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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 549 665
Rank change year-on-year +13 +116 +188
Contract jobs citing Telnet 10 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.018% 0.004%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.25% 0.15% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £215 - £551
25th Percentile £306 £275 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £300 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -55.56% +63.64%
75th Percentile £488 £325 £753
90th Percentile £491 - £789
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 3,929 4,738 6,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.93% 12.23% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,350 2,889 4,298
10th Percentile £245 £221 £228
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 315 256
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £16.19
25th Percentile £25.11 £20.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £45.63 £49.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% -10.91% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.58 £73.75 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £56.49
% change year-on-year -22.55% -2.86% +46.73%

Telnet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Telnet in the UK

Telnet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Telnet in the UK

Telnet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telnet over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telnet in the UK

Telnet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Telnet in the UK

Telnet
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 Telnet within the UK over the 6 months to 18 August 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 +29 10 £338 +12.50% 6
London +8 5 £475 +58.33% 1
UK excluding London - 5 £325 - 5
East Midlands - 3 £134 - 4
Midlands - 3 £134 - 4
South East - 2 £325 - 1
Work from Home +19 1 £325 -

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 1 (10.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) SSH
2 5 (50.00%) Network Security
3 4 (40.00%) SNMP
4 3 (30.00%) Firewall
4 3 (30.00%) PuTTY
4 3 (30.00%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (30.00%) Wireshark
5 2 (20.00%) DHCP
5 2 (20.00%) DMZ
5 2 (20.00%) DNS
5 2 (20.00%) FTP
5 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (20.00%) SMTP
5 2 (20.00%) VLAN
5 2 (20.00%) WAN
6 1 (10.00%) DSLAM
6 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
6 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Break Fix Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Fibre Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Support
4 1 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
1 3 (30.00%) XML
2 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 8
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (30.00%) Break/Fix
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Database Tuning
2 3 (30.00%) Event Correlation
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (30.00%) SIEM
2 3 (30.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Line Management
3 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Observability
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) CEH
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) SLA
2 2 (20.00%) GRC
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Firmware
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (30.00%) BitLocker
3 3 (30.00%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (30.00%) iptables
4 2 (20.00%) NFS
5 1 (10.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Cacti
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Nagios
1 3 (30.00%) Netcool
1 3 (30.00%) Proxmox
1 3 (30.00%) Puppet
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
1 3 (30.00%) ZABBIX
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Graylog
3 1 (10.00%) logstash
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Dell
2 3 (30.00%) Draytek
2 3 (30.00%) McAfee
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Nokia
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Qualys
3 2 (20.00%) Tenable
4 1 (10.00%) Huawei
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto