Telecoms Contracts with Work from Home Options

Telecommunications
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 78 84
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 442 733 1,309
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.96% 2.91% 2.96%
As % of the General category 5.04% 4.98% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 484 904
10th Percentile £256 £302 £335
25th Percentile £386 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £602
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 30 10
10th Percentile £13.63 £19.40 £20.31
25th Percentile £35.00 £47.50 £21.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +150.00% -16.18%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £29.88
90th Percentile £74.00 £90.75 £51.64
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +61.54% +19.84%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,778 14,730 24,115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.77% 58.48% 54.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,759 10,368 17,530
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 333 345
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.95 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.77
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +52.58% +39.45%
75th Percentile £53.38 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.20 £65.42
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.82 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.82% +53.73% -2.22%

Telecoms
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Telecoms trend for jobs with a WFH option

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Telecoms over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

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 8 (1.81%) SAS
1 8 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.36%) Confluence
2 6 (1.36%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.45%) Apache
3 2 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.23%) Drupal
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) nginx
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 21 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.04%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.23%) Maya
6 1 (0.23%) Revit
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.13%) SmartPlant
2 3 (0.68%) SAP BRIM
2 3 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
2 3 (0.68%) SAP PSCD
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.45%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 41 (9.28%) Azure
2 37 (8.37%) AWS
3 21 (4.75%) GCP
4 15 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (1.81%) PaaS
8 5 (1.13%) IaaS
8 5 (1.13%) Twilio
9 4 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (0.90%) OCI
9 4 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.68%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 2 (0.45%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (0.45%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.45%) ClickUp
11 2 (0.45%) SaaS
11 2 (0.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.52%) WAN
2 18 (4.07%) 4G
3 15 (3.39%) VoIP
4 14 (3.17%) 5G
4 14 (3.17%) Firewall
4 14 (3.17%) MPLS
4 14 (3.17%) SD-WAN
5 13 (2.94%) VPN
5 13 (2.94%) Wireless
6 11 (2.49%) 3G
6 11 (2.49%) LAN
6 11 (2.49%) Radio Access Network
7 10 (2.26%) Internet
8 9 (2.04%) Ethernet
8 9 (2.04%) Network Security
9 8 (1.81%) BGP
9 8 (1.81%) LTE
9 8 (1.81%) SDH
10 6 (1.36%) DNS
10 6 (1.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.94%) Power BI
2 12 (2.71%) Metadata
3 10 (2.26%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.04%) Tableau
5 6 (1.36%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (1.36%) Ingres
5 6 (1.36%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (1.36%) QlikView
6 5 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.68%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.45%) Big Data
8 2 (0.45%) GIS
8 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.23%) Looker
9 1 (0.23%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 14 (3.17%) JIRA
2 13 (2.94%) Git
3 11 (2.49%) ERwin
4 6 (1.36%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.13%) Postman
5 5 (1.13%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.90%) Subversion
7 3 (0.68%) NUnit
7 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.23%) Appium
8 1 (0.23%) GitLab
8 1 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 162 (36.65%) Finance
2 104 (23.53%) Marketing
3 101 (22.85%) Public Sector
3 101 (22.85%) Social Skills
4 97 (21.95%) Electronics
5 96 (21.72%) Manufacturing
6 37 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.30%) Banking
8 19 (4.30%) Legal
9 16 (3.62%) Retail
10 10 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.81%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.81%) Billing
12 6 (1.36%) Police
13 4 (0.90%) Aeronautics
13 4 (0.90%) French Language
13 4 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.68%) German Language
15 2 (0.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 100 (22.62%) Architect
2 45 (10.18%) Lead
3 42 (9.50%) Analyst
4 34 (7.69%) Developer
5 31 (7.01%) Project Manager
6 30 (6.79%) Network Architect
7 28 (6.33%) Lead Architect
7 28 (6.33%) Senior
8 27 (6.11%) Telecoms Manager
9 26 (5.88%) Consultant
10 25 (5.66%) Systems Architect
11 23 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
13 16 (3.62%) IT Architect
13 16 (3.62%) Support Engineer
14 14 (3.17%) Network Engineer
15 13 (2.94%) Data Architect
16 12 (2.71%) Software Engineer
16 12 (2.71%) Technical Support
17 11 (2.49%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.17%) RESTful
2 12 (2.71%) AngularJS
3 11 (2.49%) Web Services
4 9 (2.04%) .NET
5 8 (1.81%) CSS
5 8 (1.81%) JSON
6 7 (1.58%) HTML
6 7 (1.58%) Kafka
6 7 (1.58%) Middleware
6 7 (1.58%) XML
7 6 (1.36%) REST
8 4 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.90%) YANG
9 3 (0.68%) Django
9 3 (0.68%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.68%) Playwright
9 3 (0.68%) SOAP
10 2 (0.45%) Hugging Face
10 2 (0.45%) LangChain
10 2 (0.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (2.49%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.49%) Wiki
4 10 (2.26%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.04%) IVR
6 8 (1.81%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.36%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.13%) NHS
9 4 (0.90%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.90%) Device Driver
10 3 (0.68%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.68%) Fibre Optics
10 3 (0.68%) IoT
10 3 (0.68%) Verilog
10 3 (0.68%) VHDL
11 2 (0.45%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.33%) Linux
2 21 (4.75%) Windows
3 6 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.90%) Unix
4 4 (0.90%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.68%) CentOS
6 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Debian
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) VMS
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (25.57%) Business Intelligence
2 102 (23.08%) Programme Management
3 94 (21.27%) Digital Marketing
4 52 (11.76%) Agile
5 50 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (9.73%) Project Management
8 39 (8.82%) ITIL
8 39 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (7.24%) DevOps
10 31 (7.01%) Change Management
11 29 (6.56%) Network Management
12 28 (6.33%) Roadmaps
13 23 (5.20%) Project Delivery
13 23 (5.20%) Strategic Thinking
13 23 (5.20%) Systems Engineering
14 22 (4.98%) Analytics
15 21 (4.75%) Computer Science
16 19 (4.30%) Customer Experience
16 19 (4.30%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 26 (5.88%) Python
1 26 (5.88%) SQL
2 16 (3.62%) JavaScript
3 13 (2.94%) Java
4 11 (2.49%) C
4 11 (2.49%) C++
5 8 (1.81%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.36%) C#
6 6 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.36%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.13%) Bash
7 5 (1.13%) MATLAB
7 5 (1.13%) PHP
8 4 (0.90%) Assembly Language
8 4 (0.90%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.68%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.23%) Perl
10 1 (0.23%) Solidity
10 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (21.04%) Security Cleared
2 78 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 68 (15.38%) Degree
4 25 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.94%) CCNP
6 13 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.58%) BC Cleared
8 7 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.36%) HND
9 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.13%) CIPD
10 5 (1.13%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.90%) ICAEW
11 4 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.52%) QA
2 18 (4.07%) GDPR
2 18 (4.07%) SLA
3 14 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.81%) PMO
5 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.90%) GAAP
5 4 (0.90%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.90%) IFRS
5 4 (0.90%) JTAG
5 4 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.90%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.23%) COBIT
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.23%) NCSC
6 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (4.30%) Docker
2 12 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.36%) Firmware
4 4 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.04%) Terraform
3 5 (1.13%) Ansible
4 3 (0.68%) Nagios
5 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.45%) Grafana
5 2 (0.45%) OpenView
5 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.45%) Puppet
5 2 (0.45%) SCCM
6 1 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.23%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.23%) Icinga
6 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 102 (23.08%) SAP
2 41 (9.28%) Microsoft
3 38 (8.60%) Cisco
4 30 (6.79%) BT
5 12 (2.71%) Sparx
6 11 (2.49%) Oracle
7 10 (2.26%) Genesys
7 10 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.04%) Nokia
9 8 (1.81%) Google
9 8 (1.81%) Juniper
10 7 (1.58%) Avaya
10 7 (1.58%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.36%) IFS
11 6 (1.36%) VMware
12 5 (1.13%) IBM
12 5 (1.13%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.90%) Ciena
13 4 (0.90%) Computacenter
13 4 (0.90%) Splunk