Telecoms Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Telecommunications
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Stevenage. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 32 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 4 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 1.10% 1.48% 2.03%
As % of the General category 2.26% 2.60% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £633 £526 -
25th Percentile £664 £526 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £540 £400
Median % change year-on-year +26.11% +35.00% -
75th Percentile - £564 £450
90th Percentile - £571 -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £190 £540 £400
% change year-on-year -64.81% +35.00% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -44.00%

All General Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 177 77 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 48.76% 57.04% 66.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 17 21
10th Percentile £413 £346 £300
25th Percentile £450 £450 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% +31.25% -
75th Percentile £629 £625 £550
90th Percentile £738 £630 £600
Hertfordshire median daily rate £492 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -10.55% +37.50% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 38 225
10th Percentile £25.94 £31.64 £38.12
25th Percentile £40.00 £42.19 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.11 £65.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £27.96 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.16% +10.00% -16.67%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Telecoms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Telecoms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Acoustics
1 3 (75.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Debian
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (75.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat