BT Contracts in the Midlands

BT
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of BT products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BT over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, 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 Group plc.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 130 150
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +45
DemandTrendContract jobs citing BT 12 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.22% 0.067%
As % of the Vendors category 1.01% 0.49% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £255
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.28%
75th Percentile £538 - £263
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £700 £381
% change year-on-year -25.00% +83.61% -28.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £13.78 £13.33 -
25th Percentile - £13.44 £12.50
Median hourly rate £13.81 £13.75 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +5.77% -
75th Percentile - £13.94 £13.50
90th Percentile - £13.98 -
England median hourly rate £13.81 £14.63 £17.50
% change year-on-year -5.57% -16.43% -

All Vendors
Midlands

BT 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 the Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,190 1,219 1,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 46.65% 45.27% 50.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 768 816 971
10th Percentile £232 £250 £210
25th Percentile £350 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% +2.63% -2.06%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £595
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 38 46
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.05 £13.95 £15.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.41 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.26% -27.07% +28.13%
75th Percentile £31.00 £36.19 £62.19
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £91.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -27.50% +77.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing BT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for BT in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BT

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BT

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BT within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands - 8 - - 1
West Midlands -8 4 £525 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) Broadband
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) MPLS
2 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (8.33%) VoIP
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (16.67%) Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Games
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Customer Service Advisor
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Lead Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) SIEM
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) CenturyLink
1 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto