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 22 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 47 61
Rank change year-on-year -32 +14 +41
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 59 65 53
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.61% 3.89% 2.92%
As % of the General category 4.49% 6.31% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 27
10th Percentile £272 £291 £320
25th Percentile £351 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% +16.13%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £515
90th Percentile £590 £540 £558
England median daily rate £461 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -8.21% +0.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £18.75 - £13.44
25th Percentile £22.13 - £13.72
Median hourly rate £33.23 - £14.31
75th Percentile £40.46 - £14.78
90th Percentile - - £14.98
England median hourly rate £22.79 £58.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -61.21% +6.82% +7.32%

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 common skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,314 1,030 992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 58.12% 61.57% 54.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 643 683
10th Percentile £212 £206 £222
25th Percentile £388 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £576 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 39 43
10th Percentile £13.78 £14.70 £14.22
25th Percentile £16.00 £19.07 £16.22
Median hourly rate £22.51 £23.82 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% +32.33% +2.16%
75th Percentile £30.00 £31.78 £31.25
90th Percentile £40.46 £50.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% -13.04% +34.69%

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 22 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in the West Midlands

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 22 December 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
Birmingham -25 24 £525 +5.00% 24
Warwickshire +13 18 £470 -18.26% 6
Shropshire -38 4 £515 - 7
Coventry - 4 £325 - 8
Worcestershire -19 2 £375 +30.43% 4
Staffordshire - 2 £350 - 10
Walsall - 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 (5.08%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) IIS
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.08%) Azure
1 3 (5.08%) GitHub
1 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (3.39%) AWS
3 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.69%) n8n
3 1 (1.69%) Power Automate
3 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.69%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) Firewall
2 9 (15.25%) WAN
3 8 (13.56%) VPN
3 8 (13.56%) Wireless
4 7 (11.86%) LAN
4 7 (11.86%) Network Security
5 6 (10.17%) Cisco IPT
5 6 (10.17%) DMVPN
5 6 (10.17%) DNS
5 6 (10.17%) IPsec
5 6 (10.17%) SSL
6 5 (8.47%) VoIP
7 3 (5.08%) Broadband
8 2 (3.39%) H.323
8 2 (3.39%) MPLS
8 2 (3.39%) PSTN
8 2 (3.39%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (3.39%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.39%) Unified Communications
8 2 (3.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.39%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) GitLab
1 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
1 4 (6.78%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.69%) Git
3 1 (1.69%) JUnit
3 1 (1.69%) Maven
3 1 (1.69%) Mockito
3 1 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 20 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.12%) Finance
3 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Marketing
5 5 (8.47%) Legal
6 4 (6.78%) Electronics
7 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.39%) Automotive
8 2 (3.39%) Banking
8 2 (3.39%) General Ledger
8 2 (3.39%) Law
8 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (11.86%) Consultant
1 7 (11.86%) Network Engineer
2 6 (10.17%) Security Engineer
3 5 (8.47%) Architect
3 5 (8.47%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 5 (8.47%) Project Manager
3 5 (8.47%) Security Specialist
3 5 (8.47%) Senior
4 3 (5.08%) Agile Project Manager
4 3 (5.08%) Field Engineer
4 3 (5.08%) Lead
4 3 (5.08%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (5.08%) Pega Architect
4 3 (5.08%) Pega Consultant
4 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (5.08%) Senior Architect
4 3 (5.08%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (5.08%) Telecoms Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) Desktop Support Technician
5 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) 802.1X
2 4 (6.78%) REST
3 3 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.08%) Kafka
3 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (5.08%) SOAP
4 1 (1.69%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.69%) JPA
4 1 (1.69%) JSON
4 1 (1.69%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.69%) RESTful
4 1 (1.69%) Spring
4 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.69%) Swagger
4 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.17%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (10.17%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.08%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.39%) Infotainment
4 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.69%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) NHS
5 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Windows
2 2 (3.39%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.73%) Agile
2 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (13.56%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (11.86%) Change Management
4 7 (11.86%) Data Protection
4 7 (11.86%) Inventory Management
4 7 (11.86%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (10.17%) Mentoring
5 6 (10.17%) Project Management
5 6 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (8.47%) Service Delivery
6 5 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (6.78%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (6.78%) CI/CD
7 4 (6.78%) ITIL
7 4 (6.78%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 4 (6.78%) Red Team
7 4 (6.78%) Scrum
7 4 (6.78%) Supplier Management
7 4 (6.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.08%) Go
1 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
1 3 (5.08%) Python
2 2 (3.39%) ABAP
3 1 (1.69%) Bicep
3 1 (1.69%) Java
3 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) CCNP
3 5 (8.47%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (8.47%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) CCA
4 2 (3.39%) CCNA
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.69%) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) QA
2 4 (6.78%) SLA
3 2 (3.39%) GDPR
3 2 (3.39%) PERC
4 1 (1.69%) GRC
4 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.69%) PMO
4 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.08%) Ansible
2 3 (5.08%) Argo
2 3 (5.08%) Grafana
2 3 (5.08%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.69%) Kibana
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Cisco
2 8 (13.56%) F5
2 8 (13.56%) Juniper
3 7 (11.86%) CheckPoint
4 6 (10.17%) Blue Coat
4 6 (10.17%) SAP
5 3 (5.08%) Pega
6 2 (3.39%) Ericsson
6 2 (3.39%) Huawei
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.39%) Nokia
6 2 (3.39%) Verint
7 1 (1.69%) Ariba
7 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.69%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle
7 1 (1.69%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.69%) VMware