Openreach Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Openreach
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring knowledge or experience of Openreach products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Openreach over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 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 Openreach.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 87 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Openreach 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.38% 0.13% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.86% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £253 - -
25th Percentile £256 £378 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £405 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% - -
75th Percentile £269 £433 -
90th Percentile £273 - -
Scotland median daily rate £275 £405 -
% change year-on-year -32.10% - -

All Vendors
Glasgow

Openreach 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 466 363 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 44.05% 45.95% 40.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 237 204
10th Percentile £263 £300 £200
25th Percentile £359 £370 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +3.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £556
90th Percentile £644 £600 £668
Scotland median daily rate £460 £470 £432
% change year-on-year -2.13% +8.92% -9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 6
10th Percentile £13.45 - £14.65
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.84 £17.32
Median hourly rate £14.65 £25.15 £31.52
Median % change year-on-year -41.77% -20.21% +77.88%
75th Percentile £16.33 - £54.14
90th Percentile £17.08 - £61.25
Scotland median hourly rate £16.09 £18.87 £18.07
% change year-on-year -14.73% +4.46% +1.95%

Openreach
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Openreach relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Openreach job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Openreach
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Openreach.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Openreach

Openreach
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Openreach.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Openreach

Openreach
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) SDH
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) CAD
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) BT
2 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco