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 advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 42 33
Rank change year-on-year +21 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 225 185 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.04% 5.10% 6.11%
As % of the General category 13.63% 10.32% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 152 176
10th Percentile £158 £377 £284
25th Percentile £359 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +21.05% -2.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £575
90th Percentile £781 £774 £675
England median daily rate £450 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 1
10th Percentile - £68.25 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £77.81 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £91.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% +356.25% -10.79%
75th Percentile £85.00 £101.25 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £101.63 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +40.00% +22.15%

All General Skills
South West

Telecoms is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,651 1,792 1,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 51.63% 49.42% 51.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 1,321 1,322
10th Percentile £213 £275 £225
25th Percentile £409 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +11.79% +4.84%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 128 134
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £19.55 £37.50 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £60.35 £44.71
Median % change year-on-year -25.43% +34.98% +11.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £55.48
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.58 £64.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £33.91 £21.50
% change year-on-year -11.53% +57.72% -4.44%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 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
Bristol +23 133 £570 +5.07% 26
Wiltshire +5 65 £750 +20.00% 7
Devon 0 11 £165 -68.57% 3
Somerset 0 6 £600 +60.00% 4
Gloucestershire -3 4 £400 -40.74% 12
Cornwall - 2 £190 - 1
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 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (6.67%) Azure
1 15 (6.67%) SaaS
2 13 (5.78%) PaaS
3 11 (4.89%) AWS
4 7 (3.11%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.44%) GCP
6 1 (0.44%) IaaS
6 1 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.67%) PBX
2 23 (10.22%) VoIP
3 22 (9.78%) 4G
4 19 (8.44%) WAN
5 15 (6.67%) Wireless
6 13 (5.78%) LTE
6 13 (5.78%) Radio Access Network
6 13 (5.78%) Wireshark
7 11 (4.89%) 3GPP
8 10 (4.44%) SDH
9 9 (4.00%) Firewall
10 8 (3.56%) LAN
11 7 (3.11%) 3G
12 5 (2.22%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.22%) VPN
13 4 (1.78%) Junos
14 2 (0.89%) FTP
14 2 (0.89%) Internet
14 2 (0.89%) RTP
14 2 (0.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (8.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.44%) Git
2 1 (0.44%) GitLab
2 1 (0.44%) GoCD
2 1 (0.44%) JIRA
2 1 (0.44%) NUnit
2 1 (0.44%) Postman
2 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (36.44%) Public Sector
2 78 (34.67%) Finance
3 73 (32.44%) Electronics
3 73 (32.44%) Manufacturing
3 73 (32.44%) Marketing
4 45 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 11 (4.89%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.00%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.56%) Military
9 7 (3.11%) Digital Economy
10 6 (2.67%) Police
11 5 (2.22%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.89%) Back Office
13 1 (0.44%) Legal
13 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (41.33%) Architect
2 49 (21.78%) Solutions Architect
3 37 (16.44%) Lead
4 28 (12.44%) Network Architect
5 27 (12.00%) Lead Architect
6 26 (11.56%) Systems Architect
7 12 (5.33%) Project Manager
8 11 (4.89%) Analyst
8 11 (4.89%) Change Manager
8 11 (4.89%) Field Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.44%) ITIL Manager
9 10 (4.44%) Network Engineer
10 9 (4.00%) ITIL Change Manager
10 9 (4.00%) Senior
10 9 (4.00%) Technical Architect
11 8 (3.56%) Change and Release Manager
11 8 (3.56%) ITIL Release Manager
11 8 (3.56%) Release Manager
11 8 (3.56%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.67%) XML
2 5 (2.22%) RESTful
3 2 (0.89%) .NET
3 2 (0.89%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.89%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.44%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.44%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.44%) Playwright
4 1 (0.44%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.56%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.33%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (4.89%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (4.44%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (4.00%) Blackberry
5 9 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.22%) Verilog
6 5 (2.22%) VHDL
7 4 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.78%) NHS
7 4 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.89%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.89%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.33%) Windows
2 5 (2.22%) Linux
3 4 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Solaris
5 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.44%) Unix
5 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (32.44%) Business Intelligence
1 73 (32.44%) Digital Marketing
1 73 (32.44%) Programme Management
2 59 (26.22%) ITIL
3 30 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 29 (12.89%) Agile
5 28 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (12.00%) Network Management
6 27 (12.00%) Project Management
7 26 (11.56%) ArchiMate
8 23 (10.22%) Systems Engineering
9 21 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (9.33%) TOGAF
10 20 (8.89%) Decision-Making
10 20 (8.89%) Roadmaps
10 20 (8.89%) Strategic Thinking
11 19 (8.44%) Change Management
12 18 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (7.56%) High Availability
13 17 (7.56%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.00%) Python
2 5 (2.22%) C
2 5 (2.22%) C++
3 3 (1.33%) SQL
4 2 (0.89%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.44%) Bash
5 1 (0.44%) Bicep
5 1 (0.44%) C#
5 1 (0.44%) Java
5 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 148 (65.78%) Security Cleared
2 106 (47.11%) SC Cleared
3 65 (28.89%) DV Cleared
4 44 (19.56%) Degree
5 13 (5.78%) HND
6 12 (5.33%) TOGAF Certification
7 9 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.00%) CCNP
7 9 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.22%) CESG Certified Professional
8 5 (2.22%) CISSP
9 4 (1.78%) CLAS
9 4 (1.78%) JNCIA
10 3 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.89%) CCNA
11 2 (0.89%) HNC
11 2 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.89%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.44%) APMP
12 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.78%) NIST
2 11 (4.89%) SLA
3 9 (4.00%) NIST 800
4 5 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.22%) JSP 440
4 5 (2.22%) RMADS
5 4 (1.78%) PMO
6 2 (0.89%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (4.44%) Docker
2 6 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.89%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.44%) NFS
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.44%) XenApp
6 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.78%) SCCM
3 3 (1.33%) Terraform
4 2 (0.89%) Ansible
4 2 (0.89%) Puppet
4 2 (0.89%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.44%) Grafana
5 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 73 (32.44%) SAP
2 35 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 34 (15.11%) Nokia
4 24 (10.67%) Cisco
5 20 (8.89%) Ericsson
5 20 (8.89%) Juniper
6 18 (8.00%) IBM
7 13 (5.78%) Actix
8 11 (4.89%) Huawei
9 10 (4.44%) BT
10 9 (4.00%) Avaya
10 9 (4.00%) Google
10 9 (4.00%) Ribbon
11 8 (3.56%) Remedy
12 7 (3.11%) BMC
12 7 (3.11%) VMware
13 6 (2.67%) Palo Alto
14 4 (1.78%) Ciena
14 4 (1.78%) SolarWinds
15 3 (1.33%) BiZZdesign