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 24 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 50 55
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 11 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.09% 0.74% 1.52%
As % of the General category 5.64% 1.65% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £325
25th Percentile £358 £385 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £390 £420
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £373 £395 £556
90th Percentile - - £590
Wales median daily rate £365 £390 £420
% change year-on-year -6.41% -7.14% -20.00%

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 195 182 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 54.78% 44.83% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 119 287
10th Percentile £121 £178 £293
25th Percentile £169 £263 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £516 £594 £575
90th Percentile £609 £650 £655
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 24 11
10th Percentile £19.75 £10.92 £14.55
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.73 £19.71
Median hourly rate £26.05 £24.96 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +23.31% +3.79%
75th Percentile £52.81 £45.00 £24.38
90th Percentile £67.63 £56.13 £25.00
Wales median hourly rate £26.50 £23.92 £20.24
% change year-on-year +10.81% +18.16% +3.79%

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 24 September 2024. 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 - 7 £365 - 2
Cardiff +1 3 - -
Gwent - 1 - - 1
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:

Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Mandarin Language
3 3 (27.27%) Electronics
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
3 3 (27.27%) Marketing
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre Technician
1 3 (27.27%) Data Technician
1 3 (27.27%) Hardware Technician
1 3 (27.27%) Network Technician
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Data Centre
2 4 (36.36%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Project Delivery
1 7 (63.64%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
2 3 (27.27%) Data Centre Operations
2 3 (27.27%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Programme Management
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) VMware