Telecoms Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Telecommunications
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 74 55
Rank change year-on-year -63 -19 +11
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 32 51 59
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.89% 2.80% 3.13%
As % of the General category 1.69% 4.47% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 27
10th Percentile £361 £243 £275
25th Percentile £422 £313 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.64% -24.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £581 £515 £567
90th Percentile £825 £598 £775
England median daily rate £475 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.13
Median hourly rate £13.00 £14.00 £12.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.29% -18.98%
75th Percentile - £31.12 £12.38
90th Percentile - £40.46 -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £20.66 £67.75
% change year-on-year +1.65% -69.51% +29.05%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 general skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,895 1,142 1,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 52.93% 62.71% 57.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 725 676
10th Percentile £325 £220 £213
25th Percentile £410 £390 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £487 £510
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.51% -1.69%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £731
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 85 54
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.48 £21.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £23.82
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +25.94% +11.83%
75th Percentile £36.03 £40.46 £32.27
90th Percentile £59.55 £50.00 £53.50
England median hourly rate £30.66 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +21.89% -35.26% +41.27%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Telecoms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Telecoms job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Telecoms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the West Midlands

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Telecoms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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
Birmingham -19 9 £413 +61.76% 43
Warwickshire -20 8 £750 +94.81% 6
Shropshire -39 5 £470 -8.74% 5
Coventry -24 2 £450 - 10
Worcestershire - 2 £575 - 2
Solihull -15 1 - - 8
Herefordshire - 1 - - 1
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) ArcGIS
3 1 (3.13%) IIS
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) SAP PSCD
2 3 (9.38%) SAP ERP
3 1 (3.13%) Primavera
3 1 (3.13%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (3.13%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (3.13%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) GitHub
3 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 3 (9.38%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.13%) n8n
6 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) WAN
2 6 (18.75%) LAN
3 4 (12.50%) BGP
3 4 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 3 (9.38%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (9.38%) NX-OS
4 3 (9.38%) TACACS
4 3 (9.38%) VXLAN
5 2 (6.25%) Firewall
5 2 (6.25%) PBX
5 2 (6.25%) Unified Communications
5 2 (6.25%) VoIP
5 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.13%) Broadband
6 1 (3.13%) DMVPN
6 1 (3.13%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.13%) IPsec
6 1 (3.13%) SSL
6 1 (3.13%) Value-Added Service
6 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (9.38%) SAP BW
1 3 (9.38%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (6.25%) GIS
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) GitLab
2 3 (9.38%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) JUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Maven
3 1 (3.13%) Mockito
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) General Ledger
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Billing
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Consultant
3 4 (12.50%) Field Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 4 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) Automation Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Data Centre Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Data Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Data Science Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Network Architect
4 3 (9.38%) SAP BW Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Data Scientist
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) NOC Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) JSON
1 4 (12.50%) REST
1 4 (12.50%) YAML
2 1 (3.13%) JPA
2 1 (3.13%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.13%) RESTful
2 1 (3.13%) Spring
2 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.38%) AI Agents
2 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Photography
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (21.88%) AI
3 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (15.63%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (12.50%) Analytics
4 4 (12.50%) Change Management
4 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (12.50%) CRM
4 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 4 (12.50%) Generative AI
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (12.50%) Master Data Management
4 4 (12.50%) Project Management
4 4 (12.50%) Revenue Management
4 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.38%) Cost Centre Accounting
5 3 (9.38%) ERP
5 3 (9.38%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (9.38%) ABAP
3 1 (3.13%) Bicep
3 1 (3.13%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (9.38%) CCA
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) CBAP
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) CCNP
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CSPO
5 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) PMO
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
1 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (9.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Kibana
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Cisco
2 5 (15.63%) Red Hat
2 5 (15.63%) SAP
2 5 (15.63%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 3 (9.38%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.13%) Adobe
5 1 (3.13%) Autodesk
5 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.13%) F5
5 1 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) Juniper
5 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) Proofpoint
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) Samsung
5 1 (3.13%) Symantec