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 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 13 25
Rank change year-on-year -65 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 150 287 340
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.55% 9.67% 6.22%
As % of the General category 5.30% 15.71% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 170 128
10th Percentile £280 £310 £200
25th Percentile £400 £397 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £491 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +15.61% +2.91%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £511
90th Percentile £631 £700 £548
England median daily rate £478 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -4.45% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 17
10th Percentile £19.64 £18.38 £24.40
25th Percentile £20.50 £19.75 -
Median hourly rate £33.38 £26.34 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.73% -41.48% -14.29%
75th Percentile £44.28 £45.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £51.50 £62.24 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £24.17 £57.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% -57.97% +9.52%

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 2,829 1,827 2,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 48.01% 61.58% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,767 1,160 1,514
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £610 £598 £600
90th Percentile £692 £660 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 131 335
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.08 £12.88
25th Percentile £22.79 £15.00 £18.35
Median hourly rate £49.00 £22.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +122.73% -51.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £82.25 £59.38 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.78 £27.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +11.93% -9.84% -6.15%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -47 115 £450 -8.30% 67
Berkshire -25 109 £450 -8.30% 48
Hampshire -41 15 £401 -30.26% 17
West Sussex -11 14 £469 -8.75% 11
Buckinghamshire -39 5 £525 +16.67% 12
Kent -11 3 £500 +143.90% 5
Surrey -22 3 £1,150 +489.74% 13
Oxfordshire -20 1 £650 +48.57% 8
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 5 (3.33%) Appian
2 4 (2.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.33%) IIS
3 2 (1.33%) JBoss
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.33%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.33%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.67%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.33%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.67%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.67%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.67%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (8.67%) SAP PSCD
2 11 (7.33%) SAP BRIM
2 11 (7.33%) SAP Hybris
3 5 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.67%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.67%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.00%) AWS
1 12 (8.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 9 (6.00%) Azure
3 7 (4.67%) GCP
4 3 (2.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (1.33%) Figma
5 2 (1.33%) Serverless
6 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.67%) Canva
6 1 (0.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.67%) IaaS
6 1 (0.67%) iPaaS
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.67%) PaaS
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.00%) MPLS
2 9 (6.00%) Broadband
3 8 (5.33%) BGP
3 8 (5.33%) Internet
3 8 (5.33%) WAN
4 7 (4.67%) 5G
4 7 (4.67%) Firewall
5 6 (4.00%) 2G
5 6 (4.00%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (4.00%) VPN
6 5 (3.33%) OSPF
6 5 (3.33%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.67%) 4G
7 4 (2.67%) Multicast
7 4 (2.67%) PSTN
7 4 (2.67%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (2.67%) VoIP
7 4 (2.67%) Wireshark
8 3 (2.00%) ISDN
8 3 (2.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.00%) Power BI
3 2 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.33%) MySQL
3 2 (1.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.33%) Tableau
4 1 (0.67%) GIS
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.67%) Git
2 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.67%) Finance
3 23 (15.33%) Public Sector
4 17 (11.33%) Billing
5 12 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.33%) Marketing
7 7 (4.67%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.33%) Electronics
9 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.00%) Retail
10 2 (1.33%) Aviation
10 2 (1.33%) Legal
10 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (12.67%) Architect
2 14 (9.33%) Consultant
3 13 (8.67%) Analyst
3 13 (8.67%) SAP Consultant
4 12 (8.00%) Lead
5 11 (7.33%) Network Engineer
6 10 (6.67%) Functional Consultant
6 10 (6.67%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 10 (6.67%) Senior
7 9 (6.00%) IP Engineer
7 9 (6.00%) Project Manager
7 9 (6.00%) ServiceNow Architect
8 8 (5.33%) Designer
8 8 (5.33%) Developer
9 7 (4.67%) Author
9 7 (4.67%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) IP Network Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) Technical Author
9 7 (4.67%) Test Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Cabling Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.33%) REST
2 7 (4.67%) SOAP
3 3 (2.00%) .NET
4 2 (1.33%) J2EE
4 2 (1.33%) RESTful
4 2 (1.33%) Web Services
5 1 (0.67%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.67%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.67%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.67%) Blazor
5 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.67%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.67%) HTML
5 1 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.67%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (0.67%) React
5 1 (0.67%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.33%) Driving Licence
2 6 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.33%) CMDB
3 5 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.00%) NHS
5 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.33%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.33%) PMI
5 2 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.33%) TM Forum
6 1 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.33%) Windows
2 3 (2.00%) Linux
3 2 (1.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (14.67%) Agile
1 22 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (9.33%) Roadmaps
3 13 (8.67%) ITSM
4 12 (8.00%) Project Delivery
4 12 (8.00%) Revenue Management
4 12 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 11 (7.33%) ITIL
5 11 (7.33%) Migration
6 10 (6.67%) Network Design
6 10 (6.67%) Project Management
7 9 (6.00%) Customer Service
8 8 (5.33%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (5.33%) Change Management
8 8 (5.33%) Programme Management
8 8 (5.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (5.33%) Validation
9 7 (4.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.67%) Python
2 6 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (4.00%) SQL
3 3 (2.00%) Bash
4 1 (0.67%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.67%) Bicep
4 1 (0.67%) C#
4 1 (0.67%) PHP
4 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.67%) SOQL
4 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.67%) Degree
4 6 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.33%) CCNP
5 5 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.67%) BC Cleared
7 3 (2.00%) CCIE
7 3 (2.00%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.33%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.33%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.67%) CCIP
9 1 (0.67%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.67%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.67%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.67%) OCP
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.33%) SLA
2 4 (2.67%) QA
3 2 (1.33%) GRC
3 2 (1.33%) NCSC
4 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.33%) Ansible
2 2 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (1.33%) Iperf
2 2 (1.33%) Nmap
2 2 (1.33%) NSN NetAct
3 1 (0.67%) Fluentd
3 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.67%) Grafana
3 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (14.00%) ServiceNow
2 18 (12.00%) SAP
3 15 (10.00%) Cisco
4 8 (5.33%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 6 (4.00%) Juniper
5 6 (4.00%) Nokia
5 6 (4.00%) Remedy
6 5 (3.33%) Oracle
7 3 (2.00%) BT
7 3 (2.00%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.00%) Ericsson
7 3 (2.00%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.33%) Arista
8 2 (1.33%) F5
8 2 (1.33%) IBM
8 2 (1.33%) Meraki
8 2 (1.33%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.33%) Tufin