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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 24 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 255 369 471
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.34% 6.46% 8.20%
As % of the General category 13.74% 13.24% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 132 271
10th Percentile £308 £200 £205
25th Percentile £400 £300 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% +3.03% -5.71%
75th Percentile £581 £533 £500
90th Percentile £700 £650 £575
England median daily rate £490 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +8.89% -7.12% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 9
10th Percentile - £26.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.75 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £16.90 £45.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.44% +125.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £51.28 £65.00 £25.50
90th Percentile £62.24 - £56.50
England median hourly rate £18.31 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -70.71% +19.05% +40.00%

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 1,856 2,786 3,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 60.73% 48.79% 57.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 1,511 2,227
10th Percentile £210 £213 £241
25th Percentile £370 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £721
England median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 347 161
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.88 £15.21
25th Percentile £14.23 £18.32 £22.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.18% -10.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.39 £74.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £32.29 £28.07
% change year-on-year -13.47% +15.03% +20.01%

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 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the South East

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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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +5 207 £495 +10.38% 126
Berkshire +3 198 £495 +10.49% 100
Hampshire +12 23 £575 -2.13% 37
West Sussex +15 8 £514 +2.80% 18
Buckinghamshire +2 7 £400 -18.78% 14
Kent -6 5 £303 +47.56% 17
Surrey +12 4 £198 -33.05% 34
East Sussex - 3 £300 - 6
Oxfordshire 0 2 £250 - 17
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 Spark
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 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 21 (8.24%) AWS
3 14 (5.49%) GCP
3 14 (5.49%) SaaS
4 12 (4.71%) 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
8 3 (1.18%) dbt
8 3 (1.18%) GitHub
8 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
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 20 (7.84%) MPLS
1 20 (7.84%) SAN
2 19 (7.45%) WAN
3 18 (7.06%) LTE
4 17 (6.67%) LAN
4 17 (6.67%) Wireshark
5 16 (6.27%) VPN
6 15 (5.88%) ATM
6 15 (5.88%) Ethernet
6 15 (5.88%) Frame Relay
6 15 (5.88%) GPRS
6 15 (5.88%) GSM
6 15 (5.88%) SDH
6 15 (5.88%) UMTS
7 13 (5.10%) Radio Access Network
8 12 (4.71%) Firewall
9 9 (3.53%) 5G
10 7 (2.75%) 4G
11 6 (2.35%) BGP
11 6 (2.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (3.53%) Power BI
2 4 (1.57%) Big Data
2 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.18%) Power Query
3 3 (1.18%) Tableau
4 2 (0.78%) Metadata
4 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.39%) GIS
5 1 (0.39%) MySQL
5 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.39%) Redis
5 1 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
5 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 78 (30.59%) Finance
2 68 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 58 (22.75%) Public Sector
4 41 (16.08%) Marketing
5 40 (15.69%) Electronics
5 40 (15.69%) Manufacturing
6 29 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (7.45%) Billing
8 10 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.75%) Legal
10 4 (1.57%) Banking
11 3 (1.18%) French Language
11 3 (1.18%) Law
11 3 (1.18%) Retail
12 2 (0.78%) Military
12 2 (0.78%) Publishing
13 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.39%) Avionics
13 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (18.04%) Architect
2 23 (9.02%) Analyst
3 21 (8.24%) Active Directory Architect
4 18 (7.06%) Consultant
4 18 (7.06%) Test Engineer
5 17 (6.67%) Network Engineer
6 16 (6.27%) Senior
7 14 (5.49%) Developer
7 14 (5.49%) IP Engineer
8 11 (4.31%) Support Engineer
9 9 (3.53%) Telecoms Manager
10 8 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (3.14%) Functional Consultant
10 8 (3.14%) Project Manager
11 7 (2.75%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.75%) Designer
11 7 (2.75%) SAP Consultant
11 7 (2.75%) SAP Functional Consultant
11 7 (2.75%) Service Manager
11 7 (2.75%) Solutions Designer
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 21 (8.24%) 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%) Frameworx
8 4 (1.57%) CMDB
8 4 (1.57%) Data Centre
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 34 (13.33%) Windows
2 20 (7.84%) Linux
3 17 (6.67%) 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 49 (19.22%) Agile
3 43 (16.86%) Programme Management
4 40 (15.69%) Digital Marketing
5 39 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (13.73%) Project Management
7 30 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (10.20%) ITIL
9 22 (8.63%) Test Automation
10 21 (8.24%) CI/CD
10 21 (8.24%) Identity Access Management
11 20 (7.84%) Project Delivery
11 20 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (7.45%) Test Strategy
13 18 (7.06%) Fault Management
13 18 (7.06%) Roadmaps
14 17 (6.67%) DevOps
14 17 (6.67%) Service Delivery
15 16 (6.27%) Artificial Intelligence
15 16 (6.27%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.80%) PowerShell
1 25 (9.80%) Python
2 18 (7.06%) SQL
3 17 (6.67%) Java
4 12 (4.71%) Bash
5 3 (1.18%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.18%) VBA
6 1 (0.39%) C
6 1 (0.39%) C#
6 1 (0.39%) C++
6 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.39%) Magik
6 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.16%) DV Cleared
3 17 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (6.27%) CCNP
5 15 (5.88%) Degree
5 15 (5.88%) ISEB
5 15 (5.88%) ISTQB
5 15 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 11 (4.31%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.75%) CISM
7 7 (2.75%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.96%) APMP
9 5 (1.96%) PMP
10 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.18%) CISSP
11 3 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.78%) ACCA
12 2 (0.78%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.71%) SLA
2 7 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.35%) QA
3 6 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.96%) P3O
5 4 (1.57%) GDPR
6 3 (1.18%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.18%) PMO
7 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.78%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.78%) NCSC
7 2 (0.78%) NIST
7 2 (0.78%) OASIS TOSCA
7 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) MIL-STD-1553
8 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 46 (18.04%) Microsoft
3 34 (13.33%) Cisco
4 17 (6.67%) Juniper
5 15 (5.88%) Virgin Media
6 13 (5.10%) Remedy
7 12 (4.71%) Databricks
8 10 (3.92%) Oracle
8 10 (3.92%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.53%) Salesforce
10 8 (3.14%) BT
11 6 (2.35%) BMC
11 6 (2.35%) IFS
12 5 (1.96%) Dell
13 4 (1.57%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.57%) F5
13 4 (1.57%) Nokia
14 3 (1.18%) Ericsson
14 3 (1.18%) Huawei
14 3 (1.18%) Splunk