Telecoms Contracts in the South East

Telecommunications
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Telecoms over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 24 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 340 430 664
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 6.23% 7.68% 8.67%
As % of the General category 12.42% 13.07% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 262 337
10th Percentile £200 £205 £175
25th Percentile £219 £280 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% -
75th Percentile £513 £500 £513
90th Percentile £550 £588 £600
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 2
10th Percentile £31.00 £19.20 £28.58
25th Percentile £45.00 £23.25 £33.19
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year - +25.75% +6.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.81 £50.69
90th Percentile - £69.13 £55.53
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £39.51
% change year-on-year +14.29% +32.88% +45.69%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,738 3,290 4,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.19% 58.75% 55.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,247 2,824
10th Percentile £205 £240 £213
25th Percentile £355 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +1.01% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £663
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 159 209
10th Percentile £12.88 £17.20 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.44 £14.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -24.70%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £32.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.20 £48.75
England median hourly rate £30.12 £32.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +48.84% -2.27%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in the South East

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Thames Valley 0 274 £425 - 65
Berkshire -4 256 £425 - 53
Hampshire -17 17 £449 +13.67% 34
Kent -2 14 £205 - 7
Buckinghamshire +31 13 £425 +107.32% 6
Surrey +2 8 £625 +119.30% 14
West Sussex -15 8 £515 +8.42% 6
Oxfordshire +13 6 - - 6
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (2.94%) SAS
2 6 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.18%) Confluence
4 2 (0.59%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.29%) MTS
5 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 24 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (7.06%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.88%) SPSS
4 2 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.59%) Maya
4 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.59%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) SAP BRIM
1 5 (1.47%) SAP Hybris
1 5 (1.47%) SAP PSCD
1 5 (1.47%) SmartPlant
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.29%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 13 (3.82%) Power Platform
2 12 (3.53%) Azure
3 8 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.06%) Snowflake
5 5 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (1.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 4 (1.18%) Azure Functions
6 4 (1.18%) Serverless
7 3 (0.88%) AWS
8 2 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.59%) ChatGPT
8 2 (0.59%) GCP
8 2 (0.59%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.59%) SaaS
9 1 (0.29%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.29%) IaaS
9 1 (0.29%) PaaS
9 1 (0.29%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.65%) 5G
2 25 (7.35%) Radio Access Network
3 15 (4.41%) Firewall
4 13 (3.82%) 4G
4 13 (3.82%) LTE
5 12 (3.53%) 3G
5 12 (3.53%) Network Security
6 10 (2.94%) MPLS
6 10 (2.94%) Wireless
7 9 (2.65%) BGP
7 9 (2.65%) DNS
7 9 (2.65%) VoLTE
8 8 (2.35%) WAN
9 7 (2.06%) Diameter Protocol
9 7 (2.06%) SGSN
10 6 (1.76%) GGSN
10 6 (1.76%) Internet
10 6 (1.76%) RANAP
10 6 (1.76%) VPN
10 6 (1.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.12%) Tableau
2 13 (3.82%) Power BI
3 8 (2.35%) Electronic Patient Records
4 7 (2.06%) Crystal Reports
4 7 (2.06%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.18%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.18%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.88%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.59%) Big Data
7 2 (0.59%) MySQL
7 2 (0.59%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.29%) Power Query
8 1 (0.29%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.29%) JIRA
2 4 (1.18%) Git
2 4 (1.18%) Subversion
3 1 (0.29%) GitLab
3 1 (0.29%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.29%) Selenium
3 1 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 92 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 81 (23.82%) Finance
3 57 (16.76%) Marketing
4 46 (13.53%) Public Sector
5 41 (12.06%) Electronics
5 41 (12.06%) Manufacturing
6 28 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (7.06%) Legal
8 23 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.65%) Billing
10 9 (2.65%) Law
11 7 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.06%) Multimedia
12 6 (1.76%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.88%) French Language
15 2 (0.59%) German Language
15 2 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
16 1 (0.29%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 41 (12.06%) Analyst
2 28 (8.24%) Telecoms Manager
3 22 (6.47%) Architect
3 22 (6.47%) Consultant
4 21 (6.18%) Senior
5 20 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 19 (5.59%) Support Engineer
7 18 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
8 17 (5.00%) Network Engineer
9 16 (4.71%) Desktop Support
9 16 (4.71%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 15 (4.41%) Lead
11 12 (3.53%) Developer
12 11 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (2.94%) Supplier Manager
13 10 (2.94%) Test Engineer
14 9 (2.65%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.65%) Designer
15 8 (2.35%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.06%) XML
2 5 (1.47%) HTML
2 5 (1.47%) REST
3 4 (1.18%) Django
3 4 (1.18%) JSON
3 4 (1.18%) React
4 3 (0.88%) D3.js
4 3 (0.88%) Node.js
4 3 (0.88%) React Native
4 3 (0.88%) YANG
5 2 (0.59%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.59%) CSS
5 2 (0.59%) Flash
5 2 (0.59%) RESTful
5 2 (0.59%) SOAP
6 1 (0.29%) MDX
6 1 (0.29%) OpenLayers
6 1 (0.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.29%) Vue
6 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.41%) NHS
2 10 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (2.65%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (2.35%) LIMS
4 8 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.76%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (1.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 6 (1.76%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.47%) Smart Meter
7 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.18%) Device Driver
7 4 (1.18%) Social Media
8 3 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.53%) Windows
2 19 (5.59%) Linux
3 14 (4.12%) Windows 10
4 13 (3.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (15.29%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (12.65%) Programme Management
3 41 (12.06%) Digital Marketing
4 39 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (9.71%) Project Management
6 32 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (7.65%) Agile
7 26 (7.65%) Customer Experience
8 25 (7.35%) Project Delivery
9 21 (6.18%) Analytics
9 21 (6.18%) Collaborative Working
9 21 (6.18%) Risk Management
10 20 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
10 20 (5.88%) Migration
10 20 (5.88%) Roadmaps
10 20 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (5.59%) Information Security
12 18 (5.29%) User Stories
13 17 (5.00%) Contract Management
13 17 (5.00%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.35%) SQL
2 18 (5.29%) Python
3 11 (3.24%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.06%) Java
5 5 (1.47%) C
5 5 (1.47%) C++
5 5 (1.47%) Shell Script
6 4 (1.18%) Assembly Language
6 4 (1.18%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.88%) R
8 2 (0.59%) Bash
8 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.29%) C#
9 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.29%) Scala
9 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 56 (16.47%) Degree
2 27 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.82%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.76%) CIPD
8 5 (1.47%) CCNP
8 5 (1.47%) CISM
8 5 (1.47%) CISSP
9 4 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.18%) ICAEW
9 4 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.18%) PhD
10 3 (0.88%) CISA
10 3 (0.88%) CISMP
10 3 (0.88%) CRISC
10 3 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.06%) QA
2 12 (3.53%) NIST
3 9 (2.65%) GDPR
4 8 (2.35%) HL7
4 8 (2.35%) PMO
5 6 (1.76%) NIST 800
6 5 (1.47%) COBIT
6 5 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.18%) GAAP
7 4 (1.18%) IFRS
7 4 (1.18%) JTAG
7 4 (1.18%) SLA
8 3 (0.88%) GRC
9 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.59%) ITGC
9 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.29%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (1.18%) Firmware
2 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) Docker
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.88%) Ansible
2 2 (0.59%) Nessus
3 1 (0.29%) AirWatch
3 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 45 (13.24%) SAP
2 42 (12.35%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.00%) BT
3 17 (5.00%) Cisco
4 13 (3.82%) Juniper
5 11 (3.24%) Oracle
6 8 (2.35%) IFS
6 8 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.76%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.76%) Empirix
7 6 (1.76%) NetScout
8 5 (1.47%) Nokia
8 5 (1.47%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.47%) Splunk
9 4 (1.18%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.18%) Ericsson
9 4 (1.18%) Informatica
9 4 (1.18%) VMware
10 2 (0.59%) Google
10 2 (0.59%) Xilinx