Broadband Contracts in London

Broadband
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Broadband skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Broadband over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 367 427
Rank change year-on-year +34 +60 +82
Contract jobs citing Broadband 20 24 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.52% 1.40% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 35
10th Percentile £437 £510 £353
25th Percentile £458 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £500 £645 £686
90th Percentile £510 £675 £740
England median daily rate £480 £488 £538
% change year-on-year -1.54% -9.30% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £23.35 £62.00
25th Percentile - £23.50 £62.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.00 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -62.93% +38.13%
75th Percentile - £24.50 £69.38
90th Percentile - £24.65 £70.00
England median hourly rate £13.81 £24.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year -42.46% -62.79% +126.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

Broadband falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Broadband as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in London

Broadband
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Broadband in London.

Daily rate trend for Broadband in London

Broadband
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Broadband in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Broadband in London

Broadband
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Broadband in London.

Hourly rate trend for Broadband in London

Broadband
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the London 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
Central London +5 2 £500 -3.85% 1
West London - 1 £478 - 6
Broadband
England

Broadband
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (5.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) GitHub
1 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) BGP
1 11 (55.00%) IPv6
1 11 (55.00%) MPLS
1 11 (55.00%) OSPF
2 10 (50.00%) VPN
3 9 (45.00%) Firewall
4 8 (40.00%) GPON
5 6 (30.00%) Multicast
5 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (25.00%) 802.11
6 5 (25.00%) DOCSIS
6 5 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (25.00%) Wireless
7 4 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (20.00%) LAN
7 4 (20.00%) WAN
8 3 (15.00%) DHCP
8 3 (15.00%) IPv4
8 3 (15.00%) PPP
8 3 (15.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Gerrit
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Principal Engineer
3 8 (40.00%) Principal Network Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Implementation Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Broadband Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Tester
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Core Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Diagnostic Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Secure Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) 802.1X
2 3 (15.00%) Yocto
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.00%) POSIX
3 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (15.00%) Digital TV
1 3 (15.00%) STB
2 2 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (10.00%) OpenWrt
4 1 (5.00%) CentOS
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Network Monitoring
2 8 (40.00%) Migration
2 8 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 4 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.00%) Data Science
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.00%) Agile
6 1 (5.00%) Clean Code
6 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.00%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (5.00%) Load Balancing
6 1 (5.00%) Network Design
6 1 (5.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) C++
2 1 (5.00%) Go
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (45.00%) CCIE
3 5 (25.00%) CCIE Service Provider
4 3 (15.00%) CCNA
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
5 2 (10.00%) CCNP
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (10.00%) JNCIA
5 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Graylog
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Nagios
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Cisco
2 7 (35.00%) SolarWinds
3 5 (25.00%) Nokia
4 2 (10.00%) Aruba
4 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (10.00%) Juniper
4 2 (10.00%) Meraki
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) Splunk
5 1 (5.00%) VMware