Telecoms Contracts in the South West

Telecommunications
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 21 42
Rank change year-on-year -23 +21 -9
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 74 226 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.41% 7.06% 5.10%
As % of the General category 7.70% 13.69% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 126 152
10th Percentile £305 £158 £377
25th Percentile £355 £359 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £675
90th Percentile £682 £781 £774
England median daily rate £500 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 34 8
10th Percentile £34.92 - £68.25
25th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £77.81
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £91.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -23.29% +356.25%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £101.25
90th Percentile - £95.00 £101.63
England median hourly rate £24.17 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -56.06% +4.76% +40.00%

All General Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 961 1,651 1,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.27% 51.61% 49.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 989 1,321
10th Percentile £218 £213 £275
25th Percentile £399 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +11.79%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £634
90th Percentile £678 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 269 128
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £17.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.63 £37.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.35
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -23.13% +34.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.50 £87.58
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in the South West

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol -6 53 £388 -32.02% 20
Wiltshire -13 12 £625 -16.67% 12
Somerset -1 2 £525 -12.50% 7
Devon +4 1 - - 14
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (4.05%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.35%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.32%) Azure
2 13 (17.57%) AWS
3 12 (16.22%) SaaS
4 11 (14.86%) PaaS
5 8 (10.81%) GCP
6 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.35%) Serverless
8 1 (1.35%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.92%) PBX
1 14 (18.92%) VoIP
2 11 (14.86%) 5G
3 7 (9.46%) 4G
4 5 (6.76%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (6.76%) Unified Communications
5 4 (5.41%) 2G
5 4 (5.41%) Broadband
5 4 (5.41%) Firewall
5 4 (5.41%) WAN
6 3 (4.05%) ISDN
6 3 (4.05%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.70%) BGP
7 2 (2.70%) GPON
7 2 (2.70%) IPv6
7 2 (2.70%) MPLS
7 2 (2.70%) Network Security
7 2 (2.70%) VPN
7 2 (2.70%) Wireless
8 1 (1.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.35%) Metadata
1 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) JIRA
2 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.70%) NUnit
3 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.35%) Git
3 1 (1.35%) GitLab
3 1 (1.35%) Postman
3 1 (1.35%) Selenium
3 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (52.70%) Finance
2 37 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 36 (48.65%) Electronics
3 36 (48.65%) Manufacturing
4 35 (47.30%) Marketing
5 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
6 7 (9.46%) Billing
7 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (5.41%) Military
9 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.35%) Legal
9 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
1 8 (10.81%) Project Manager
1 8 (10.81%) Support Engineer
2 7 (9.46%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (9.46%) Applications Support
2 7 (9.46%) Applications Support Engineer
2 7 (9.46%) Azure Developer
2 7 (9.46%) C# Developer
2 7 (9.46%) Developer
3 6 (8.11%) Applications Developer
3 6 (8.11%) C# Application Developer
3 6 (8.11%) Lead
3 6 (8.11%) Senior
3 6 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (5.41%) Coordinator
4 4 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (5.41%) OSS Project Manager
4 4 (5.41%) Project Coordinator
4 4 (5.41%) Telecoms Manager
4 4 (5.41%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.86%) .NET
2 7 (9.46%) CSS
2 7 (9.46%) HTML
3 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.70%) Playwright
5 1 (1.35%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.35%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.35%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.35%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.35%) Swagger
5 1 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) Blackberry
1 10 (13.51%) Video Conferencing
2 8 (10.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.41%) Fibre Optics
3 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.05%) IVR
5 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) NHS
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) PKI
6 1 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Windows
2 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.35%) Android
3 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.30%) Business Intelligence
1 35 (47.30%) Digital Marketing
1 35 (47.30%) Programme Management
2 21 (28.38%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (22.97%) Agile
4 14 (18.92%) Service Management
5 13 (17.57%) Project Management
5 13 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (16.22%) CI/CD
6 12 (16.22%) Migration
7 11 (14.86%) Commercial Awareness
7 11 (14.86%) Customer Requirements
7 11 (14.86%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (14.86%) Software Delivery
7 11 (14.86%) Test Automation
8 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (13.51%) Service Delivery
8 10 (13.51%) Software Engineering
8 10 (13.51%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.51%) C#
2 8 (10.81%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.05%) SQL
5 2 (2.70%) Bash
5 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 22 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 20 (27.03%) DV Cleared
4 15 (20.27%) Degree
5 13 (17.57%) CCNP
5 13 (17.57%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (13.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (9.46%) Azure Certification
7 7 (9.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (5.41%) CISSP
8 4 (5.41%) PMI Certification
8 4 (5.41%) PMP
9 3 (4.05%) CCNA
10 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.70%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (2.70%) CISA
10 2 (2.70%) CISM
10 2 (2.70%) CLAS
11 1 (1.35%) CRISC
11 1 (1.35%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.70%) JSP 440
2 2 (2.70%) NIST
2 2 (2.70%) RMADS
3 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) GRC
3 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 11 (14.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.41%) Docker
3 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) Amdocs OSS
2 3 (4.05%) Terraform
3 2 (2.70%) Ansible
3 2 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.70%) NSN NetAct
3 2 (2.70%) Puppet
4 1 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (47.30%) SAP
2 22 (29.73%) Ericsson
3 21 (28.38%) Nokia
4 16 (21.62%) Cisco
5 11 (14.86%) F5
5 11 (14.86%) Juniper
5 11 (14.86%) Palo Alto
5 11 (14.86%) VMware
6 10 (13.51%) Avaya
6 10 (13.51%) Ribbon
7 7 (9.46%) Google
7 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
8 4 (5.41%) Amdocs
8 4 (5.41%) Ciena
8 4 (5.41%) NetCracker
9 2 (2.70%) Citrix
10 1 (1.35%) Apple
10 1 (1.35%) Dell
10 1 (1.35%) HP
10 1 (1.35%) Splunk