Telecoms Contracts in the North West

Telecommunications
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 108 122
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -47
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 40 52 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.50% 1.69% 1.39%
As % of the General category 2.80% 3.22% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 30 44
10th Percentile - £359 £413
25th Percentile £256 £391 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.38% -13.10% +23.53%
75th Percentile £425 £597 £616
90th Percentile £733 £688 £675
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.71 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £39.51
% change year-on-year +14.29% +32.88% +45.69%

All General Skills
North West

Telecoms is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,430 1,616 2,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.62% 52.64% 49.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 874 1,113 1,404
10th Percentile £300 £309 £230
25th Percentile £400 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 75 118
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.14 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.50 £17.05 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.86 £26.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.31% +5.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £36.95 £36.17 £48.70
90th Percentile £51.91 £53.20 £63.60
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.63% +50.23% -4.10%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the North West

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the North West

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the North West

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the North West

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Manchester +9 33 £345 -23.33% 34
Merseyside +16 5 £258 -23.90% 9
Cheshire 0 1 - - 17
Cumbria -20 1 - - 3
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (7.50%) IaaS
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.50%) PaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) 5G
2 3 (7.50%) 3G
2 3 (7.50%) 4G
3 2 (5.00%) 2G
3 2 (5.00%) Wireless
4 1 (2.50%) H.323
4 1 (2.50%) HTTP
4 1 (2.50%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.50%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (2.50%) SMS
4 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) ERwin
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
2 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
4 8 (20.00%) Electronics
4 8 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 8 (20.00%) Marketing
5 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (10.00%) Retail
7 3 (7.50%) Back Office
7 3 (7.50%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (15.00%) Architect
2 5 (12.50%) Analyst
2 5 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 5 (12.50%) Lead
2 5 (12.50%) Telecoms Analyst
2 5 (12.50%) Telecoms Data Analyst
3 4 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 4 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 4 (10.00%) Telecoms Manager
3 4 (10.00%) Telecoms Programme Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Coordinator
4 3 (7.50%) IT Support
4 3 (7.50%) Project Coordinator
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Radio Planner
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (2.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.00%) Wiki
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.50%) CCTV
4 1 (2.50%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.50%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.50%) IVR
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
1 8 (20.00%) Programme Management
2 5 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (10.00%) Culture Change
3 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (10.00%) Data Architecture
3 4 (10.00%) Data Flow Diagram
3 4 (10.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (10.00%) Data Management
3 4 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (10.00%) Data Strategy
3 4 (10.00%) Domain Models
3 4 (10.00%) Master Data Management
3 4 (10.00%) Physical Data Model
3 4 (10.00%) Programme Delivery
3 4 (10.00%) Project Planning
4 3 (7.50%) Project Management
4 3 (7.50%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
1 1 (2.50%) Java
1 1 (2.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
1 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) MCSE
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) CCNA
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Firmware
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (2.50%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
1 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) SAP
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Sparx
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) Adobe
4 1 (2.50%) Avaya
4 1 (2.50%) BMC
4 1 (2.50%) Dell
4 1 (2.50%) Isilon
4 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) Verint
4 1 (2.50%) VMware