Cabling Engineer Contracts in London

Cabling Engineer
England > London

The median Cabling Engineer daily rate in London is £288, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 368 472
Rank change year-on-year +35 +104 +125
Contract jobs requiring a Cabling Engineer 11 25 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.090% 0.14% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.15% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 4
10th Percentile £208 £174 £283
25th Percentile £228 £183 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £225 £400
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -43.75% +135.29%
75th Percentile £319 £250 £500
90th Percentile £474 £290 -
England median daily rate £205 £175 £298
% change year-on-year +17.14% -41.18% +98.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,456 16,326 24,227
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.54% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,770 11,799 17,668
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 321 276
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £17.99
25th Percentile £24.30 £20.02 £22.72
Median hourly rate £31.67 £27.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.17% -23.61% +2.86%
75th Percentile £49.94 £46.48 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.08 £65.03 £82.38
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%

Cabling Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cabling Engineer in London

Cabling Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cabling Engineer in London

Cabling Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cabling Engineer in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cabling Engineer in London

Cabling Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cabling Engineer in London

Cabling Engineer
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 Cabling Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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
West London +4 5 £275 +10.00% 1
Central London +10 2 £300 +33.33% 1
Cabling Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 London region featuring Cabling Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (63.64%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
3 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (27.27%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Network Design
4 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
4 2 (18.18%) HP
4 2 (18.18%) Dell
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Driving Licence
4 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) Confluence
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 2 (18.18%) Arista
5 1 (9.09%) Bill of Materials
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Revit
5 1 (9.09%) BICSI Certification
5 1 (9.09%) Line Management
5 1 (9.09%) 5G
5 1 (9.09%) Unix
5 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Operations

Cabling Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
2 1 (9.09%) AutoCAD
2 1 (9.09%) Revit
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (9.09%) 5G
3 1 (9.09%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Wireless
3 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Driving Licence
2 2 (18.18%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (9.09%) CCTV
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (27.27%) Project Management
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Network Design
3 1 (9.09%) Bill of Materials
3 1 (9.09%) Change Management
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (9.09%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (9.09%) Line Management
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Project Planning
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) Time Management
3 1 (9.09%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BICSI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Arista
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco
1 2 (18.18%) Dell
1 2 (18.18%) HP
2 1 (9.09%) Fujitsu
2 1 (9.09%) Sun