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 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 99 70
Rank change year-on-year -22 -29 +18
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 32 11 35
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.12% 0.73% 2.31%
As % of the General category 2.10% 1.16% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 14
10th Percentile £415 - £319
25th Percentile £438 £140 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £275 £458
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% -39.89% -8.50%
75th Percentile £511 £525 £519
90th Percentile £625 £533 £525
England median daily rate £475 £490 £485
% change year-on-year -3.06% +1.03% -0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile £16.99 - -
25th Percentile £18.47 - £12.15
Median hourly rate £21.48 - £12.30
75th Percentile £23.94 - £12.45
90th Percentile £25.08 - £14.35
England median hourly rate £21.00 £15.50 £64.25
% change year-on-year +35.48% -75.88% +2.80%

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 1,525 949 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.19% 63.10% 53.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 957 586 452
10th Percentile £308 £240 £313
25th Percentile £406 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £585
90th Percentile £671 £626 £665
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 41 57
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.48 £13.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +51.38% -23.03%
75th Percentile £36.61 £25.11 £25.83
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £41.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -6 26 £469 -10.71% 25
South Yorkshire -24 3 - - 8
North Yorkshire -8 1 £751 +436.07% 10
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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) AWS
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) VoIP
2 2 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (3.13%) DHCP
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) LAN
3 1 (3.13%) LTE
3 1 (3.13%) SNMP
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) TETRA
3 1 (3.13%) WAN
3 1 (3.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Sales Manager
1 11 (34.38%) Telecoms Manager
2 5 (15.63%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Business Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Project Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Digital Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Agile Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Business Integration Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) DBA
5 2 (6.25%) Digital Agile Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Integration Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) OpenVMS Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Systems Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Middleware
2 1 (3.13%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.13%) SCADA
4 1 (3.13%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) OpenVMS
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
2 2 (6.25%) VMS
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Business Development
2 9 (28.13%) Agile
3 8 (25.00%) AI
3 8 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
3 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 8 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 6 (18.75%) DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) High Availability
4 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
6 4 (12.50%) Budget Management
6 4 (12.50%) Commercial Awareness
6 4 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (12.50%) Generative AI
6 4 (12.50%) Intelligent Automation
6 4 (12.50%) Sprint Review
6 4 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
6 4 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) DCL
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
1 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) A+ Certification
2 1 (3.13%) CCIE
2 1 (3.13%) CCNA
2 1 (3.13%) CCNP
2 1 (3.13%) ECDL
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.13%) MCSE
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.13%) NDS
1 1 (3.13%) NetIQ eDirectory
1 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle
1 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco
2 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
2 1 (3.13%) Juniper
2 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.13%) VMware