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 28 March 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 457 466
Rank change year-on-year -110 +9 +142
Contract jobs citing BT 20 16 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.053% 0.066% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.14% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 35
10th Percentile £333 £192 £158
25th Percentile £363 £319 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £371
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +40.84% -12.71%
75th Percentile £551 £569 £529
90th Percentile £775 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £518 £380
% change year-on-year -8.21% +36.18% -10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 21
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile - - £14.06
Median hourly rate - £13.81 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - -5.57% +12.50%
75th Percentile - - £15.19
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £14.07 £13.81 £14.63
% change year-on-year +1.86% -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 16,599 11,482 15,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.72% 47.34% 42.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,821 7,454 10,215
10th Percentile £313 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £514
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.19% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 875 413 946
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.23 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.91 £14.36
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -32.87%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £77.40 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £28.75 £23.22
% change year-on-year -10.37% +23.84% -40.28%

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 28 March 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
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 28 March 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 -44 10 £515 -6.41% 13
South East -56 4 £393 -20.61% 7
Midlands -77 3 £328 +170.66% 2
South West - 2 £375 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £475 - 1
East Midlands -37 1 £180 +48.76% 1
North West - 1 - - 3
North of England - 1 - - 7
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 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) OneSumX
1 1 (5.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Google Ads
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Broadband
1 3 (15.00%) Internet
1 3 (15.00%) WAN
2 2 (10.00%) 4G
2 2 (10.00%) 5G
2 2 (10.00%) LAN
2 2 (10.00%) MPLS
2 2 (10.00%) NaaS
2 2 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (10.00%) VoIP
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) 2G
3 1 (5.00%) BT 21CN
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (5.00%) Multicast
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) OSPF
3 1 (5.00%) PABX
3 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.00%) Flink
1 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (5.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Billing
5 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Fibre Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Report Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Senior IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Transformation Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Support Officer
4 1 (5.00%) Telephony Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.00%) gRPC
2 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) IVR
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (20.00%) Agile
2 4 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (15.00%) AI
3 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (15.00%) Project Management
3 3 (15.00%) Systems Thinking
4 2 (10.00%) AIOps
4 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) Data Collection
4 2 (10.00%) Design Thinking
4 2 (10.00%) Observability
4 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Project Governance
4 2 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) C++
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) ACCA
2 1 (5.00%) CCIP
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) CIMA
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
2 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (5.00%) COREP
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) FINREP
2 1 (5.00%) GRC
2 1 (5.00%) IFRS
2 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) logstash
1 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco
1 2 (10.00%) Nokia
2 1 (5.00%) Amdocs
2 1 (5.00%) Ariba
2 1 (5.00%) Avaya
2 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Ciena
2 1 (5.00%) Dell
2 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.00%) Ericsson
2 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.00%) Huawei
2 1 (5.00%) Juniper
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Nortel
2 1 (5.00%) OpenText
2 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow