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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 119 204 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 22.71% 17.32% 18.29%
As % of the General category 35.63% 28.85% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 48 67
10th Percentile £402 £344 £275
25th Percentile £455 £412 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% +5.88% -4.92%
75th Percentile £700 £527 £563
90th Percentile - £557 £660
Berkshire median daily rate £495 £448 £425
% change year-on-year +10.49% +5.41% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +44.69% +123.68% -26.92%

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 334 707 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 63.74% 60.02% 60.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 326 361
10th Percentile £350 £213 £358
25th Percentile £450 £400 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £660
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.91% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 49 7
10th Percentile £29.90 £16.90 £34.40
25th Percentile £34.63 £51.25 £54.07
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.06 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -26.30% -5.59% +115.58%
75th Percentile £58.13 £72.33 £68.11
90th Percentile £64.50 £87.53 £71.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.50 £58.49 £37.00
% change year-on-year -1.69% +58.08% +72.01%

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

Telecoms
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 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Reading

Telecoms
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 10 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.36%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.84%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.61%) Azure
2 7 (5.88%) AWS
3 5 (4.20%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.20%) SaaS
4 3 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.52%) GCP
4 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.52%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.68%) Figma
6 1 (0.84%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.84%) Azure AKS
6 1 (0.84%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.84%) Collibra
6 1 (0.84%) dbt
6 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.72%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (4.20%) Broadband
3 3 (2.52%) 5G
4 2 (1.68%) 4G
4 2 (1.68%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (1.68%) SIGTRAN
4 2 (1.68%) SMS
4 2 (1.68%) SS7
4 2 (1.68%) VoLTE
4 2 (1.68%) VoWiFi
4 2 (1.68%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.84%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.84%) GPON
5 1 (0.84%) Junos
5 1 (0.84%) LAN
5 1 (0.84%) LTE
5 1 (0.84%) Network Security
5 1 (0.84%) VoIP
5 1 (0.84%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.36%) Power BI
2 3 (2.52%) Power Query
3 2 (1.68%) Big Data
3 2 (1.68%) Metadata
3 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.84%) MySQL
4 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.84%) Redis
4 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Git
1 5 (4.20%) JIRA
2 4 (3.36%) Selenium
3 2 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.68%) Vite
4 1 (0.84%) ERwin
4 1 (0.84%) Subversion
4 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (37.82%) Finance
2 28 (23.53%) Marketing
2 28 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 27 (22.69%) Electronics
3 27 (22.69%) Manufacturing
4 16 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (11.76%) Social Skills
6 11 (9.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.88%) Billing
7 7 (5.88%) Legal
7 7 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.20%) Law
9 2 (1.68%) Publishing
10 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (24.37%) Architect
2 21 (17.65%) Active Directory Architect
3 13 (10.92%) Analyst
4 10 (8.40%) Senior
5 8 (6.72%) Developer
6 6 (5.04%) Designer
6 6 (5.04%) Solutions Designer
7 5 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Commercial Manager
8 4 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.36%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.36%) Python Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Telecoms Manager
8 4 (3.36%) Test Manager
9 3 (2.52%) Python Software Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.36%) JSON
1 4 (3.36%) REST
1 4 (3.36%) Web Services
2 3 (2.52%) CSS
2 3 (2.52%) HTML
2 3 (2.52%) React
3 2 (1.68%) Framer.js
3 2 (1.68%) Kafka
4 1 (0.84%) .NET
4 1 (0.84%) ADO
4 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.84%) Blazor
4 1 (0.84%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.84%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.84%) Node.js
4 1 (0.84%) Prisma
4 1 (0.84%) PySpark
4 1 (0.84%) RESTful
4 1 (0.84%) TanStack
4 1 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.40%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.20%) TM Forum
5 4 (3.36%) Frameworx
6 2 (1.68%) CMDB
6 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.84%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.84%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.84%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.85%) Windows
2 4 (3.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.93%) Agile
2 33 (27.73%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (24.37%) Programme Management
4 27 (22.69%) Digital Marketing
5 22 (18.49%) Test Automation
6 21 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 11 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (9.24%) Customer Experience
8 11 (9.24%) Roadmaps
9 10 (8.40%) DevOps
9 10 (8.40%) Project Management
10 9 (7.56%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (7.56%) Customer-Centricity
10 9 (7.56%) Project Delivery
10 9 (7.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (6.72%) Change Control
11 8 (6.72%) ITIL
11 8 (6.72%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.01%) PowerShell
2 14 (11.76%) Python
3 9 (7.56%) SQL
4 8 (6.72%) Bash
5 3 (2.52%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.52%) VBA
6 1 (0.84%) C#
6 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.84%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (4.20%) APMP
4 3 (2.52%) Degree
4 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.84%) CISM
5 1 (0.84%) CISSP
5 1 (0.84%) ISACA
5 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.20%) P3O
1 5 (4.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 5 (4.20%) SLA
2 2 (1.68%) GDPR
2 2 (1.68%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.68%) QA
3 1 (0.84%) COBIT
3 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.36%) vSphere
3 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.20%) Ansible
3 2 (1.68%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.84%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.84%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.84%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 27 (22.69%) SAP
2 18 (15.13%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.92%) Virgin Media
4 9 (7.56%) Databricks
4 9 (7.56%) Remedy
5 8 (6.72%) BT
6 6 (5.04%) BMC
6 6 (5.04%) Oracle
7 5 (4.20%) IFS
7 5 (4.20%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.36%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.52%) Openreach
10 2 (1.68%) Cramer
11 1 (0.84%) Adobe
11 1 (0.84%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.84%) Citrix
11 1 (0.84%) F5
11 1 (0.84%) Facebook
11 1 (0.84%) Google
11 1 (0.84%) Infoblox