Telecoms Contract Job Trends 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 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 33 26
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +18
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 3 2 19
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.61% 0.80% 5.67%
As % of the General category 1.54% 1.32% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £230 £146 -
25th Percentile £275 £197 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £283 £365
Median % change year-on-year +23.89% -22.60% -6.41%
75th Percentile £425 £367 £373
90th Percentile £470 £417 -
Wales median daily rate £200 £215 £365
% change year-on-year -6.98% -41.10% -6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.13 - -
Median hourly rate £14.75 - -
75th Percentile £15.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £14.75 - -

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 general skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 195 152 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 39.80% 60.80% 54.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 100 88
10th Percentile £182 £213 £122
25th Percentile £306 £293 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £388 £373
Median % change year-on-year +24.52% +4.03% -17.22%
75th Percentile £588 £481 £516
90th Percentile £775 £541 £591
Wales median daily rate £468 £393 £400
% change year-on-year +19.11% -1.88% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 28
10th Percentile £16.23 £12.91 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.58 £13.08 £20.12
Median hourly rate £21.63 £14.61 £26.05
Median % change year-on-year +48.02% -43.92% +44.72%
75th Percentile £43.96 £16.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £53.88 £22.87 £67.63
Wales median hourly rate £21.63 £15.00 £25.48
% change year-on-year +44.17% -41.13% +59.25%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in South Wales

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in South Wales over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in South Wales

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

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 21 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
Gwent +2 1 - -
Newport - 1 £500 -
Glamorgan - 1 £200 - 11
Telecoms
Wales

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) 5G
1 1 (33.33%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Environmental Health
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Cabling Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Field Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (33.33%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Ergonomics
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
1 1 (33.33%) Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow