Telecoms Contract Job Trends in the South East

Telecommunications
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -54 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 192 254 379
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.94% 7.47% 6.88%
As % of the General category 5.78% 12.53% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 174 143
10th Percentile £273 £325 £205
25th Percentile £400 £405 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £580
90th Percentile £695 £700 £725
England median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 14
10th Percentile £20.94 - £24.20
25th Percentile £28.72 £14.75 -
Median hourly rate £42.25 £15.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +172.58% -65.56% +130.77%
75th Percentile £48.09 £16.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £52.50 £62.24 -
England median hourly rate £22.75 £15.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +46.77% -73.04% +53.33%

All General Skills
South East

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 general skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,321 2,027 2,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.90% 59.64% 48.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,875 1,253 1,485
10th Percentile £263 £200 £213
25th Percentile £407 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -
75th Percentile £615 £594 £609
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +2.44% -3.30% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 182 300
10th Percentile £14.91 £13.00 £13.23
25th Percentile £21.35 £14.36 £19.25
Median hourly rate £48.72 £18.85 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +158.53% -60.33% -5.00%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.69 £61.84
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.50 £75.02
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.53% -24.43% +14.60%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Telecoms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Telecoms job vacancy trend in the South East

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Telecoms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the South East over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Telecoms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in the South East over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 July 2026. 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
Thames Valley -39 139 £465 -6.06% 70
Berkshire -21 134 £460 -8.00% 48
Hampshire -29 26 £250 -56.52% 24
West Sussex -14 14 £469 -8.75% 17
Buckinghamshire -39 5 £763 +87.12% 14
Surrey -19 4 £813 +306.25% 21
Middlesex - 3 - - 1
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.08%) Confluence
2 2 (1.04%) Appian
2 2 (1.04%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.52%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) IIS
3 1 (0.52%) JBoss
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.04%) MicroStation
3 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 13 (6.77%) SAP PSCD
2 10 (5.21%) SAP BRIM
2 10 (5.21%) SAP Hybris
3 5 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (2.08%) NetSuite
4 4 (2.08%) Sage X3
5 3 (1.56%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (1.04%) SAP FI
6 2 (1.04%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.52%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 15 (7.81%) AWS
1 15 (7.81%) Azure
2 14 (7.29%) GCP
3 12 (6.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 6 (3.13%) GitHub
4 6 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (2.08%) Cloud Functions
5 4 (2.08%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.08%) Fivetran
5 4 (2.08%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.56%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.56%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.56%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.04%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.04%) Figma
7 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.42%) MPLS
1 20 (10.42%) WAN
2 14 (7.29%) BGP
3 12 (6.25%) 5G
3 12 (6.25%) LAN
3 12 (6.25%) VPN
3 12 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (5.73%) 2G
4 11 (5.73%) 4G
4 11 (5.73%) Broadband
4 11 (5.73%) Firewall
4 11 (5.73%) Radio Access Network
4 11 (5.73%) SD-WAN
5 9 (4.69%) 3G
6 8 (4.17%) Diameter Protocol
6 8 (4.17%) DNS
6 8 (4.17%) Internet
7 7 (3.65%) SIGTRAN
7 7 (3.65%) TCP/IP
7 7 (3.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (2.08%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.56%) Power BI
4 2 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.04%) Tableau
5 1 (0.52%) GIS
5 1 (0.52%) MySQL
5 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.69%) JIRA
2 5 (2.60%) Git
3 3 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
General
1 59 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.63%) Finance
3 25 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.94%) Billing
5 17 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.13%) Retail
9 5 (2.60%) Marketing
9 5 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.08%) Legal
11 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.04%) Aviation
12 2 (1.04%) Publishing
13 1 (0.52%) Automotive
13 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (11.98%) Senior
2 22 (11.46%) Architect
3 20 (10.42%) Lead
4 18 (9.38%) Analyst
4 18 (9.38%) Consultant
5 16 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 13 (6.77%) Designer
6 13 (6.77%) SAP Consultant
7 12 (6.25%) Functional Consultant
7 12 (6.25%) SAP Functional Consultant
8 11 (5.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.69%) Developer
10 9 (4.69%) IP Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Network Architect
10 9 (4.69%) Network Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Test Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.13%) REST
2 5 (2.60%) RESTful
2 5 (2.60%) SOAP
3 3 (1.56%) .NET
3 3 (1.56%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.04%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.04%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.04%) Blazor
4 2 (1.04%) JWT
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.04%) NETCONF
4 2 (1.04%) OAuth
4 2 (1.04%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.04%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.04%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (1.04%) RESTCONF
4 2 (1.04%) SAML
4 2 (1.04%) Swagger
4 2 (1.04%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.77%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.17%) CMDB
3 7 (3.65%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.13%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.60%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.56%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.56%) Social Media
8 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.04%) FMCG
8 2 (1.04%) IVR
8 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.04%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.60%) Windows
2 4 (2.08%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 27 (14.06%) Agile
3 24 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (11.98%) Roadmaps
5 22 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (10.42%) Project Delivery
6 20 (10.42%) Validation
7 19 (9.90%) ITIL
8 17 (8.85%) Change Management
9 16 (8.33%) AI
9 16 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (8.33%) Test Automation
10 15 (7.81%) Network Design
11 14 (7.29%) ITSM
12 13 (6.77%) CI/CD
12 13 (6.77%) Migration
13 12 (6.25%) Revenue Management
13 12 (6.25%) Service Design
13 12 (6.25%) Workshop Facilitation
14 11 (5.73%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.90%) Python
2 5 (2.60%) SQL
3 4 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.56%) Bash
4 3 (1.56%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.04%) C#
6 1 (0.52%) Ada
6 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.52%) Bicep
6 1 (0.52%) C
6 1 (0.52%) C++
6 1 (0.52%) Java
6 1 (0.52%) R
6 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.52%) SOQL
6 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.98%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.29%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (6.25%) Degree
5 10 (5.21%) CCNP
6 8 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.65%) CCIE
8 4 (2.08%) BC Cleared
8 4 (2.08%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.56%) JNCIE
9 3 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.04%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.04%) PMP
10 2 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.52%) NVQ Level 3
11 1 (0.52%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.13%) NCSC
2 5 (2.60%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.60%) SLA
3 4 (2.08%) QA
4 3 (1.56%) GRC
4 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) PMO
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.56%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (4.69%) Ansible
1 9 (4.69%) Terraform
2 6 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.04%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (1.04%) Iperf
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.04%) Nmap
3 2 (1.04%) NSN NetAct
4 1 (0.52%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.52%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.52%) Fluentd
4 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (13.02%) Cisco
2 22 (11.46%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.77%) SAP
4 12 (6.25%) Juniper
5 11 (5.73%) F5
6 10 (5.21%) Fortinet
6 10 (5.21%) Salesforce
7 9 (4.69%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.17%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.65%) Arista
9 7 (3.65%) BMC
9 7 (3.65%) Remedy
9 7 (3.65%) VMware
10 6 (3.13%) Nokia
11 5 (2.60%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.60%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.08%) Google
12 4 (2.08%) PagerDuty
12 4 (2.08%) Sage
13 3 (1.56%) BT