Telecoms Contracts in Reading

Telecommunications
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Reading. 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 2 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 156 193 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 26.13% 16.19% 16.81%
As % of the General category 38.61% 26.73% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 47 65
10th Percentile £363 £284 £288
25th Percentile £450 £405 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £448 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -0.44% +8.43%
75th Percentile £700 £510 £598
90th Percentile - £533 £740
Berkshire median daily rate £491 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +15.47% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £25.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +145.98% +11.11% -13.46%

All General Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 404 722 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 67.67% 60.57% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 341 397
10th Percentile £319 £205 £363
25th Percentile £450 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £675
90th Percentile £700 £675 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +0.70% -2.91% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 41 9
10th Percentile - £42.00 £39.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £52.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £61.60 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -52.92% -4.75% +130.98%
75th Percentile - £76.99 £66.21
90th Percentile - £87.53 £70.80
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.50 £59.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +161.59%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 4 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.28%) Appian
2 2 (1.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.64%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 24 (15.38%) Azure
2 7 (4.49%) AWS
2 7 (4.49%) GCP
3 5 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (3.21%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.56%) Azure AKS
4 4 (2.56%) OpenShift
5 3 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.28%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.28%) Figma
6 2 (1.28%) Serverless
6 2 (1.28%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.64%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.64%) Collibra
7 1 (0.64%) dbt
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.97%) Radio Access Network
2 12 (7.69%) 5G
3 10 (6.41%) 3G
3 10 (6.41%) 4G
4 9 (5.77%) MPLS
5 8 (5.13%) LTE
6 6 (3.85%) Broadband
6 6 (3.85%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (3.85%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.85%) VLAN
7 5 (3.21%) BGP
7 5 (3.21%) Ethernet
7 5 (3.21%) Network Security
8 4 (2.56%) 2G
8 4 (2.56%) 3GPP
8 4 (2.56%) VoLTE
8 4 (2.56%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.92%) SMS
10 2 (1.28%) DNS
10 2 (1.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.56%) Power BI
2 3 (1.92%) Power Query
3 2 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.28%) Redis
3 2 (1.28%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.64%) Big Data
4 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.64%) MySQL
4 1 (0.64%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.85%) JIRA
2 5 (3.21%) Git
2 5 (3.21%) Robot Framework
3 4 (2.56%) Selenium
4 3 (1.92%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.28%) Vite
6 1 (0.64%) ERwin
6 1 (0.64%) Subversion
6 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (32.69%) Finance
2 44 (28.21%) Marketing
3 37 (23.72%) Public Sector
4 33 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (21.15%) Electronics
4 33 (21.15%) Manufacturing
5 25 (16.03%) Social Skills
6 15 (9.62%) Billing
6 15 (9.62%) Legal
6 15 (9.62%) Retail
7 10 (6.41%) Law
8 9 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.28%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Back Office
11 1 (0.64%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 30 (19.23%) Architect
2 21 (13.46%) Active Directory Architect
3 16 (10.26%) Senior
4 13 (8.33%) IT Manager
5 12 (7.69%) IT Operations Manager
5 12 (7.69%) Operations Manager
6 11 (7.05%) Analyst
6 11 (7.05%) Designer
6 11 (7.05%) Performance Manager
7 10 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (5.77%) Developer
9 8 (5.13%) Solutions Designer
9 8 (5.13%) Telecoms Manager
10 7 (4.49%) Automation Tester
10 7 (4.49%) Data Manager
10 7 (4.49%) Product Owner
10 7 (4.49%) Tester
11 6 (3.85%) Commercial Manager
12 5 (3.21%) Data Protection Officer
12 5 (3.21%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.56%) JSON
1 4 (2.56%) PySpark
1 4 (2.56%) REST
1 4 (2.56%) Web Services
2 3 (1.92%) CSS
2 3 (1.92%) Gherkin
2 3 (1.92%) HTML
2 3 (1.92%) React
3 2 (1.28%) Framer.js
3 2 (1.28%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.28%) Node.js
3 2 (1.28%) Prisma
3 2 (1.28%) RESTful
3 2 (1.28%) YAML
4 1 (0.64%) .NET
4 1 (0.64%) ADO
4 1 (0.64%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.64%) Blazor
4 1 (0.64%) TanStack
4 1 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.05%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.05%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.21%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.56%) Frameworx
5 4 (2.56%) TM Forum
6 2 (1.28%) CMDB
7 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.64%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.64%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (26.92%) Agile
2 39 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (22.44%) Programme Management
4 33 (21.15%) Digital Marketing
5 29 (18.59%) Test Automation
6 21 (13.46%) Identity Access Management
7 17 (10.90%) Customer Experience
8 16 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (9.62%) Roadmaps
10 13 (8.33%) CI/CD
11 12 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
11 12 (7.69%) Project Management
11 12 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (7.05%) Artificial Intelligence
12 11 (7.05%) Data Analysis
13 10 (6.41%) DataOps
13 10 (6.41%) DevOps
14 9 (5.77%) Analytics
14 9 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (5.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.03%) PowerShell
2 14 (8.97%) Python
3 7 (4.49%) SQL
4 4 (2.56%) Bash
4 4 (2.56%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.92%) VBA
6 2 (1.28%) Bicep
7 1 (0.64%) C#
7 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 11 (7.05%) Degree
4 8 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.85%) ISEB
6 2 (1.28%) CISM
6 2 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.64%) APMP
7 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.64%) CISSP
7 1 (0.64%) ISACA
7 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.49%) QA
2 3 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.92%) GDPR
3 2 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.28%) GRC
3 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.64%) COBIT
4 1 (0.64%) NIST
4 1 (0.64%) P3O
System Software
1 21 (13.46%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.49%) Docker
3 2 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.85%) Ansible
3 2 (1.28%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.64%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 33 (21.15%) SAP
2 18 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.33%) Splunk
4 12 (7.69%) Virgin Media
5 11 (7.05%) Dynatrace
6 10 (6.41%) Databricks
7 7 (4.49%) BT
7 7 (4.49%) Remedy
8 5 (3.21%) BMC
8 5 (3.21%) Cisco
9 4 (2.56%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.56%) VMware
10 3 (1.92%) Nokia
10 3 (1.92%) Openreach
11 2 (1.28%) Cramer
11 2 (1.28%) Empirix
11 2 (1.28%) HP
11 2 (1.28%) NetScout
11 2 (1.28%) Rakuten