Telecoms Architect Contracts

Telecommunications Architect
UK

The median Telecommunications Architect daily rate in the UK is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 575 699
Rank change year-on-year +70 +124 +143
Contract jobs requiring a Telecoms Architect 15 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.016% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.017% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 12
10th Percentile £495 - £513
25th Percentile £500 £363 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £394 £675
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -41.67% +3.85%
75th Percentile £654 £431 £719
90th Percentile £749 £454 £933
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £375 £575
% change year-on-year +33.33% -34.78% +39.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.63
25th Percentile - - £67.19
Median hourly rate - - £68.75
75th Percentile - - £69.69
90th Percentile - - £69.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £67.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Telecoms Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms Architect in the UK

Telecoms Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms Architect.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms Architect in the UK

Telecoms Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms Architect in the UK

Telecoms Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms Architect in the UK

Telecoms Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 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
England +68 15 £506 +35.00% 1
UK excluding London +68 9 £500 +33.33%
South East +50 8 £500 +33.33%
Work from Home +45 6 £500 -
London - 6 £769 - 1
North West - 1 £735 -
North of England - 1 £735 -

Telecoms Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Telecoms Architect in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) AWS
4 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
4 4 (26.67%) OpenStack
4 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) Linux
4 4 (26.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Edge Computing
4 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
5 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (20.00%) HTTP
5 3 (20.00%) HTML
5 3 (20.00%) CSS
5 3 (20.00%) SOAP
5 3 (20.00%) Web Services
5 3 (20.00%) XML
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Service Management
5 3 (20.00%) Change Management
5 3 (20.00%) ITSM
5 3 (20.00%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) CMDB
5 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (20.00%) Ajax
5 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning

Telecoms Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (26.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 15 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Ajax
1 3 (20.00%) CSS
1 3 (20.00%) HTML
1 3 (20.00%) REST
1 3 (20.00%) SOAP
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
1 3 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
2 4 (26.67%) Edge Computing
2 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) ITSM
3 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) Service Management
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) BT
3 1 (6.67%) Openreach
3 1 (6.67%) Virgin Media