Telecoms Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Telecommunications Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Telecommunications Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 395 441
Rank change year-on-year +65 +46 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Telecoms Architect 9 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.019% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.021% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £485 - £523
25th Percentile - £363 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £575
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -34.78% +39.39%
75th Percentile £541 £428 £644
90th Percentile £606 £453 £678
UK median daily rate £506 £394 £675
% change year-on-year +28.57% -41.67% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Telecoms Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Telecoms Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms Architect in the UK excluding London

Telecoms Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms Architect in the UK excluding London

Telecoms Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms Architect in the UK excluding London

Telecoms Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +50 8 £500 +33.33%
North West - 1 £735 -
North of England - 1 £735 -
Telecoms Architect
UK

Telecoms Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Telecoms Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Telecoms Architect in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Ajax
3 3 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 3 (33.33%) REST
3 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Service Management
3 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) ITSM
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) CSS
3 3 (33.33%) SOAP
3 3 (33.33%) Web Services
3 3 (33.33%) XML
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (33.33%) HTTP
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 3 (33.33%) CMDB
3 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification

Telecoms Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 9 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Ajax
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) SOAP
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
1 3 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Change Management
1 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 3 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) ITSM
1 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 3 (33.33%) Scrum
1 3 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Refactoring
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) BT
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Openreach
2 1 (11.11%) Virgin Media