Openreach Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Openreach
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring knowledge or experience of Openreach products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Openreach over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within BT Openreach.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Openreach 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.27% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £700 £425 -
% change year-on-year +64.71% - -

All Vendors
Buckinghamshire

Openreach falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 185 205 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 50.55% 51.77% 55.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 149 275
10th Percentile £268 £214 £254
25th Percentile £350 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% -11.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £621
90th Percentile £610 £630 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.39% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 16
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.61 £13.37
25th Percentile £15.62 £16.73 £15.39
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% +36.36% +42.59%
75th Percentile - £35.06 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.37 £27.00
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.65 £45.21
% change year-on-year -65.31% +27.51% +88.38%

Openreach
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Openreach relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Openreach job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Openreach
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Openreach.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Openreach

Openreach
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Openreach within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. 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
Milton Keynes - 1 £700 -
Openreach
South East

Openreach
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Business Process Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BT