Telecoms Architect Contracts

Telecommunications Architect
UK

The median Telecommunications Architect daily rate in the UK is £413 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 674 831
Rank change year-on-year +109 +157 -133
Contract jobs requiring a Telecoms Architect 6 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.023% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.024% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 7
10th Percentile £371 £499 £437
25th Percentile £384 £519 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -28.26% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £444 £775 £719
90th Percentile £459 £955 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £419 £550 £469
% change year-on-year -23.86% +17.33% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £68.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Telecoms Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Telecoms Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms Architect in the UK

Telecoms Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Telecoms Architect.

Daily rate trend for Telecoms Architect in the UK

Telecoms Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Telecoms Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms Architect in the UK

Telecoms Architect
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms Architect within the UK 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
England +101 3 £419 -31.63% 1
UK excluding London +58 3 £419 -23.86% 1
South East +34 3 £419 -27.17%
Work from Home +103 2 - -

Telecoms Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Telecoms Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Telecoms Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) NIST
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
4 1 (16.67%) Security Management
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
4 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (16.67%) GDPR
4 1 (16.67%) Databricks
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) CDMA
4 1 (16.67%) GSM
4 1 (16.67%) SDH
4 1 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) Netcool

Telecoms Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) CDMA
1 1 (16.67%) DWDM
1 1 (16.67%) GSM
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) NGN
1 1 (16.67%) SDH
General
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Application Security
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) OWASP
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) COBIT
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (16.67%) Netcool
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Amdocs
2 1 (16.67%) Cramer
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) HP