Broadband Contracts in the South East

Broadband
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 166 213
Rank change year-on-year +18 +47 +33
Contract jobs citing Broadband 7 25 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.45% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.35% 2.03% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile £465 £319 £460
25th Percentile £471 £399 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -20.83% +28.48%
75th Percentile £501 £500 -
90th Percentile £506 £560 £630
England median daily rate £480 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +1.05% -11.63% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.01
Median hourly rate - - £14.03
75th Percentile - - £14.04
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £13.81 £24.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year -42.46% -62.79% +130.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 520 1,234 960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.32% 22.26% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 611 580
10th Percentile £210 £205 £235
25th Percentile £325 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £486
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +0.77% +8.06%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 131 75
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.25
25th Percentile £20.85 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.88 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% +9.24% +144.19%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £85.65 £80.25
England median hourly rate £28.41 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.98% +116.22% -22.63%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Broadband as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in the South East

Broadband
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Broadband in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Broadband in the South East

Broadband
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Broadband in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Broadband in the South East

Broadband
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Thames Valley +19 7 £494 +4.00% 35
Berkshire +12 6 £494 +4.00% 18
Buckinghamshire - 1 £500 - 4
Broadband
England

Broadband
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (14.29%) IPv6
1 1 (14.29%) MPLS
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 6 (85.71%) Telecoms
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Billing
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Scrum Master
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Scrum Master
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Management Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Backlog Management
1 3 (42.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 3 (42.86%) Burndown Charts
1 3 (42.86%) Coaching
1 3 (42.86%) Kanban
1 3 (42.86%) Product Backlog
1 3 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
1 3 (42.86%) Scrum
1 3 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (42.86%) Sprint Retrospective
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (42.86%) Statistics
2 2 (28.57%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) BT
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Openreach
1 2 (28.57%) Virgin Media
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco