Openreach Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Openreach
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 8 August 2026, 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
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 119 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Openreach 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.22% 0.059% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.53% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £255 - -
25th Percentile £263 £378 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £405 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.10% - -
75th Percentile £291 £433 -
90th Percentile £301 - -
UK median daily rate £275 £440 £900
% change year-on-year -37.50% -51.11% +100.00%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 941 770 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 42.14% 45.81% 39.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 430 480
10th Percentile £244 £252 £175
25th Percentile £375 £370 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £470 £432
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +8.92% -9.16%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £538
90th Percentile £638 £600 £676
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 61 32
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.02 £12.46
25th Percentile £13.97 £16.84 £15.19
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.87 £18.07
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +4.46% +1.95%
75th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £21.45
90th Percentile £68.70 £27.95 £42.05
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +35.11% -10.18% -33.01%

Openreach
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Openreach relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Openreach job vacancy trend in Scotland

Openreach
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Openreach.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Openreach

Openreach
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Openreach.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Openreach

Openreach
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Openreach within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 August 2026. 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
Glasgow -1 4 £263 -35.19% 1
Openreach
UK

Openreach
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) SDH
General
1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Network Design
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) CAD
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) BT
2 3 (60.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco