Telecoms Contracts 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 24 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 255 372 477
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.03% 6.54% 8.25%
As % of the General category 13.31% 13.39% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 134 275
10th Percentile £311 £200 £205
25th Percentile £400 £316 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £448 £413
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% +8.61% -4.07%
75th Percentile £588 £536 £500
90th Percentile £700 £680 £575
England median daily rate £490 £460 £488
% change year-on-year +6.52% -5.64% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 9
10th Percentile - £26.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.75 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £15.50 £45.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.56% +125.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £50.74 £65.00 £25.50
90th Percentile £62.24 - £56.50
England median hourly rate £18.04 £60.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year -69.94% +15.38% +67.74%

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 common skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,916 2,779 3,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 60.31% 48.84% 57.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,511 2,241
10th Percentile £205 £213 £246
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £591 £608 £625
90th Percentile £671 £688 £721
England median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 338 162
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.88 £15.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.32 £22.27
Median hourly rate £18.87 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.07% -10.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £53.56 £61.60 £63.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.97 £73.59
England median hourly rate £27.45 £32.90 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.55% +9.65% +25.23%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the South East over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in the South East over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 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
Thames Valley +3 206 £495 +10.49% 302
Berkshire +2 198 £495 +10.49% 232
Hampshire +16 24 £575 -2.13% 84
West Sussex +11 8 £514 +2.80% 49
Buckinghamshire -2 7 £400 -5.88% 39
Kent -3 6 £400 +95.12% 35
Surrey +13 4 £198 -33.05% 79
East Sussex - 3 £300 - 19
Oxfordshire -2 1 - - 35
Home Counties - 1 £550 -
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
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 12 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.96%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.57%) Camunda
4 3 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) Smallworld
Applications
1 13 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.39%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.75%) SAP BRIM
1 7 (2.75%) SAP Hybris
1 7 (2.75%) SAP PSCD
2 6 (2.35%) Oracle Assets
2 6 (2.35%) Oracle EBS R12
2 6 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (2.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.39%) Primavera
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.76%) Azure
2 22 (8.63%) AWS
3 15 (5.88%) GCP
3 15 (5.88%) SaaS
4 13 (5.10%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.14%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 4 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.57%) dbt
8 3 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.18%) GitHub
8 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.78%) Figma
9 2 (0.78%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.39%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.39%) Collibra
10 1 (0.39%) OCI
10 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.45%) MPLS
1 19 (7.45%) SAN
2 18 (7.06%) WAN
3 17 (6.67%) LTE
4 16 (6.27%) LAN
4 16 (6.27%) Wireshark
5 15 (5.88%) VPN
6 14 (5.49%) ATM
6 14 (5.49%) Ethernet
6 14 (5.49%) Frame Relay
6 14 (5.49%) GPRS
6 14 (5.49%) GSM
6 14 (5.49%) SDH
6 14 (5.49%) UMTS
7 13 (5.10%) Radio Access Network
8 12 (4.71%) Firewall
9 10 (3.92%) 5G
10 7 (2.75%) 4G
10 7 (2.75%) Broadband
11 6 (2.35%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (3.92%) Power BI
2 5 (1.96%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.57%) Big Data
3 4 (1.57%) Tableau
4 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.18%) Power Query
5 2 (0.78%) Metadata
5 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.39%) GIS
6 1 (0.39%) MySQL
6 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.39%) Redis
6 1 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.96%) Git
1 5 (1.96%) JIRA
2 4 (1.57%) Selenium
3 2 (0.78%) GitLab
3 2 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.78%) Vite
4 1 (0.39%) ERwin
4 1 (0.39%) Subversion
4 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (29.80%) Finance
2 70 (27.45%) Social Skills
3 58 (22.75%) Public Sector
4 40 (15.69%) Marketing
5 39 (15.29%) Electronics
5 39 (15.29%) Manufacturing
6 30 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (7.45%) Billing
8 9 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.35%) Legal
10 4 (1.57%) Banking
10 4 (1.57%) French Language
10 4 (1.57%) Retail
11 3 (1.18%) Law
12 2 (0.78%) Military
12 2 (0.78%) Publishing
13 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.39%) Avionics
13 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (18.04%) Architect
2 23 (9.02%) Analyst
3 21 (8.24%) Active Directory Architect
4 19 (7.45%) Consultant
5 17 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 17 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 16 (6.27%) Senior
7 14 (5.49%) Developer
8 13 (5.10%) IP Engineer
9 10 (3.92%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.14%) Functional Consultant
10 8 (3.14%) Project Manager
11 7 (2.75%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.75%) Designer
11 7 (2.75%) SAP Consultant
11 7 (2.75%) SAP Functional Consultant
11 7 (2.75%) Solutions Designer
11 7 (2.75%) Telecoms Architect
11 7 (2.75%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.92%) REST
2 8 (3.14%) Web Services
3 7 (2.75%) CSS
3 7 (2.75%) HTML
4 5 (1.96%) JSON
4 5 (1.96%) React
4 5 (1.96%) RFC 2544
5 4 (1.57%) Kafka
6 3 (1.18%) Ajax
6 3 (1.18%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.18%) SOAP
6 3 (1.18%) XML
7 2 (0.78%) Framer.js
7 2 (0.78%) YAML
8 1 (0.39%) .NET
8 1 (0.39%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.39%) ADO
8 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.39%) Node.js
8 1 (0.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.92%) TM Forum
4 8 (3.14%) NHS
4 8 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.96%) Frameworx
8 4 (1.57%) CMDB
8 4 (1.57%) LIMS
9 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.18%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.78%) CSOC
10 2 (0.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (0.78%) PMI
10 2 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.39%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.94%) Windows
2 19 (7.45%) Linux
3 16 (6.27%) Unix
4 4 (1.57%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (20.39%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (19.61%) Agile
3 42 (16.47%) Programme Management
4 39 (15.29%) Digital Marketing
5 38 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (13.33%) Project Management
7 30 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (10.98%) ITIL
9 23 (9.02%) Test Automation
10 21 (8.24%) CI/CD
10 21 (8.24%) Identity Access Management
10 21 (8.24%) Project Delivery
11 20 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (7.06%) Fault Management
12 18 (7.06%) Roadmaps
12 18 (7.06%) Test Strategy
13 17 (6.67%) Change Management
13 17 (6.67%) DevOps
14 16 (6.27%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (6.27%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.20%) Python
2 25 (9.80%) PowerShell
3 19 (7.45%) SQL
4 16 (6.27%) Java
5 12 (4.71%) Bash
6 3 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.18%) VBA
7 1 (0.39%) C
7 1 (0.39%) C#
7 1 (0.39%) C++
7 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.39%) Magik
7 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (18.04%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.55%) DV Cleared
3 16 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (6.27%) Degree
4 15 (5.88%) CCNP
5 14 (5.49%) ISEB
5 14 (5.49%) ISTQB
5 14 (5.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 12 (4.71%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.75%) CISM
7 7 (2.75%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.96%) APMP
8 5 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.96%) PMP
9 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.18%) CISSP
9 3 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.78%) ACCA
10 2 (0.78%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.71%) SLA
2 8 (3.14%) QA
3 7 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.96%) P3O
6 4 (1.57%) GDPR
7 3 (1.18%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.18%) PMO
8 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.78%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.78%) NCSC
8 2 (0.78%) NIST
8 2 (0.78%) OASIS TOSCA
8 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.39%) MIL-STD-1553
9 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (9.02%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.35%) vSphere
3 4 (1.57%) Ceph
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) Docker
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.14%) Ansible
3 5 (1.96%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (0.78%) Argo
4 2 (0.78%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (0.78%) SCCM
5 1 (0.39%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.39%) Grafana
5 1 (0.39%) NSN NetAct
5 1 (0.39%) QRadar
Vendors
1 52 (20.39%) SAP
2 44 (17.25%) Microsoft
3 33 (12.94%) Cisco
4 16 (6.27%) Juniper
5 15 (5.88%) Virgin Media
6 13 (5.10%) Remedy
7 12 (4.71%) Databricks
8 11 (4.31%) Salesforce
9 10 (3.92%) Oracle
9 10 (3.92%) ServiceNow
10 8 (3.14%) BT
11 6 (2.35%) BMC
11 6 (2.35%) IFS
12 4 (1.57%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.57%) Dell
12 4 (1.57%) F5
12 4 (1.57%) Nokia
13 3 (1.18%) Ericsson
13 3 (1.18%) Huawei
13 3 (1.18%) Splunk