Telecoms Engineer Contracts in the South East

Telecommunications Engineer
England > South East

The median Telecommunications Engineer daily rate in the South East is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 188 209
Rank change year-on-year +28 +21 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Telecoms Engineer 5 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.061% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.066% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile - - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.73%
75th Percentile - - £469
90th Percentile - - £488
England median daily rate £548 £345 £375
% change year-on-year +58.70% -8.00% -37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £25.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.38 £72.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -67.76% +190.00% -50.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 3,209 4,522 5,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.50% 92.19% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,075 2,778 3,634
10th Percentile £207 £250 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £612
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 377 232
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +17.05% +122.21%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.75 £64.97
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -43.94% +7.14% +63.55%

Telecoms Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Telecoms Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms Engineer in the South East

Telecoms Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms Engineer in the South East

Telecoms Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms Engineer in the South East

Telecoms Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Berkshire +15 5 £500 - 2
Thames Valley +14 5 £500 - 2
Telecoms Engineer
England

Telecoms Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, Telecoms Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Telecoms Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) WFM
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Tableau
2 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline

Telecoms Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (60.00%) dbt
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) 4G
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (20.00%) IPv6
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (20.00%) TACACS
1 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (60.00%) Tableau
General
1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Validation
1 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
1 3 (60.00%) WFM
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Ceph
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Dell