Telecoms Contracts 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 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 72 49 96
Rank change year-on-year -23 +47 -41
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 25 63 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.86% 3.24% 1.80%
As % of the General category 2.97% 5.72% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 35 23
10th Percentile £424 £325 £203
25th Percentile £450 £344 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% - -12.20%
75th Percentile £531 £588 £550
90th Percentile - £775 £638
England median daily rate £500 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £13.75 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% -
75th Percentile - £14.00 £17.34
90th Percentile - - £19.65
England median hourly rate £24.17 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -56.06% +4.76% +40.00%

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 841 1,101 1,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 62.53% 56.55% 58.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 758 972
10th Percentile £185 £263 £237
25th Percentile £360 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 111 42
10th Percentile - £11.06 £11.10
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.90 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%
75th Percentile £28.18 £39.34 £26.82
90th Percentile £33.91 £56.25 £56.63
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the West Midlands

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the West Midlands

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 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
Birmingham -4 22 £513 +20.80% 37
Solihull +16 1 - - 5
Warwickshire -5 1 - - 13
Worcestershire - 1 - - 5
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) BGP
1 5 (20.00%) OSPF
1 5 (20.00%) VPN
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) IPsec
2 4 (16.00%) Network Security
2 4 (16.00%) SSL
2 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (16.00%) VLAN
3 1 (4.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (4.00%) Internet
3 1 (4.00%) IPv4
3 1 (4.00%) MPLS
3 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Back Office
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Economy
4 1 (4.00%) Electronics
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Administrator
2 4 (16.00%) Check Point Expert
3 3 (12.00%) Telecoms Manager
4 2 (8.00%) QA Manager
5 1 (4.00%) 1st Line Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (4.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Genesys Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Genesys Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Junior
5 1 (4.00%) Junior IT Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Product Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (28.00%) SIEM
2 4 (16.00%) High Availability
3 3 (12.00%) Agile
3 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (12.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (8.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (8.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (8.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (8.00%) Project Management
4 2 (8.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (8.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (8.00%) Scalability Testing
4 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (8.00%) Statistics
4 2 (8.00%) Test Management
4 2 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (8.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) CCSE
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) CCNP
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (16.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco
2 2 (8.00%) Genesys
3 1 (4.00%) BMC
3 1 (4.00%) Citrix
3 1 (4.00%) Huawei
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Nexthink
3 1 (4.00%) Remedy
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow