BT Contract Job Trends in South Wales

BT
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 18 November 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
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BT 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 2.56% - -
As % of the Vendors category 6.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
Wales median daily rate £300 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £12.82 - -
25th Percentile £16.18 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 - -

All Vendors
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 141 134 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 40.17% 36.22% 46.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 85 139
10th Percentile £190 £160 £184
25th Percentile £290 £209 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £550 £622
90th Percentile £600 £642 £650
Wales median daily rate £343 £473 £488
% change year-on-year -27.51% -3.08% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 8
10th Percentile £13.47 £24.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.74 £25.60 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £50.00 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -59.00% +109.07% +32.86%
75th Percentile £20.75 £51.88 £26.31
90th Percentile £27.85 £54.25 £65.87
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £30.00 £23.92
% change year-on-year -31.67% +25.44% +32.86%

BT
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

BT job vacancy trend in South Wales

BT
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing BT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing BT

BT
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing BT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing BT

BT
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BT within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
Glamorgan - 8 - - 7
Merthyr Tydfil - 2 - - 1
Cardiff - 1 £300 - 4
BT
Wales

BT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Data Centre Operator
2 5 (55.56%) IT Support
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Service Advisor
4 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Batch Scheduling
1 6 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 5 (55.56%) BCP
2 5 (55.56%) Business Continuity
2 5 (55.56%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 2 (22.22%) EAM
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Batch Processing
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JCL
1 1 (11.11%) Korn
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) BMC
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Xerox