Openreach Contracts in Reading

Openreach
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 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 Openreach.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Openreach 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% - 0.096%
As % of the Vendors category 0.93% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £471 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £488
75th Percentile £501 - £494
90th Percentile £502 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £488 - £494

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 322 575 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 53.94% 48.24% 51.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 358 369
10th Percentile £350 £213 £372
25th Percentile £456 £413 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -4.35% +11.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £685
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 15
10th Percentile £33.82 £52.90 £29.10
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.38 £47.95
Median hourly rate £53.10 £60.14 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% -7.01% +115.58%
75th Percentile £65.14 £62.03 £66.21
90th Percentile £72.37 £64.66 £73.45
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
% change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%

Openreach
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Openreach as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Openreach in Reading

Openreach
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Openreach in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Openreach in Reading

Openreach
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (66.67%) Broadband
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) BSS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (33.33%) OSS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) BT
1 3 (100.00%) Virgin Media
8 Openreach jobs in Berkshire