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 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 469 625
Rank change year-on-year +29 +156 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Cabling Engineer 36 68 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.18% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.20% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 55 8
10th Percentile £180 £163 £224
25th Percentile £200 £170 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £175 £298
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -41.18% +98.33%
75th Percentile £250 £212 £369
90th Percentile £305 £250 £500
UK median daily rate £205 £175 £298
% change year-on-year +17.14% -41.18% +98.33%

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 22,187 34,108 44,948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.74% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,690 22,536 31,954
10th Percentile £293 £285 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 2,538 1,319
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.30 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.87% -16.67% +91.49%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.60 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +87.50%

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 30 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 30 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
South East +59 11 £203 +19.12% 13
London +33 11 £288 +27.78% 9
North West +12 11 £205 +20.59% 13
North of England +4 11 £205 +20.59% 16
East of England +25 2 £194 +4.86% 7
Midlands +16 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
Cabling Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 25 (69.44%) Structured Cabling
2 19 (52.78%) Security Cleared
3 17 (47.22%) SC Cleared
4 15 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (38.89%) Fibre Optics
6 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 9 (25.00%) DV Cleared
6 9 (25.00%) Data Protection
7 8 (22.22%) Data Centre
8 6 (16.67%) Project Management
9 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (11.11%) Retail
9 4 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (8.33%) Time Management
10 3 (8.33%) Driving Licence
10 3 (8.33%) Wireless
10 3 (8.33%) QA
11 2 (5.56%) JIRA
11 2 (5.56%) Network Design
11 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
11 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
11 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
11 2 (5.56%) Cisco
11 2 (5.56%) HP
11 2 (5.56%) Dell
11 2 (5.56%) AutoCAD
11 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 2 (5.56%) Arista
11 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills

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 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) AutoCAD
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.78%) Revit
Communications & Networking
1 25 (69.44%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (8.33%) Wireless
4 1 (2.78%) 5G
4 1 (2.78%) WAN
4 1 (2.78%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Retail
3 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.78%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) Fibre Optics
2 8 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.78%) CCTV
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 6 (16.67%) Project Management
4 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (8.33%) Time Management
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (5.56%) Network Design
7 1 (2.78%) Bill of Materials
7 1 (2.78%) Break/Fix
7 1 (2.78%) Change Management
7 1 (2.78%) Computer Science
7 1 (2.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.78%) Data Centre Operations
7 1 (2.78%) Electronic Trading
7 1 (2.78%) Line Management
7 1 (2.78%) Migration
7 1 (2.78%) Project Planning
7 1 (2.78%) Risk Management
7 1 (2.78%) Test Strategy
7 1 (2.78%) Validation
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (47.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) BICSI Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Arista
1 2 (5.56%) Aruba
1 2 (5.56%) Cisco
1 2 (5.56%) Dell
1 2 (5.56%) HP
2 1 (2.78%) Fujitsu
2 1 (2.78%) Sun