Telecoms Contract Job Trends 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 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 31 38
Rank change year-on-year -17 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 2 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.63% 3.49% 0.57%
As % of the General category 1.18% 5.50% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £552 - -
25th Percentile £601 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £744 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.25%
75th Percentile £826 - £438
90th Percentile £841 - -
London median daily rate £520 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% -5.66%

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 general skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 169 109 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 53.48% 63.37% 53.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 60 63
10th Percentile £403 £213 £286
25th Percentile £450 £405 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £609 £569
90th Percentile £725 £706 £723
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.70 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £17.85 £15.84 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.69% -18.77% -61.32%
75th Percentile £19.50 - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £28.55 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% -14.29% +0.55%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Telecoms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Telecoms job vacancy trend in South London

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Telecoms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in South London over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in South London

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Telecoms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Telecoms

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 August 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
Croydon -12 2 £744 - 1
Telecoms
London

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) IPv4
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google