Telecoms Contracts in the UK excluding London

Telecommunications
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 45 59 51
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 814 850 1,270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.01% 3.69% 4.17%
As % of the General category 7.37% 6.54% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 537 759
10th Percentile £180 £205 £185
25th Percentile £300 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 32 13
10th Percentile £12.15 £15.80 £18.80
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.31 £56.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £100.13 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +40.00% +50.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,038 13,006 16,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.38% 56.52% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,309 8,866 11,696
10th Percentile £208 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +8.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,650 739 1,034
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.90 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +52.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.16 £36.12
90th Percentile £67.04 £70.00 £55.81
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Telecoms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in the UK excluding London

Telecoms
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the UK excluding London 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
South East +1 340 £425 +3.03% 179
South West +16 214 £595 +3.48% 72
North of England +41 89 £370 -21.07% 114
Midlands +31 67 £500 +33.33% 85
East of England +7 58 £375 -20.00% 65
West Midlands +34 50 £535 +14.50% 50
Yorkshire +34 43 £450 -10.00% 31
North West +7 39 £345 -23.33% 66
Scotland +35 27 £475 +4.11% 23
Wales +31 22 £365 +72.78% 22
East Midlands +9 14 £388 +63.16% 35
Northern Ireland +3 8 £600 +97.69% 7
North East +16 7 £493 +38.73% 18
Channel Islands - 3 £575 -
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.23%) SAS
3 9 (1.11%) Confluence
4 6 (0.74%) Apache
5 5 (0.61%) IIS
5 5 (0.61%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.37%) CMS
8 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Drupal
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.12%) MTS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 65 (7.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (6.88%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.23%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.37%) SPSS
6 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.25%) Maya
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 8 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.61%) SAP BRIM
2 5 (0.61%) SAP Hybris
2 5 (0.61%) SAP PSCD
2 5 (0.61%) SmartPlant
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.12%) SAP FI-CA
Cloud Services
1 30 (3.69%) Azure
2 21 (2.58%) Power Platform
3 19 (2.33%) AWS
3 19 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (2.09%) SaaS
5 16 (1.97%) PaaS
6 8 (0.98%) Snowflake
7 5 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (0.61%) IaaS
7 5 (0.61%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 5 (0.61%) Serverless
8 4 (0.49%) Azure Functions
8 4 (0.49%) GCP
9 3 (0.37%) Google Sheets
9 3 (0.37%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.25%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.12%) OCI
11 1 (0.12%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.12%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.76%) 5G
2 45 (5.53%) Radio Access Network
2 45 (5.53%) WAN
3 42 (5.16%) 4G
4 41 (5.04%) PBX
4 41 (5.04%) VoIP
5 40 (4.91%) Wireless
6 34 (4.18%) Firewall
7 31 (3.81%) LTE
8 28 (3.44%) Wireshark
9 26 (3.19%) LAN
10 24 (2.95%) MPLS
10 24 (2.95%) VPN
11 23 (2.83%) 3G
12 22 (2.70%) DNS
13 21 (2.58%) Internet
14 16 (1.97%) SDH
15 13 (1.60%) SD-WAN
16 12 (1.47%) Network Security
16 12 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.72%) Power BI
1 14 (1.72%) Tableau
2 9 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
3 8 (0.98%) SQL Server
4 7 (0.86%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.74%) Ingres
6 5 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.49%) GIS
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (0.49%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.37%) Metadata
8 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.25%) Big Data
9 2 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.25%) MySQL
9 2 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (3.56%) JIRA
2 21 (2.58%) Rational DOORS
3 10 (1.23%) Git
4 8 (0.98%) Subversion
5 6 (0.74%) Gradle
6 4 (0.49%) gcov
6 4 (0.49%) GDB
7 3 (0.37%) ERwin
7 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.37%) Maven
8 2 (0.25%) Capybara
8 2 (0.25%) GitLab
9 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.12%) Gerrit
9 1 (0.12%) GoCD
9 1 (0.12%) Postman
9 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 219 (26.90%) Finance
2 215 (26.41%) Social Skills
3 159 (19.53%) Public Sector
4 155 (19.04%) Marketing
5 142 (17.44%) Manufacturing
6 140 (17.20%) Electronics
7 55 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (3.81%) Legal
9 29 (3.56%) Mandarin Language
10 28 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (2.58%) Retail
13 19 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.97%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.47%) Multimedia
16 11 (1.35%) Law
17 9 (1.11%) Billing
17 9 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.98%) Military
19 7 (0.86%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 136 (16.71%) Architect
2 75 (9.21%) Analyst
3 71 (8.72%) Lead
4 69 (8.48%) Solutions Architect
5 46 (5.65%) Project Manager
6 44 (5.41%) Support Engineer
7 40 (4.91%) Network Architect
7 40 (4.91%) Senior
8 37 (4.55%) Telecoms Manager
9 35 (4.30%) Network Engineer
10 33 (4.05%) Lead Architect
11 32 (3.93%) Consultant
12 28 (3.44%) Systems Architect
13 26 (3.19%) Developer
14 20 (2.46%) Desktop Engineer
15 19 (2.33%) Coordinator
15 19 (2.33%) Desktop Support
15 19 (2.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 16 (1.97%) Data Analyst
17 15 (1.84%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.97%) XML
2 11 (1.35%) Web Services
3 8 (0.98%) HTML
3 8 (0.98%) RESTful
4 7 (0.86%) CSS
4 7 (0.86%) React
4 7 (0.86%) REST
5 5 (0.61%) AngularJS
5 5 (0.61%) JSON
6 4 (0.49%) Django
7 3 (0.37%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.37%) D3.js
7 3 (0.37%) Node.js
7 3 (0.37%) React Native
7 3 (0.37%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.37%) YANG
8 2 (0.25%) HTML5
8 2 (0.25%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.25%) Playwright
8 2 (0.25%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 49 (6.02%) Data Centre
2 37 (4.55%) NHS
3 35 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (4.18%) Data Protection Act
4 34 (4.18%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.83%) Driving Licence
6 20 (2.46%) Video Conferencing
7 18 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (1.35%) Blackberry
9 11 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
10 10 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 9 (1.11%) Fibre Optics
12 8 (0.98%) LIMS
13 7 (0.86%) Operational Technology
13 7 (0.86%) SCADA
14 6 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.74%) IVR
15 5 (0.61%) Smart Meter
15 5 (0.61%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.11%) Windows
2 40 (4.91%) Linux
3 21 (2.58%) Windows 10
4 14 (1.72%) Unix
5 11 (1.35%) Windows 7
6 7 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.37%) Windows 8
8 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.25%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.12%) Android
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (18.92%) Programme Management
2 151 (18.55%) Business Intelligence
3 139 (17.08%) Digital Marketing
4 90 (11.06%) ITIL
5 80 (9.83%) Project Management
6 78 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (8.97%) Agile
8 68 (8.35%) Project Delivery
9 62 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 56 (6.88%) Roadmaps
12 45 (5.53%) Customer Service
13 41 (5.04%) Change Management
14 40 (4.91%) Decision-Making
15 39 (4.79%) Customer Experience
16 38 (4.67%) Computer Science
17 36 (4.42%) Data Protection
17 36 (4.42%) Root Cause Analysis
18 34 (4.18%) Mentoring
18 34 (4.18%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (4.42%) Python
2 30 (3.69%) SQL
3 19 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 17 (2.09%) C
4 17 (2.09%) C++
5 13 (1.60%) Java
6 6 (0.74%) C#
7 5 (0.61%) Bash
7 5 (0.61%) MATLAB
7 5 (0.61%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.49%) Assembly Language
8 4 (0.49%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.37%) R
10 2 (0.25%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.25%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.25%) Ruby
10 2 (0.25%) Swift
10 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.12%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 198 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 143 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 138 (16.95%) Degree
4 78 (9.58%) DV Cleared
5 38 (4.67%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (2.70%) CCNP
7 16 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.72%) CCNA
9 14 (1.72%) HND
10 12 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (1.35%) CISSP
12 9 (1.11%) CCIE
12 9 (1.11%) CCIE Data Center
12 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.74%) CIPD
13 6 (0.74%) PhD
14 5 (0.61%) BC Cleared
14 5 (0.61%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.16%) SLA
2 31 (3.81%) QA
3 20 (2.46%) NIST
4 14 (1.72%) GDPR
4 14 (1.72%) PMO
5 11 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.23%) NIST 800
7 8 (0.98%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.98%) HL7
8 5 (0.61%) COBIT
8 5 (0.61%) JSP 440
8 5 (0.61%) RMADS
9 4 (0.49%) GAAP
9 4 (0.49%) IFRS
9 4 (0.49%) JTAG
10 3 (0.37%) GRC
11 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (1.60%) Active Directory
1 13 (1.60%) Docker
2 10 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.61%) Firmware
4 4 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (1.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.86%) OpenView
3 6 (0.74%) Ansible
3 6 (0.74%) SCCM
4 4 (0.49%) Terraform
5 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.25%) Nagios
5 2 (0.25%) Nessus
5 2 (0.25%) Puppet
5 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.12%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.12%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.12%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.12%) SCOM
6 1 (0.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 146 (17.94%) SAP
2 104 (12.78%) Microsoft
3 70 (8.60%) Cisco
4 40 (4.91%) Nokia
5 36 (4.42%) Juniper
6 31 (3.81%) BT
7 26 (3.19%) Ericsson
8 21 (2.58%) IBM
9 19 (2.33%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.84%) Avaya
11 14 (1.72%) Google
11 14 (1.72%) VMware
12 13 (1.60%) Oracle
13 12 (1.47%) Actix
13 12 (1.47%) Huawei
13 12 (1.47%) Ribbon
14 11 (1.35%) Salesforce
15 10 (1.23%) Remedy
16 8 (0.98%) CheckPoint
16 8 (0.98%) Red Hat