Cabling Engineer Contracts in England

Cabling Engineer
UK > England

The median Cabling Engineer daily rate in England is £205, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 476 645
Rank change year-on-year +38 +169 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Cabling Engineer 47 66 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.18% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.19% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 52 8
10th Percentile £175 £160 £287
25th Percentile £197 £170 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £183 £300
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% -39.17% +100.00%
75th Percentile £240 £219 £500
90th Percentile £300 £250 -
UK median daily rate £205 £175 £300
% change year-on-year +17.14% -41.67% +100.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cabling Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cabling Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cabling Engineer in England

Cabling Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cabling Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Cabling Engineer in England

Cabling Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cabling Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cabling Engineer in England

Cabling Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cabling Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cabling Engineer in England

Cabling Engineer
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 Cabling Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +26 16 £225 - 13
South East +51 13 £213 +23.19% 19
North West +21 11 £205 +2.76% 2
North of England +13 11 £205 +20.59% 7
East of England +24 4 £183 -1.35% 4
Midlands +22 2 £225 -2.70% 7
South West +46 1 £190 - 8
West Midlands +13 1 £225 -2.70% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
Cabling Engineer
UK

Cabling Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cabling 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 England region featuring Cabling Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (65.96%) Structured Cabling
2 23 (48.94%) Security Cleared
3 19 (40.43%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (38.30%) SC Cleared
5 15 (31.91%) Fibre Optics
6 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
7 10 (21.28%) Data Centre
7 10 (21.28%) Project Management
8 9 (19.15%) Data Protection
8 9 (19.15%) DV Cleared
9 6 (12.77%) Driving Licence
9 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (10.64%) Project Planning
10 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
11 4 (8.51%) Time Management
11 4 (8.51%) QA
11 4 (8.51%) Retail
11 4 (8.51%) Change Management
11 4 (8.51%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (8.51%) Wireless
11 4 (8.51%) Risk Management
12 3 (6.38%) Line Management
12 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 2 (4.26%) Arista
13 2 (4.26%) Confluence
13 2 (4.26%) Aruba
13 2 (4.26%) JIRA
13 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
13 2 (4.26%) MS Visio

Cabling Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) AutoCAD
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.13%) Revit
Communications & Networking
1 31 (65.96%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (8.51%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (8.51%) Wireless
3 2 (4.26%) WAN
4 1 (2.13%) 5G
4 1 (2.13%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) JIRA
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.51%) Retail
4 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.13%) Electronics
5 1 (2.13%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.91%) Fibre Optics
2 10 (21.28%) Data Centre
3 6 (12.77%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.13%) CCTV
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (21.28%) Project Management
3 9 (19.15%) Data Protection
4 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (10.64%) Project Planning
6 4 (8.51%) Change Management
6 4 (8.51%) Risk Management
6 4 (8.51%) Time Management
7 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (6.38%) Line Management
8 2 (4.26%) Network Design
9 1 (2.13%) Break/Fix
9 1 (2.13%) Computer Science
9 1 (2.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (2.13%) Data Centre Operations
9 1 (2.13%) Electronic Trading
9 1 (2.13%) Migration
9 1 (2.13%) Risk Assessment
9 1 (2.13%) Test Strategy
9 1 (2.13%) Validation
Qualifications
1 23 (48.94%) Security Cleared
2 18 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 9 (19.15%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) BICSI Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (4.26%) Arista
1 2 (4.26%) Aruba
1 2 (4.26%) Cisco
1 2 (4.26%) Dell
1 2 (4.26%) HP
2 1 (2.13%) Computacenter
2 1 (2.13%) Fujitsu
2 1 (2.13%) Sun