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 19 April 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
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 460 463
Rank change year-on-year -93 +3 +152
Contract jobs citing BT 28 22 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.071% 0.090% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.17% 0.19% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 29
10th Percentile £334 £220 £158
25th Percentile £363 £414 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £300
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +74.17% -26.38%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £549
90th Percentile £765 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £506 £325
% change year-on-year -6.17% +55.77% -23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 24
10th Percentile £28.18 £13.79 £14.02
25th Percentile £44.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £13.81 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +240.33% -5.57% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £15.19
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.00 £13.81 £14.63
% change year-on-year +240.33% -5.57% +12.50%

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 16,859 11,601 15,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.70% 47.37% 42.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,996 7,523 10,003
10th Percentile £313 £296 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £517
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.87% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 879 439 986
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.72 £18.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -41.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.59 £80.02 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.97 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.28% +24.29% -47.06%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -36 15 £525 -4.63% 6
South East -50 8 £400 -17.95% 9
Midlands -72 2 £180 +48.76% 3
South West - 2 £375 - 3
East Midlands -35 1 £180 +48.76% 1
West Midlands -62 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 - - 5
North West - 1 - - 1
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 2 (7.14%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) OneSumX
1 1 (3.57%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Google Ads
2 4 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) 5G
1 4 (14.29%) Internet
1 4 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (14.29%) WAN
2 3 (10.71%) Broadband
2 3 (10.71%) VPN
3 2 (7.14%) 4G
3 2 (7.14%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (7.14%) Firewall
3 2 (7.14%) LAN
3 2 (7.14%) LTE
3 2 (7.14%) MPLS
3 2 (7.14%) NaaS
3 2 (7.14%) VoLTE
3 2 (7.14%) VoWiFi
3 2 (7.14%) Wireshark
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.57%) Multicast
4 1 (3.57%) PABX
4 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.57%) Flink
1 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
1 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.57%) MySQL
1 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.57%) SAP BW
1 1 (3.57%) SAP HANA
1 1 (3.57%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) Robot Framework
1 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Marketing
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Billing
6 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (14.29%) Marketing Manager
1 4 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 3 (10.71%) Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Programme Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (3.57%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Network Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (3.57%) Project Officer
4 1 (3.57%) Project Support Officer
4 1 (3.57%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Senior IT Programme Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.57%) gRPC
2 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (14.29%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) IVR
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Agile
1 5 (17.86%) B2B
1 5 (17.86%) Decision-Making
1 5 (17.86%) Matrix Organization
2 4 (14.29%) B2B Marketing
2 4 (14.29%) Business Analysis
2 4 (14.29%) Customer Acquisition
2 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (14.29%) Demand Generation
2 4 (14.29%) GTM Strategy
2 4 (14.29%) Marketing Strategy
2 4 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (10.71%) Observability
3 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.71%) Project Management
3 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (10.71%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) C++
3 1 (3.57%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) ACCA
2 1 (3.57%) BC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) CCIP
2 1 (3.57%) CCNP
2 1 (3.57%) CIMA
2 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.57%) PMP
2 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) PMO
2 3 (10.71%) SLA
3 2 (7.14%) QA
4 1 (3.57%) COREP
4 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.57%) FINREP
4 1 (3.57%) GRC
4 1 (3.57%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (3.57%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) logstash
2 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Cisco
2 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.86%) Salesforce
4 4 (14.29%) Nokia
5 3 (10.71%) Ericsson
5 3 (10.71%) Huawei
6 2 (7.14%) CheckPoint
6 2 (7.14%) Openreach
7 1 (3.57%) Ariba
7 1 (3.57%) Avaya
7 1 (3.57%) Ciena
7 1 (3.57%) Commvault
7 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.57%) Juniper
7 1 (3.57%) Meraki
7 1 (3.57%) NetApp
7 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.57%) Veeam
7 1 (3.57%) Xerox