PSTN Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Public Switched Telecom Network (PSTN)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring PSTN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PSTN 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% - 0.084%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.06% - 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £308 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 - £200
75th Percentile £323 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £315 £220 £200
% change year-on-year +43.18% +10.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

PSTN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 94 77 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.35% 13.65% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 45 99
10th Percentile £213 £160 £275
25th Percentile £299 £243 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £415 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -2.35% -0.87%
75th Percentile £530 £538 £575
90th Percentile £580 £738 £670
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £379 £405
% change year-on-year +18.73% -6.42% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £17.94 £12.75
25th Percentile £47.50 £26.40 £12.86
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.00 £15.28
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% +168.37% -62.96%
75th Percentile £52.50 £41.50 £17.85
90th Percentile - - £22.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £27.25 £17.35
% change year-on-year -43.12% +57.08% +63.19%

PSTN
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

PSTN job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

PSTN
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PSTN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PSTN

PSTN
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PSTN within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
Leeds - 1 £315 - 1
PSTN
Yorkshire

PSTN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft