Openreach Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

BT Openreach Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median BT Openreach Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £165, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Openreach Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.15% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £158 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 - -
75th Percentile £173 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £165 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 595 841 952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.41% 94.39% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 541 740
10th Percentile £203 £185 £213
25th Percentile £325 £275 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -10.05% +8.00%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £594
90th Percentile £593 £622 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 95 49
10th Percentile £14.29 £11.83 £13.07
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.39 £17.72 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +20.71% -18.23% +8.35%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £38.18 £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.53 £45.00
% change year-on-year -27.26% -12.17% +83.67%

Openreach Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Openreach Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
Derbyshire - 1 £165 -
Openreach Engineer
England

Openreach Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 June 2025, Openreach Engineer 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 across the East Midlands region featuring Openreach Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) PSTN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (100.00%) Openreach

Openreach Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) PSTN
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Openreach