Telecoms Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Telecommunications
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 79 58
Rank change year-on-year -42 -21 +40
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 23 11 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.93% 1.07% 2.65%
As % of the General category 1.72% 1.71% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 18
10th Percentile £459 £445 £163
25th Percentile - £513 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £575 -
90th Percentile £591 - £458
England median daily rate £481 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.75% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.15
Median hourly rate - - £12.30
75th Percentile - - £12.45
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £24.17 £57.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% -57.97% +9.52%

All General Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,339 645 953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.23% 62.56% 57.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 377 548
10th Percentile £304 £238 £200
25th Percentile £400 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £463 £498
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -6.93% -5.24%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 24 82
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 -
25th Percentile £16.55 £16.44 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.53 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +23.10% +26.70% -18.11%
75th Percentile £56.13 £22.14 £15.23
90th Percentile £68.75 £32.53 £25.83
England median hourly rate £30.58 £27.25 £30.50
% change year-on-year +12.22% -10.66% -6.15%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Telecoms job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Telecoms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Yorkshire

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Telecoms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Telecoms

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
West Yorkshire -17 12 £464 -13.72% 22
South Yorkshire -42 8 £481 - 4
North Yorkshire -4 1 £751 +36.45% 5
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) AWS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) VoIP
2 2 (8.70%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (4.35%) DHCP
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) Ethernet
3 1 (4.35%) Firewall
3 1 (4.35%) FTP
3 1 (4.35%) IOS XR
3 1 (4.35%) LAN
3 1 (4.35%) LTE
3 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.35%) SNMP
3 1 (4.35%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (4.35%) SSH
3 1 (4.35%) TACACS
3 1 (4.35%) TETRA
3 1 (4.35%) WAN
3 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
3 1 (4.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Telecoms Manager
2 8 (34.78%) Sales Manager
3 5 (21.74%) Design Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Voice Design Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Voice Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) DBA
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.35%) Chief Technology Officer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared DBA
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Telecoms Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) Middleware
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.35%) SCADA
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Business Development
2 6 (26.09%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (21.74%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (21.74%) Customer-Centricity
3 5 (21.74%) Data Architecture
3 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
3 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
3 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (21.74%) IT Strategy
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
3 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
3 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (21.74%) Strategic Roadmap
3 5 (21.74%) Technical Debt
3 5 (21.74%) Technology Strategy
3 5 (21.74%) Wealth Management
4 3 (13.04%) High Availability
5 1 (4.35%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Bash
1 1 (4.35%) Python
1 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) CCIE
3 1 (4.35%) CCNP
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Ciena
2 1 (4.35%) Genesys
2 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
2 1 (4.35%) Juniper
2 1 (4.35%) Meraki
2 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow