Starlink Contract Job Trends in the South West

Starlink
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring knowledge or experience of Starlink products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Starlink over the 6 months leading up to 4 March 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 Starlink Services, LLC.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 112 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing Starlink 3 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.10% 0.29% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% 0.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £206 -
25th Percentile £205 £208 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £220 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £215 £230 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £219 £220 £475
% change year-on-year -0.57% -53.68% -

All Vendors
South West

Starlink 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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 995 813 1,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 34.66% 47.46% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 527 839
10th Percentile £275 £215 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £600 £619 £646
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.94% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 39 170
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.45 £14.54
25th Percentile £23.12 £25.26 £38.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £72.63 £70.89 £71.04
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £25.28
% change year-on-year -23.43% +24.02% -27.79%

Starlink
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Starlink job vacancy trend in the South West

Starlink
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 Starlink within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 March 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
Gloucestershire -11 3 £210 -4.55% 4
Starlink
England

Starlink
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 3 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (66.67%) iPad
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Inventory Management
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) McAfee