Telecoms Contracts in the UK excluding London

Telecommunications
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 53 40 62
Rank change year-on-year -13 +22 -10
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 534 874 890
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.18% 4.21% 3.70%
As % of the General category 6.72% 7.69% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 434 573
10th Percentile £305 £180 £205
25th Percentile £360 £307 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 82 35
10th Percentile - £12.15 £16.33
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% - +133.33%
75th Percentile £47.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.24 £85.00 £96.75
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.18% +4.76% +61.54%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,944 11,365 13,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.23% 54.72% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,914 6,491 9,285
10th Percentile £213 £205 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £597 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 1,652 782
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £24.71 £28.42 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% -6.94% +65.08%
75th Percentile £55.76 £52.84 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £69.95
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
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 within the UK excluding London 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
South East +11 296 £491 +20.80% 332
South West -23 74 £525 -8.70% 92
North of England -14 68 £524 +39.67% 187
North West +8 47 £525 +50.00% 117
Midlands -22 34 £513 +13.89% 144
East of England -9 27 £400 +6.67% 120
West Midlands -23 25 £513 +13.89% 89
Scotland +7 24 £325 -31.58% 58
Yorkshire -24 12 £550 +22.22% 56
East Midlands +4 9 £625 +127.27% 46
North East +2 9 £419 -14.97% 17
Northern Ireland -9 7 £550 -8.33% 12
Wales -16 4 £365 - 34
Channel Islands -3 2 - -
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.75%) Confluence
4 2 (0.37%) Appian
4 2 (0.37%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.37%) Camunda
4 2 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.37%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) CMS
5 1 (0.19%) Mule
5 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.19%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.37%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.31%) SAP BRIM
2 7 (1.31%) SAP Hybris
2 7 (1.31%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.19%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 78 (14.61%) Azure
2 39 (7.30%) AWS
3 29 (5.43%) GCP
4 25 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (3.00%) SaaS
6 14 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.43%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.43%) PaaS
8 10 (1.87%) IaaS
9 8 (1.50%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.31%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 6 (1.12%) OpenShift
12 5 (0.94%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.75%) Azure AKS
13 4 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.75%) GitHub
13 4 (0.75%) Serverless
14 3 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.56%) Azure Functions
15 2 (0.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.30%) 5G
2 38 (7.12%) WAN
3 35 (6.55%) MPLS
4 34 (6.37%) LTE
5 33 (6.18%) Radio Access Network
6 32 (5.99%) Firewall
7 30 (5.62%) VPN
8 27 (5.06%) 4G
8 27 (5.06%) LAN
9 26 (4.87%) Network Security
10 25 (4.68%) Ethernet
11 24 (4.49%) SAN
12 21 (3.93%) Wireshark
13 20 (3.75%) BGP
13 20 (3.75%) VoIP
14 19 (3.56%) SDH
15 17 (3.18%) GSM
16 16 (3.00%) ATM
16 16 (3.00%) GPRS
16 16 (3.00%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.62%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.75%) Power BI
6 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.56%) Power Query
7 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.37%) Big Data
7 2 (0.37%) Redis
7 2 (0.37%) Tableau
8 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.19%) GIS
8 1 (0.19%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.19%) MySQL
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (3.37%) Jenkins
2 14 (2.62%) JIRA
3 13 (2.43%) GitLab
4 11 (2.06%) Git
5 10 (1.87%) Gradle
5 10 (1.87%) JUnit
5 10 (1.87%) Liquibase
5 10 (1.87%) Mockito
6 9 (1.69%) Selenium
7 5 (0.94%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.56%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.37%) NUnit
9 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.37%) Vite
10 1 (0.19%) ERwin
10 1 (0.19%) Postman
10 1 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 178 (33.33%) Finance
2 158 (29.59%) Public Sector
3 141 (26.40%) Marketing
4 133 (24.91%) Electronics
5 130 (24.34%) Manufacturing
6 129 (24.16%) Social Skills
7 72 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (6.74%) Billing
9 29 (5.43%) Legal
10 20 (3.75%) Retail
11 11 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.87%) Law
13 9 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.31%) Banking
14 7 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.31%) Military
15 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.75%) Back Office
17 2 (0.37%) German Language
17 2 (0.37%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 63 (11.80%) Architect
2 38 (7.12%) Developer
3 37 (6.93%) Senior
4 34 (6.37%) Analyst
5 25 (4.68%) Test Engineer
6 23 (4.31%) Project Manager
6 23 (4.31%) Support Engineer
6 23 (4.31%) Telecoms Manager
7 22 (4.12%) Network Engineer
8 21 (3.93%) Active Directory Architect
9 20 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (3.75%) IP Engineer
10 18 (3.37%) Designer
10 18 (3.37%) Lead
11 17 (3.18%) Administrator
11 17 (3.18%) Consultant
11 17 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
12 16 (3.00%) IT Manager
13 15 (2.81%) Operations Manager
14 14 (2.62%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.00%) CSS
1 16 (3.00%) HTML
2 14 (2.62%) OpenAPI
2 14 (2.62%) React
2 14 (2.62%) Swagger
3 13 (2.43%) REST
4 12 (2.25%) .NET
4 12 (2.25%) Kafka
5 10 (1.87%) Spring
5 10 (1.87%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.69%) Web Services
7 6 (1.12%) JSON
7 6 (1.12%) RESTful
7 6 (1.12%) XML
8 5 (0.94%) Gherkin
8 5 (0.94%) SOAP
9 4 (0.75%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.75%) Node.js
9 4 (0.75%) PySpark
9 4 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.18%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.00%) NHS
5 15 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.62%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.25%) Blackberry
8 11 (2.06%) Video Conferencing
9 10 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.87%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.31%) Fibre Optics
10 7 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.31%) TM Forum
11 6 (1.12%) CMDB
12 5 (0.94%) Frameworx
12 5 (0.94%) IVR
12 5 (0.94%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.75%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (13.11%) Windows
2 31 (5.81%) Linux
3 18 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.18%) Unix
5 15 (2.81%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.75%) Check Point GAiA
7 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.56%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.37%) Android
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (25.47%) Business Intelligence
2 132 (24.72%) Programme Management
3 129 (24.16%) Digital Marketing
4 109 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 101 (18.91%) Agile
6 64 (11.99%) Project Management
7 52 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (9.36%) CI/CD
8 50 (9.36%) Test Automation
9 47 (8.80%) ITIL
10 45 (8.43%) Change Management
11 40 (7.49%) DevOps
12 39 (7.30%) Service Delivery
13 34 (6.37%) Migration
13 34 (6.37%) Project Delivery
13 34 (6.37%) Roadmaps
14 33 (6.18%) Service Management
15 32 (5.99%) Software Engineering
16 31 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (5.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 44 (8.24%) PowerShell
2 36 (6.74%) Java
2 36 (6.74%) Python
3 29 (5.43%) SQL
4 17 (3.18%) TypeScript
5 14 (2.62%) Bash
6 13 (2.43%) JavaScript
7 12 (2.25%) C#
8 5 (0.94%) C++
9 3 (0.56%) Bicep
9 3 (0.56%) Perl
9 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.56%) VBA
10 2 (0.37%) Go
10 2 (0.37%) Groovy
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) Magik
11 1 (0.19%) R
11 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 131 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 74 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.86%) DV Cleared
4 52 (9.74%) Degree
5 38 (7.12%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (6.55%) CCNP
7 26 (4.87%) Azure Certification
8 22 (4.12%) ISEB
9 18 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (3.00%) ISTQB
11 16 (3.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 12 (2.25%) PMI Certification
13 11 (2.06%) CISM
13 11 (2.06%) PMP
14 10 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (1.50%) AWS Certification
16 7 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.06%) QA
2 22 (4.12%) SLA
3 13 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.31%) GDPR
5 5 (0.94%) JSP 440
6 4 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.75%) NIST
7 3 (0.56%) GRC
7 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.56%) NCSC
8 2 (0.37%) NEBOSH
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) RMADS
8 2 (0.37%) WCAG
9 1 (0.19%) ITGC
9 1 (0.19%) MIL-STD-1553
9 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.19%) P3O
9 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 43 (8.05%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.43%) Docker
3 23 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.43%) vSphere
5 4 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.37%) Ceph
6 2 (0.37%) NFS
6 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.19%) Firmware
7 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (2.43%) Ansible
4 8 (1.50%) Terraform
5 7 (1.31%) Amdocs OSS
6 5 (0.94%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.75%) NSN NetAct
8 3 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.56%) SCCM
9 2 (0.37%) Argo
9 2 (0.37%) Grafana
9 2 (0.37%) Puppet
9 2 (0.37%) vRealize
9 2 (0.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 1 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 138 (25.84%) SAP
2 81 (15.17%) Microsoft
3 73 (13.67%) Cisco
4 34 (6.37%) Nokia
5 33 (6.18%) VMware
6 30 (5.62%) Juniper
7 26 (4.87%) Ericsson
8 19 (3.56%) ServiceNow
9 17 (3.18%) Google
10 16 (3.00%) F5
11 14 (2.62%) Remedy
11 14 (2.62%) Splunk
12 12 (2.25%) Avaya
12 12 (2.25%) Virgin Media
13 11 (2.06%) Dynatrace
13 11 (2.06%) Palo Alto
14 10 (1.87%) CheckPoint
14 10 (1.87%) Databricks
14 10 (1.87%) Ribbon
15 9 (1.69%) Salesforce