Broadband Contracts in the South West

Broadband
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 104 147 165
Rank change year-on-year +43 +18 +12
Contract jobs citing Broadband 6 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.33% 1.14% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile - £273 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £295 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -30.59% -
75th Percentile £466 £318 £438
90th Percentile £538 - £625
England median daily rate £480 £488 £538
% change year-on-year -1.54% -9.30% +2.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 258 528 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.31% 16.55% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 342 414
10th Percentile £250 £282 £213
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £713 £718
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 124
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.18
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.05
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in the South West

Broadband
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Broadband in the South West

Broadband
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Broadband in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Broadband in the South West

Broadband
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Broadband in the South West

Broadband
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +28 4 £250 - 7
Somerset +1 2 £525 +77.97% 4
Broadband
England

Broadband
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (33.33%) IPv6
1 2 (33.33%) MPLS
1 2 (33.33%) Multicast
1 2 (33.33%) OSPF
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Coordinator
1 4 (66.67%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) CCIE
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds