BT Contract Job Trends in England

BT
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of BT products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BT over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, 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 Group plc.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 487 474
Rank change year-on-year -100 -13 +93
Contract jobs citing BT 35 21 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.076% 0.076% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% 0.16% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 7
10th Percentile £183 £474 £169
25th Percentile £298 £488 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £531 £650 £763
90th Percentile £655 - £875
UK median daily rate £475 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 12
10th Percentile £16.35 £13.80 £14.01
25th Percentile £17.59 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £13.81 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +240.33% -5.57% -16.43%
75th Percentile £50.00 £14.47 £15.19
90th Percentile - £14.69 -
UK median hourly rate £47.00 £14.69 £14.63
% change year-on-year +219.95% +0.44% -16.43%

All Vendors
England

BT 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,097 13,075 14,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.12% 43.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,953 8,297 9,045
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £615 £630
90th Percentile £705 £705 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 622 661
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.46 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.11 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.68% -16.17% -28.53%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £28.50
% change year-on-year +19.13% -11.75% -33.72%

BT
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

BT job vacancy trend in England

BT
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BT

BT
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BT in England over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BT in England

BT
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BT

BT
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BT in England over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BT in England

BT
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BT within the England region over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. 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
London -65 15 £475 -20.83% 36
South East -65 12 £475 -2.56% 13
East of England - 6 £425 - 16
West Midlands -40 1 - - 10
Midlands -52 1 - - 10
South West - 1 £469 - 12
BT
UK

BT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) OneSumX
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Azure
3 1 (2.86%) GCP
3 1 (2.86%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) 5G
1 7 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (17.14%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (17.14%) LTE
2 6 (17.14%) VoLTE
2 6 (17.14%) VoWiFi
2 6 (17.14%) WAN
2 6 (17.14%) Wireshark
3 4 (11.43%) DHCP
3 4 (11.43%) DNS
3 4 (11.43%) Firewall
3 4 (11.43%) LAN
3 4 (11.43%) SD-WAN
3 4 (11.43%) Structured Cabling
3 4 (11.43%) VLAN
3 4 (11.43%) VPN
3 4 (11.43%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (5.71%) ADSL
4 2 (5.71%) Internet
4 2 (5.71%) PSTN
General
1 16 (45.71%) Telecoms
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Marketing
3 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Network Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Marketing Manager
3 4 (11.43%) Field Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Network Field Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Data Centre Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Coordinator
6 1 (2.86%) Principal Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Report Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (14.29%) Web Conferencing
2 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.57%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
1 6 (17.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Agile
1 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (22.86%) Service Delivery
3 7 (20.00%) ITIL
4 6 (17.14%) Business Strategy
4 6 (17.14%) Change Control
4 6 (17.14%) High Availability
4 6 (17.14%) Matrix Organization
5 5 (14.29%) Analytics
5 5 (14.29%) B2B
5 5 (14.29%) B2B Marketing
5 5 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
5 5 (14.29%) Customer Acquisition
5 5 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 5 (14.29%) Data Analytics
5 5 (14.29%) Demand Generation
5 5 (14.29%) GTM Strategy
5 5 (14.29%) Marketing Strategy
5 5 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (11.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
2 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) BC Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) ACCA
3 1 (2.86%) CIMA
3 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.86%) PMP
3 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) SLA
2 4 (11.43%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) COREP
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) FINREP
3 1 (2.86%) IFRS
3 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (11.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (31.43%) Cisco
3 7 (20.00%) Ericsson
3 7 (20.00%) Huawei
3 7 (20.00%) Nokia
4 5 (14.29%) Salesforce
5 4 (11.43%) CheckPoint
5 4 (11.43%) Commvault
5 4 (11.43%) Meraki
5 4 (11.43%) NetApp
5 4 (11.43%) SolarWinds
5 4 (11.43%) Veeam
5 4 (11.43%) VMware
5 4 (11.43%) Xerox
6 2 (5.71%) Openreach
7 1 (2.86%) Dell
7 1 (2.86%) Google
7 1 (2.86%) SAP
7 1 (2.86%) Wolters Kluwer