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 11 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 111 83
Rank change year-on-year -8 -28 +3
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 35 15 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.23% 0.90% 1.22%
As % of the General category 2.21% 1.46% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 12
10th Percentile £415 £137 £228
25th Percentile £438 £156 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £320 £500
Median % change year-on-year +48.44% -36.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £534 £525
90th Percentile £751 £573 -
England median daily rate £470 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £13.40 - £17.94
25th Percentile £13.45 - £26.61
Median hourly rate £13.83 - £41.15
75th Percentile £19.92 - £55.61
90th Percentile £25.25 - £64.25
England median hourly rate £17.50 £21.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% -70.00% +27.27%

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 1,586 1,029 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 55.86% 61.43% 53.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 683 430
10th Percentile £324 £235 £298
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £581
90th Percentile £675 £638 £663
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 31 31
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.00 £14.06
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.63 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -1.60% +15.38%
75th Percentile £35.00 £40.02 £40.00
90th Percentile £38.32 £81.25 £42.50
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%

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 11 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in Yorkshire

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 11 October 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 -4 23 £463 -18.14% 21
North Yorkshire -5 4 £751 +436.07% 15
South Yorkshire -22 4 - - 13
East Yorkshire -1 3 - - 4
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 4 (11.43%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) AWS
1 9 (25.71%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) GCP
3 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) VoIP
2 3 (8.57%) Broadband
2 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (5.71%) LTE
3 2 (5.71%) SNMP
3 2 (5.71%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.71%) TETRA
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Sales Manager
1 11 (31.43%) Telecoms Manager
2 5 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 4 (11.43%) Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Technical Business Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (8.57%) Digital Project Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Agile Project Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Compliance Officer
5 2 (5.71%) Customer Service Advisor
5 2 (5.71%) Digital Agile Project Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Digital Transformation
5 2 (5.71%) Digital Transformation Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) OpenVMS Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Systems Integration Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Middleware
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.57%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.71%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.71%) SCADA
4 1 (2.86%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) OpenVMS
2 2 (5.71%) Unix
2 2 (5.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Business Development
2 9 (25.71%) Agile
3 8 (22.86%) AI
3 8 (22.86%) Digital Engineering
3 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
3 8 (22.86%) Sprint Planning
4 7 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (17.14%) DevOps
5 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (14.29%) ITIL
7 4 (11.43%) Backlog Refinement
7 4 (11.43%) Budget Management
7 4 (11.43%) Generative AI
7 4 (11.43%) High Availability
7 4 (11.43%) Intelligent Automation
7 4 (11.43%) Project Governance
7 4 (11.43%) Technology Transformation
7 4 (11.43%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) DCL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) A+ Certification
2 2 (5.71%) CCNA
2 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.71%) ECDL
2 2 (5.71%) MCSE
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
1 2 (5.71%) NDS
1 2 (5.71%) NetIQ eDirectory
1 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.71%) VMware
3 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft