SS7 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Signaling System No. 7 (SS7)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SS7 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SS7 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 303 344 -
Rank change year-on-year +41 - -
Contract jobs citing SS7 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.007% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.096% 0.062% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 -
UK median daily rate - £500 £588
% change year-on-year - -14.89% +51.61%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

SS7 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

SS7
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SS7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SS7 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SS7
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SS7.

SS7 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SS7
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) GGSN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Huawei
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia