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 21 May 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 465 451
Rank change year-on-year -93 -14 +149
Contract jobs citing BT 35 24 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.085% 0.099% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.21% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 26
10th Percentile £311 £476 £158
25th Percentile £363 £497 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £311
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +85.19% -1.04%
75th Percentile £519 £650 £684
90th Percentile £614 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £393
% change year-on-year -9.52% +33.59% +25.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 24
10th Percentile £30.81 £13.80 £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 £14.03 £15.19
90th Percentile - £14.69 -
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 16,907 11,546 15,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.01% 47.68% 41.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,945 7,418 9,750
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £523 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +1.46% -3.74%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £633
90th Percentile £703 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £514
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.29% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 884 471 1,004
10th Percentile £15.45 £14.84 £12.04
25th Percentile £18.73 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%
75th Percentile £59.19 £58.72 £57.37
90th Percentile £76.17 £73.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.08
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.52% -47.85%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -46 17 £515 -14.17% 5
South East -52 14 £475 -2.56% 4
Midlands -62 2 £180 -
South West - 2 £375 - 4
East Midlands -31 1 £180 -
West Midlands -58 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 6 (17.14%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) OneSumX
1 1 (2.86%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) SaaS
3 4 (11.43%) Google Ads
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) 5G
1 8 (22.86%) Radio Access Network
2 7 (20.00%) WAN
3 6 (17.14%) Diameter Protocol
3 6 (17.14%) LTE
3 6 (17.14%) VoLTE
3 6 (17.14%) VoWiFi
3 6 (17.14%) VPN
3 6 (17.14%) Wireshark
4 5 (14.29%) Firewall
4 5 (14.29%) LAN
5 4 (11.43%) DHCP
5 4 (11.43%) DNS
5 4 (11.43%) SD-WAN
5 4 (11.43%) VLAN
5 4 (11.43%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (8.57%) Broadband
6 3 (8.57%) Internet
7 2 (5.71%) MPLS
7 2 (5.71%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.86%) Flink
1 1 (2.86%) InfluxDB
1 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.86%) MySQL
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.86%) SAP BW
1 1 (2.86%) SAP HANA
1 1 (2.86%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
1 1 (2.86%) Robot Framework
1 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.29%) Marketing
4 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Billing
6 1 (2.86%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (14.29%) Marketing Manager
2 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Network Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.57%) Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Data Centre Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Programme Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Coordinator
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Field Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) IT Manager
5 1 (2.86%) IT Programme Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Senior IT Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Programme Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.86%) gRPC
2 1 (2.86%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.86%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 5 (14.29%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.86%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
1 6 (17.14%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Service Delivery
2 6 (17.14%) B2B
2 6 (17.14%) High Availability
2 6 (17.14%) Matrix Organization
3 5 (14.29%) B2B Marketing
3 5 (14.29%) Change Control
3 5 (14.29%) Customer Acquisition
3 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 5 (14.29%) Demand Generation
3 5 (14.29%) GTM Strategy
3 5 (14.29%) Marketing Strategy
3 5 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (11.43%) Agile
4 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (11.43%) Migration
4 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
5 3 (8.57%) AI
5 3 (8.57%) Business Analysis
5 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) C++
3 1 (2.86%) Java
3 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) ACCA
2 1 (2.86%) BC Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.86%) CCIP
2 1 (2.86%) CCNP
2 1 (2.86%) CIMA
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.86%) PMP
2 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) SLA
2 3 (8.57%) PMO
3 2 (5.71%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) COREP
4 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.86%) FINREP
4 1 (2.86%) GRC
4 1 (2.86%) IFRS
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
2 1 (2.86%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (2.86%) Grafana
2 1 (2.86%) logstash
2 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Cisco
2 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
3 8 (22.86%) Nokia
4 7 (20.00%) Ericsson
4 7 (20.00%) Huawei
5 6 (17.14%) Salesforce
6 5 (14.29%) CheckPoint
7 4 (11.43%) Commvault
7 4 (11.43%) Meraki
7 4 (11.43%) NetApp
7 4 (11.43%) SolarWinds
7 4 (11.43%) Veeam
7 4 (11.43%) VMware
7 4 (11.43%) Xerox
8 1 (2.86%) Amdocs
8 1 (2.86%) Ciena
8 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.86%) Openreach
8 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.86%) Wolters Kluwer