Broadband Contracts in the North of England

Broadband
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 181 215
Rank change year-on-year +27 +34 +13
Contract jobs citing Broadband 12 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.17% 0.069%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.17% 1.34% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 3
10th Percentile £220 £236 £315
25th Percentile £316 £273 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £295 £350
Median % change year-on-year +77.97% -15.71% -39.78%
75th Percentile £588 £314 £425
90th Percentile - £318 £455
England median daily rate £480 £488 £538
% change year-on-year -1.54% -9.30% +2.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 554 595 680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.78% 12.51% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 415 468
10th Percentile £182 £200 £204
25th Percentile £250 £313 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £487
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -2.41% +9.38%
75th Percentile £538 £607 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.66
% change year-on-year -30.00% +114.36% -21.96%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Broadband as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in the North of England

Broadband
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Broadband in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Broadband in the North of England

Broadband
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Broadband in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Broadband in the North of England

Broadband
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Broadband in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Broadband in the North of England

Broadband
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +15 8 £550 +86.44% 58
Yorkshire +10 4 £220 +10.00% 42
Broadband
England

Broadband
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) VPN
2 6 (50.00%) BGP
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 6 (50.00%) Converged Networks
2 6 (50.00%) LAN
2 6 (50.00%) Network Security
2 6 (50.00%) OSPF
2 6 (50.00%) WAN
3 4 (33.33%) ADSL
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (33.33%) HSRP
3 4 (33.33%) IPsec
3 4 (33.33%) NetScaler
3 4 (33.33%) PSTN
4 2 (16.67%) Firewall
4 2 (16.67%) IPv6
4 2 (16.67%) MPLS
4 2 (16.67%) Multicast
4 2 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Help Desk Technician
3 2 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Principal Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Principal Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Monitoring Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Network Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Service Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) CCTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (50.00%) CCNA
3 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (16.67%) CCIE
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 4 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds