Telecoms Contracts in South Wales

Telecommunications
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 21 46
Rank change year-on-year -9 +25 +27
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 4 21 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.67% 6.27% 1.73%
As % of the General category 3.08% 14.58% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile - - £157
25th Percentile £358 £358 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £365 £160
Median % change year-on-year - +128.13% -61.90%
75th Percentile £411 £373 £255
90th Percentile £435 - £383
Wales median daily rate £365 £365 £185
% change year-on-year - +97.30% -55.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All General Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 130 144 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 54.17% 42.99% 47.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 80 177
10th Percentile £161 £143 £171
25th Percentile £257 £198 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £480 £591 £575
90th Percentile £588 £625 £628
Wales median daily rate £388 £473 £450
% change year-on-year -17.99% +5.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 12
10th Percentile £15.20 £11.02 -
25th Percentile £18.06 £12.78 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £23.93 £10.92
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% +119.14% -49.50%
75th Percentile £41.25 £62.19 £14.27
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.80 £48.11
Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £22.68 £11.56
% change year-on-year -7.41% +96.19% -51.33%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in South Wales

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in South Wales

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in South Wales

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 3 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
Newport -9 3 £365 - 15
Gwent - 1 £450 - 3
Telecoms
Wales

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) IIBA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce