 4.46%
As % of the General category 5.38% 10.67% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £146
25th Percentile £525 £550 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £182
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +229.63% -37.23%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £328
90th Percentile - - £409
UK median daily rate £495 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.53
25th Percentile £22.50 - £15.56
Median hourly rate £23.59 - £16.25
75th Percentile £27.39 - £17.13
90th Percentile £33.15 - £17.29
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.18% +4.76% +61.54%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 130 75 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 81.76% 50.34% 60.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 36 62
10th Percentile £153 £193 £174
25th Percentile £273 £278 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £418 £413
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +1.21% -
75th Percentile £528 £545 £497
90th Percentile £625 £650 £579
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 9
10th Percentile £15.61 - £13.88
25th Percentile £22.92 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £14.66 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.38% -5.42% +11.59%
75th Percentile £48.48 £22.50 £16.88
90th Percentile £78.47 £23.54 £18.16
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in Northern Ireland

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in Northern Ireland

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in Northern Ireland

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in Northern Ireland

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -11 7 £550 -8.33% 12
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (14.29%) Anypoint
1 1 (14.29%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Electronics
3 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 2 (28.57%) Marketing
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Ab Initio Developer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JMS
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) JWT
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
1 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (14.29%) RAML
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) Swagger
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) BYOD
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (28.57%) ETL
1 2 (28.57%) Financial Modelling
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
2 1 (14.29%) API Management
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
2 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
2 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DBS Check
2 1 (14.29%) ACCA
2 1 (14.29%) CIMA
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
1 1 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Ab Initio
3 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce