Telecoms Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Telecommunications
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 119 63 75
Rank change year-on-year -56 +12 +13
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 214 474 778
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.16% 3.09% 3.01%
As % of the General category 3.47% 5.25% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 241 512
10th Percentile £325 £256 £300
25th Percentile £400 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 55 32
10th Percentile - £13.55 £20.00
25th Percentile - £29.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.46% - +150.00%
75th Percentile £16.75 £72.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £28.70 £74.00 £73.38
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.18% +4.76% +61.54%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Telecoms falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,176 9,033 15,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.35% 58.87% 58.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 5,908 10,633
10th Percentile £325 £331 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 477 347
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.03 £19.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.61 £29.31
Median hourly rate £32.05 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -23.76% +61.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.93 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Telecoms
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Telecoms trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Telecoms daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Telecoms daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Telecoms hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Telecoms hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.61%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.40%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.87%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) InVision
3 1 (0.47%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) Primavera
3 1 (0.47%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.15%) Azure
2 13 (6.07%) AWS
3 10 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.21%) GCP
5 8 (3.74%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.80%) SaaS
7 5 (2.34%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.87%) IaaS
9 3 (1.40%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.40%) Yammer
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.93%) Figma
10 2 (0.93%) GitHub
10 2 (0.93%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.93%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.81%) 5G
2 20 (9.35%) Firewall
2 20 (9.35%) Radio Access Network
3 13 (6.07%) MPLS
3 13 (6.07%) Network Security
4 12 (5.61%) 4G
5 11 (5.14%) BGP
6 9 (4.21%) OSPF
7 8 (3.74%) 2G
7 8 (3.74%) VPN
8 6 (2.80%) 3G
8 6 (2.80%) Wireless
9 5 (2.34%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (2.34%) Ethernet
9 5 (2.34%) Internet
9 5 (2.34%) WAN
10 4 (1.87%) DNS
10 4 (1.87%) HTTP
10 4 (1.87%) LTE
10 4 (1.87%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.80%) Power BI
2 5 (2.34%) Power Query
3 4 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.40%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (2.80%) JIRA
2 2 (0.93%) Git
2 2 (0.93%) NUnit
2 2 (0.93%) Postman
2 2 (0.93%) Selenium
3 1 (0.47%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.47%) GCC
3 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.47%) Maven
3 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.47%) Vite
General
1 55 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.50%) Finance
3 40 (18.69%) Marketing
3 40 (18.69%) Public Sector
4 37 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (15.89%) Electronics
5 34 (15.89%) Manufacturing
6 18 (8.41%) Billing
7 15 (7.01%) Legal
8 13 (6.07%) Retail
9 11 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.40%) Back Office
12 3 (1.40%) Banking
12 3 (1.40%) Digital Economy
13 2 (0.93%) Italian Language
13 2 (0.93%) Law
14 1 (0.47%) Dutch Language
14 1 (0.47%) French Language
Job Titles
1 32 (14.95%) Architect
2 21 (9.81%) Senior
3 19 (8.88%) Telecoms Manager
4 18 (8.41%) Developer
5 16 (7.48%) Network Engineer
6 14 (6.54%) Analyst
7 13 (6.07%) Designer
8 12 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (5.14%) Administrator
9 11 (5.14%) Delivery Manager
10 10 (4.67%) Lead
11 9 (4.21%) IT Manager
11 9 (4.21%) Operations Manager
11 9 (4.21%) Project Manager
11 9 (4.21%) Solutions Designer
12 8 (3.74%) IT Operations Manager
12 8 (3.74%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.27%) Network Security Engineer
13 7 (3.27%) Performance Manager
13 7 (3.27%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.14%) REST
1 11 (5.14%) Web Services
2 7 (3.27%) CSS
2 7 (3.27%) HTML
3 5 (2.34%) .NET
3 5 (2.34%) RESTful
3 5 (2.34%) SOAP
4 4 (1.87%) Ajax
4 4 (1.87%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.87%) JSON
4 4 (1.87%) XML
5 3 (1.40%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.40%) Node.js
5 3 (1.40%) React
6 2 (0.93%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.93%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.93%) Playwright
6 2 (0.93%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.93%) Swagger
6 2 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.61%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (3.27%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.34%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.34%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.87%) CMDB
4 4 (1.87%) Frameworx
4 4 (1.87%) IoT
4 4 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.87%) TM Forum
4 4 (1.87%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.40%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.40%) Social Media
6 2 (0.93%) NHS
6 2 (0.93%) PKI
7 1 (0.47%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.47%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.47%) PACS
7 1 (0.47%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.01%) Windows
2 7 (3.27%) Linux
2 7 (3.27%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.87%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (19.16%) Business Intelligence
3 36 (16.82%) Agile
4 35 (16.36%) Programme Management
5 34 (15.89%) Digital Marketing
6 27 (12.62%) ITIL
7 25 (11.68%) Change Management
8 21 (9.81%) DevOps
9 20 (9.35%) Project Management
10 19 (8.88%) Service Delivery
11 16 (7.48%) Migration
12 14 (6.54%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (6.54%) Project Delivery
12 14 (6.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (6.07%) Network Design
13 13 (6.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (5.61%) Customer Experience
14 12 (5.61%) Data Analysis
14 12 (5.61%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (9.81%) Python
2 12 (5.61%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.21%) SQL
4 8 (3.74%) Java
5 5 (2.34%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.87%) C#
7 3 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.40%) VBA
8 2 (0.93%) Bash
8 2 (0.93%) Bicep
8 2 (0.93%) C++
8 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.93%) Go
8 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.47%) Assembly Language
9 1 (0.47%) C
9 1 (0.47%) JCL
9 1 (0.47%) Natural
9 1 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 35 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.28%) Degree
4 10 (4.67%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.80%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.34%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.34%) PMP
8 3 (1.40%) CCNP
8 3 (1.40%) CISSP
8 3 (1.40%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.93%) CCIE
9 2 (0.93%) CISM
9 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.14%) QA
2 6 (2.80%) SLA
3 4 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.40%) GDPR
5 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.47%) P3O
6 1 (0.47%) PMO
6 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.74%) Docker
3 7 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.87%) vSphere
5 1 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (5.14%) Ansible
2 10 (4.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.80%) Terraform
5 3 (1.40%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.93%) NSN NetAct
7 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.47%) OfficeScan
7 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.47%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 35 (16.36%) SAP
2 29 (13.55%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.41%) Cisco
4 13 (6.07%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.14%) Splunk
6 10 (4.67%) VMware
7 9 (4.21%) Ericsson
7 9 (4.21%) Google
8 7 (3.27%) BT
8 7 (3.27%) Nokia
8 7 (3.27%) Remedy
8 7 (3.27%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.80%) BMC
9 6 (2.80%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.34%) Oracle
11 4 (1.87%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.87%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.87%) Huawei
12 3 (1.40%) F5
12 3 (1.40%) Virgin Media