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 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -59 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 193 249 373
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.92% 7.20% 7.18%
As % of the General category 5.72% 12.21% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 170 151
10th Percentile £247 £324 £213
25th Percentile £396 £405 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £521 £588 £588
90th Percentile £691 £700 £725
England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 13
10th Percentile £20.94 - £22.30
25th Percentile £28.72 £14.75 -
Median hourly rate £42.25 £15.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +172.58% -65.56% +136.84%
75th Percentile £48.09 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £52.50 £62.24 -
England median hourly rate £24.50 £15.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +58.06% -74.17% +4.35%

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 3,376 2,040 2,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.00% 59.01% 49.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,900 1,259 1,436
10th Percentile £254 £200 £213
25th Percentile £411 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £619 £598 £615
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 455 183 271
10th Percentile £15.18 £13.00 £14.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £14.25 £22.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 £18.87 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.19% -62.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.00 £75.24
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.32 £38.12
% change year-on-year +34.26% -33.58% +26.86%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -41 139 £465 -6.06% 59
Berkshire -20 134 £460 -7.54% 40
Hampshire -37 25 £225 -55.04% 26
West Sussex -17 14 £469 -8.75% 11
Buckinghamshire -40 5 £763 +83.73% 9
Surrey -20 4 £813 +75.68% 22
Middlesex - 4 - - 1
Kent -3 1 £248 -60.37% 9
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 (2.07%) 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 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.59%) 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 (6.74%) SAP PSCD
2 9 (4.66%) SAP BRIM
2 9 (4.66%) SAP Hybris
3 4 (2.07%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.07%) Sage X3
4 3 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (1.04%) SAP FI
5 2 (1.04%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.52%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 15 (7.77%) Azure
1 15 (7.77%) GCP
2 14 (7.25%) AWS
3 11 (5.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 7 (3.63%) GitHub
4 7 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (2.59%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.07%) Cloud Functions
6 4 (2.07%) Fivetran
6 4 (2.07%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.55%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (1.55%) Apigee
7 3 (1.55%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.55%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.88%) WAN
2 20 (10.36%) MPLS
3 14 (7.25%) 5G
3 14 (7.25%) BGP
4 13 (6.74%) 4G
5 12 (6.22%) 2G
5 12 (6.22%) Broadband
5 12 (6.22%) LAN
5 12 (6.22%) Radio Access Network
5 12 (6.22%) SD-WAN
5 12 (6.22%) VPN
5 12 (6.22%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (5.18%) 3G
6 10 (5.18%) Firewall
7 9 (4.66%) Diameter Protocol
8 8 (4.15%) DNS
8 8 (4.15%) Internet
8 8 (4.15%) SIGTRAN
8 8 (4.15%) SS7
9 7 (3.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (2.07%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.07%) Tableau
4 3 (1.55%) Power BI
5 2 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.04%) Tableau Desktop
6 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.52%) GIS
6 1 (0.52%) MySQL
6 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.66%) JIRA
2 5 (2.59%) Git
3 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
General
1 59 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.51%) Finance
3 27 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.88%) Billing
5 17 (8.81%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.11%) Marketing
8 6 (3.11%) Retail
9 5 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.59%) Publishing
10 4 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.07%) Legal
11 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.04%) Aviation
13 1 (0.52%) Automotive
13 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (11.92%) Architect
1 23 (11.92%) Senior
2 20 (10.36%) Lead
3 18 (9.33%) Consultant
4 17 (8.81%) Analyst
5 16 (8.29%) Data Engineer
6 15 (7.77%) Designer
7 13 (6.74%) SAP Consultant
8 12 (6.22%) Functional Consultant
8 12 (6.22%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 11 (5.70%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.18%) Network Architect
10 10 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) Developer
11 9 (4.66%) IP Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) Test Engineer
12 8 (4.15%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.11%) RESTful
2 5 (2.59%) REST
3 4 (2.07%) SOAP
4 3 (1.55%) .NET
4 3 (1.55%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.55%) JWT
4 3 (1.55%) OAuth
4 3 (1.55%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.55%) OpenAPI
4 3 (1.55%) SAML
4 3 (1.55%) Swagger
5 2 (1.04%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.04%) Blazor
5 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.04%) NETCONF
5 2 (1.04%) OpenConfig
5 2 (1.04%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (1.04%) RESTCONF
5 2 (1.04%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.74%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.63%) CMDB
2 7 (3.63%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.11%) Driving Licence
3 6 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.59%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.07%) Social Media
6 3 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) FMCG
7 2 (1.04%) IVR
7 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.04%) PMI
7 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.59%) Windows
2 4 (2.07%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 28 (14.51%) Agile
3 26 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (13.47%) Roadmaps
4 20 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (9.84%) Project Delivery
5 19 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (9.84%) Validation
6 18 (9.33%) AI
6 18 (9.33%) Test Automation
7 17 (8.81%) ITIL
8 16 (8.29%) Change Management
8 16 (8.29%) Network Design
9 15 (7.77%) CI/CD
10 13 (6.74%) Analytics
10 13 (6.74%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (6.22%) Decision-Making
11 12 (6.22%) Migration
11 12 (6.22%) Revenue Management
11 12 (6.22%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.84%) Python
2 7 (3.63%) SQL
3 4 (2.07%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.55%) Bash
4 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.04%) C#
5 2 (1.04%) R
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%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.52%) SOQL
6 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (18.65%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.88%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (6.74%) Degree
5 10 (5.18%) CCNP
6 8 (4.15%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.63%) CCIE
8 5 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.07%) BC Cleared
9 4 (2.07%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.55%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.04%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.04%) PMP
11 2 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (1.04%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.11%) NCSC
2 5 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.07%) GRC
3 4 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.07%) QA
4 3 (1.55%) SLA
5 2 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.04%) GDPR
5 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 31000
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) PMO
6 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.55%) Docker
1 3 (1.55%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (5.18%) Terraform
2 9 (4.66%) Ansible
3 7 (3.63%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.04%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.04%) Iperf
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.04%) Nmap
4 2 (1.04%) NSN NetAct
5 1 (0.52%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.52%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (12.44%) Cisco
2 23 (11.92%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.74%) SAP
4 12 (6.22%) Juniper
5 11 (5.70%) F5
6 10 (5.18%) Salesforce
7 9 (4.66%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.15%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.63%) BMC
9 7 (3.63%) Google
9 7 (3.63%) ServiceNow
10 6 (3.11%) Arista
10 6 (3.11%) Nokia
10 6 (3.11%) VMware
11 5 (2.59%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.59%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.07%) PagerDuty
12 4 (2.07%) Remedy
12 4 (2.07%) Sage
13 3 (1.55%) BT