Telnet Contracts

Telnet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Telnet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telnet 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 506 575 717
Rank change year-on-year +69 +142 +132
Contract jobs citing Telnet 14 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.016% 0.002%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.12% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 £263 £788
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £288 £800
Median % change year-on-year +45.65% -64.06% +52.38%
75th Percentile £488 £325 £813
90th Percentile £491 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Telnet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,722 5,629 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.92% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 3,368 4,786
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

Telnet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Telnet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Telnet in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Telnet in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Telnet in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Telnet in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telnet 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 +64 14 £419 +45.65% 2
UK excluding London +73 11 £325 - 2
South East - 11 £325 -
Work from Home - 5 £325 - 2
London +35 3 £475 +65.22% 1

Telnet
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 8 (57.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) DHCP
1 11 (78.57%) DNS
1 11 (78.57%) FTP
1 11 (78.57%) SMTP
2 4 (28.57%) tcpdump
3 3 (21.43%) Network Security
3 3 (21.43%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (21.43%) SNMP
3 3 (21.43%) SSH
3 3 (21.43%) Wireshark
4 1 (7.14%) DSLAM
4 1 (7.14%) Firewall
4 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Administrator
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support
1 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Fibre Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) LDAP
2 3 (21.43%) JSON
2 3 (21.43%) XML
3 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 7 (50.00%) Workflow
2 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (35.71%) Workflow Management
4 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Server Migrations
5 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Database Tuning
5 3 (21.43%) Event Correlation
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (21.43%) SIEM
6 2 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) Python
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) NFS
2 8 (57.14%) Samba
3 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 3 (21.43%) FreeRADIUS
4 3 (21.43%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) yum
2 6 (42.86%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) Cacti
3 3 (21.43%) Grafana
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (21.43%) Nagios
3 3 (21.43%) Netcool
3 3 (21.43%) Proxmox
3 3 (21.43%) Puppet
3 3 (21.43%) ZABBIX
4 2 (14.29%) Terraform
5 1 (7.14%) Graylog
5 1 (7.14%) logstash
5 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 3 (21.43%) HP
3 3 (21.43%) Nokia
3 3 (21.43%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) Huawei
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto