Cabling Engineer Contract Job Trends in Barrow-in-Furness

Cabling Engineer
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The median Cabling Engineer daily rate in Barrow-in-Furness is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cabling Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Barrow-in-Furness 0.64% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - -
Cumbria median daily rate £630 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Barrow-in-Furness

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Barrow-in-Furness. 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 Barrow-in-Furness with a recognized job title 128 141 162
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.53% 92.16% 97.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 61 107
10th Percentile £371 £385 £443
25th Percentile £449 £438 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.78% +11.11%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £671
90th Percentile £628 £638 £725
Cumbria median daily rate £481 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -6.10% -0.52% +8.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 28
10th Percentile £21.94 £25.26 £21.76
25th Percentile £28.83 £39.67 £33.48
Median hourly rate £40.31 £56.04 £46.91
Median % change year-on-year -28.07% +19.46% -16.80%
75th Percentile £53.89 £74.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £62.04 £82.28 £68.19
Cumbria median hourly rate £25.49 £54.88 £13.00
% change year-on-year -53.55% +322.15% -76.94%

Cabling Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness

For the 6 months to 9 May 2026, Cabling Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Barrow-in-Furness region featuring Cabling Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Server+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless

Cabling Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Server+ Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow