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 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 74 65
Rank change year-on-year -60 -9 +21
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 35 42 46
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.01% 2.56% 2.38%
As % of the General category 1.89% 4.07% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 28
10th Percentile £380 £123 £303
25th Percentile £425 £243 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £350 £523
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% -33.01% +19.43%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £738
90th Percentile £825 £625 £775
England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 4
10th Percentile £21.70 - £12.46
25th Percentile £34.75 - £12.97
Median hourly rate £58.00 £14.00 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year +314.29% +1.82% +5.77%
75th Percentile £59.50 - £14.00
90th Percentile - £35.17 -
England median hourly rate £24.50 £15.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +58.06% -74.17% +4.35%

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 1,853 1,032 1,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.32% 62.85% 54.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 640 720
10th Percentile £313 £206 £255
25th Percentile £402 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -8.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £562 £625
90th Percentile £675 £644 £750
England median daily rate £525 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 86 81
10th Percentile £15.80 £14.00 £12.13
25th Percentile £20.31 £16.13 £13.91
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.70 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% +45.76% -12.58%
75th Percentile £43.96 £39.32 £33.93
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.32 £38.12
% change year-on-year +34.26% -33.58% +26.86%

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 26 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

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 26 July 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
Warwickshire -14 13 £625 +4.17% 13
Birmingham -37 8 £450 +76.47% 22
Shropshire - 4 £450 -
Solihull -18 2 £575 -4.17% 2
Coventry - 2 £450 - 8
Worcestershire - 2 £575 - 1
Staffordshire -7 1 - - 6
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 2 (5.71%) ArcGIS
1 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) SAP PSCD
2 3 (8.57%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.86%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (2.86%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (2.86%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.57%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) WAN
2 6 (17.14%) LAN
3 4 (11.43%) Firewall
3 4 (11.43%) VPN
4 3 (8.57%) BGP
4 3 (8.57%) MPLS
4 3 (8.57%) OSPF
4 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
4 3 (8.57%) VLAN
5 2 (5.71%) 3GPP
5 2 (5.71%) DMVPN
5 2 (5.71%) IPsec
5 2 (5.71%) Network Security
5 2 (5.71%) PBX
5 2 (5.71%) SSL
5 2 (5.71%) Unified Communications
5 2 (5.71%) VoIP
5 2 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.86%) DNS
6 1 (2.86%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Power BI
2 3 (8.57%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (8.57%) SAP BW
2 3 (8.57%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (5.71%) GIS
3 2 (5.71%) Looker
4 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.43%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.57%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Billing
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Consultant
1 6 (17.14%) Lead
1 6 (17.14%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.43%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (8.57%) Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (8.57%) IT Manager
3 3 (8.57%) Network Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) SAP BW Consultant
3 3 (8.57%) Scrum Master
3 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) Data Science Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Data Scientist
4 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.71%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Senior Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) .NET
1 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
1 2 (5.71%) RFC 2544
1 2 (5.71%) XML
1 2 (5.71%) XML Schema
2 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Beam
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) AI Agents
2 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.71%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (5.71%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Photography
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (20.00%) Agile
2 7 (20.00%) Analytics
3 6 (17.14%) Project Management
4 5 (14.29%) Change Management
4 5 (14.29%) CRM
4 5 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
5 4 (11.43%) AI
5 4 (11.43%) Revenue Management
5 4 (11.43%) Scrum
6 3 (8.57%) Accounts Payable
6 3 (8.57%) Accounts Receivable
6 3 (8.57%) Backlog Management
6 3 (8.57%) Data Protection
6 3 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (8.57%) ERP
6 3 (8.57%) Kanban
6 3 (8.57%) Master Data Management
6 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) ABAP
1 3 (8.57%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) C#
3 1 (2.86%) Java
3 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) CCA
2 3 (8.57%) CCNA
2 3 (8.57%) CCNP
2 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.71%) PMP
4 1 (2.86%) CBAP
4 1 (2.86%) CSPO
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) NCSC
1 2 (5.71%) PMO
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Cisco
2 5 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (5.71%) CheckPoint
3 2 (5.71%) F5
3 2 (5.71%) Juniper
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) Blue Coat
4 1 (2.86%) BT
4 1 (2.86%) Dell
4 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce