Telecoms Contracts in South London

Telecommunications
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 40 53
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 7 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.80% 1.24% 0.26%
As % of the General category 5.60% 2.26% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £183 -
25th Percentile - £269 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -26.09% +112.96%
75th Percentile - £438 £588
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £513 £514 £519
% change year-on-year -0.19% -1.01% -1.19%

All General Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 125 133 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 67.93% 55.19% 66.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 82 200
10th Percentile £348 £200 £298
25th Percentile £450 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £571 £697
90th Percentile £938 £634 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 13
10th Percentile - £16.06 £18.75
25th Percentile - £17.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -49.32%
75th Percentile £20.38 £61.49 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year +19.30% -11.63% -11.64%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in South London

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in South London

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in South London

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Croydon +10 5 - - 1
Bromley - 1 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 - -
Telecoms
London

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 1 (14.29%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (71.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) Gradle
2 5 (71.43%) JUnit
2 5 (71.43%) Liquibase
2 5 (71.43%) Mockito
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 6 (85.71%) Electronics
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Manufacturing
1 6 (85.71%) Marketing
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Java Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Control Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Kafka
1 5 (71.43%) OpenAPI
1 5 (71.43%) React
1 5 (71.43%) Spring
1 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
1 5 (71.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (85.71%) Digital Marketing
1 6 (85.71%) Programme Management
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Siemens