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 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 31 23
Rank change year-on-year -43 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 196 193 364
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.97% 5.50% 8.00%
As % of the General category 5.60% 9.40% 15.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 127 154
10th Percentile £325 £293 £279
25th Percentile £400 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -4.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £638
90th Percentile £638 £622 £725
England median daily rate £475 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £15.26 - £17.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £14.75 £23.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -65.56% +136.84%
75th Percentile £17.78 £16.25 -
90th Percentile £22.86 £17.75 £48.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £20.66 £67.75
% change year-on-year +1.65% -69.51% +50.56%

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 3,502 2,053 2,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 53.00% 58.49% 51.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,807 1,293 1,315
10th Percentile £263 £200 £213
25th Percentile £413 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.18% -4.70% -
75th Percentile £624 £588 £608
90th Percentile £722 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 183 172
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.00 £15.02
25th Percentile £16.77 £14.65 £27.00
Median hourly rate £35.22 £19.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +80.62% -66.00% +9.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £40.65 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.96 £76.75 £76.83
England median hourly rate £30.50 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +21.27% -35.26% +41.27%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -31 140 £500 +11.11% 113
Berkshire -17 132 £498 +10.56% 73
Hampshire -32 20 £250 -39.39% 53
West Sussex -19 17 £465 -9.63% 22
Middlesex - 7 - - 1
Buckinghamshire -24 6 £694 +67.17% 21
Surrey -18 3 £475 +2.70% 21
Oxfordshire -26 2 £340 - 19
Kent -9 1 £248 -52.82% 17
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 3 (1.53%) Confluence
1 3 (1.53%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.51%) CMS
2 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.04%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (8.16%) SAP PSCD
2 13 (6.63%) SAP BRIM
3 12 (6.12%) SAP Hybris
4 4 (2.04%) NetSuite
4 4 (2.04%) Sage X3
5 3 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (1.02%) SAP FI
6 2 (1.02%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (7.65%) Azure
2 14 (7.14%) AWS
2 14 (7.14%) GCP
2 14 (7.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 7 (3.57%) GitHub
3 7 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (2.55%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
5 4 (2.04%) Fivetran
5 4 (2.04%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.53%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.53%) Apigee
6 3 (1.53%) Azure API Management
6 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (1.53%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.22%) WAN
2 17 (8.67%) MPLS
3 16 (8.16%) 5G
4 15 (7.65%) 4G
4 15 (7.65%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (7.14%) 2G
5 14 (7.14%) Radio Access Network
6 12 (6.12%) 3G
6 12 (6.12%) LAN
7 11 (5.61%) BGP
7 11 (5.61%) Diameter Protocol
7 11 (5.61%) SD-WAN
8 10 (5.10%) SIGTRAN
8 10 (5.10%) SS7
8 10 (5.10%) VPN
9 8 (4.08%) DNS
9 8 (4.08%) Firewall
10 7 (3.57%) Broadband
10 7 (3.57%) Ethernet
10 7 (3.57%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (2.04%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.53%) Power BI
4 3 (1.53%) Tableau
5 2 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.02%) Tableau Desktop
6 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (3.57%) JIRA
2 5 (2.55%) Git
3 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
General
1 66 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.82%) Finance
3 28 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.71%) Billing
5 17 (8.67%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.06%) Marketing
8 6 (3.06%) Retail
9 5 (2.55%) Publishing
10 4 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.53%) Legal
12 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.51%) Automotive
13 1 (0.51%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 24 (12.24%) Architect
2 23 (11.73%) Consultant
3 22 (11.22%) Analyst
3 22 (11.22%) Lead
3 22 (11.22%) Senior
4 16 (8.16%) Functional Consultant
4 16 (8.16%) SAP Consultant
4 16 (8.16%) SAP Functional Consultant
5 15 (7.65%) Designer
6 13 (6.63%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.61%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (5.10%) Compliance Analyst
8 10 (5.10%) Network Architect
8 10 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.59%) Developer
9 9 (4.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.08%) Telecoms Analyst
11 7 (3.57%) Mobile Designer
11 7 (3.57%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.10%) Terraform
2 6 (3.06%) REST
2 6 (3.06%) RESTful
3 4 (2.04%) 802.1X
3 4 (2.04%) SOAP
4 3 (1.53%) JWT
4 3 (1.53%) NETCONF
4 3 (1.53%) OAuth
4 3 (1.53%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.53%) OpenAPI
4 3 (1.53%) OpenConfig
4 3 (1.53%) SAML
4 3 (1.53%) Swagger
4 3 (1.53%) YANG
5 2 (1.02%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.02%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.02%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.02%) OLE
5 2 (1.02%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (1.02%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.63%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.08%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.57%) CMDB
3 7 (3.57%) Social Media
4 5 (2.55%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.55%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.53%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.53%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.02%) FMCG
7 2 (1.02%) IVR
7 2 (1.02%) PMI
7 2 (1.02%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.04%) Linux
2 2 (1.02%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.51%) Unix
3 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 28 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (12.24%) Agile
3 24 (12.24%) Roadmaps
4 21 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (10.20%) Service Delivery
6 19 (9.69%) Project Delivery
6 19 (9.69%) Technical Leadership
7 18 (9.18%) Validation
8 17 (8.67%) AI
8 17 (8.67%) Change Management
8 17 (8.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (8.67%) Test Automation
9 16 (8.16%) Workshop Facilitation
10 15 (7.65%) CI/CD
10 15 (7.65%) Revenue Management
10 15 (7.65%) Technology Roadmap
11 14 (7.14%) ITIL
11 14 (7.14%) Migration
12 13 (6.63%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.69%) Python
2 5 (2.55%) SQL
3 4 (2.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.53%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.02%) C#
5 2 (1.02%) R
6 1 (0.51%) Ada
6 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.51%) Bash
6 1 (0.51%) Bicep
6 1 (0.51%) C
6 1 (0.51%) C++
6 1 (0.51%) Java
6 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.51%) SOQL
6 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.65%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (5.61%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.59%) Degree
6 8 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.57%) CCNP
8 6 (3.06%) CCIE
9 5 (2.55%) PMI Certification
10 4 (2.04%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.04%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.04%) JNCIE
11 3 (1.53%) CCNA
11 3 (1.53%) PMP
11 3 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 3 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.02%) CISM
12 2 (1.02%) CISSP
12 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.55%) QA
2 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.04%) NCSC
3 3 (1.53%) GRC
3 3 (1.53%) PMO
4 2 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.02%) GDPR
4 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.02%) SLA
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.51%) GAAP
5 1 (0.51%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.51%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.51%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.53%) Docker
1 3 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (1.53%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.08%) Ansible
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.02%) NSN NetAct
4 1 (0.51%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.51%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.51%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (12.24%) Cisco
2 23 (11.73%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.16%) SAP
4 14 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 12 (6.12%) F5
6 11 (5.61%) Juniper
7 8 (4.08%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.57%) BMC
8 7 (3.57%) Google
8 7 (3.57%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.57%) VMware
9 6 (3.06%) Arista
9 6 (3.06%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.55%) Nokia
11 4 (2.04%) PagerDuty
11 4 (2.04%) Sage
12 3 (1.53%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.53%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.53%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.53%) Zscaler