Telecoms Contracts in Wales

Telecommunications
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Wales. 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 39 23 50
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 +23
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 4 21 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.37% 5.32% 1.73%
As % of the General category 2.61% 11.80% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile - - £159
25th Percentile £358 £358 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £365 £185
Median % change year-on-year - +97.30% -55.95%
75th Percentile £411 £373 £219
90th Percentile £435 - £378
UK median daily rate £495 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.18% +4.76% +61.54%

All General Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 153 178 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 52.22% 45.06% 47.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 98 216
10th Percentile £166 £143 £164
25th Percentile £262 £203 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £552 £550
90th Percentile £600 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 14
10th Percentile £15.40 £11.39 -
25th Percentile £20.00 £11.88 £10.92
Median hourly rate £21.00 £22.68 £11.56
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +96.19% -51.33%
75th Percentile £41.25 £51.75 £29.84
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.40 £46.14
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 Wales

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in Wales

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in Wales

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in Wales

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Wales 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 Wales -10 4 £365 - 56
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) IIBA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce