Broadband Contracts in the UK excluding London

Broadband
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Broadband skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Broadband over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 433 485
Rank change year-on-year +137 +52 -106
Contract jobs citing Broadband 99 32 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.82% 0.87% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 27
10th Percentile £200 £329 £275
25th Percentile £273 £403 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.99% -0.75% +66.67%
75th Percentile £493 £584 £531
90th Percentile £538 £645 £652
UK median daily rate £493 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -8.28% +7.50% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile - £9.66 -
25th Percentile £12.28 £10.39 £10.50
Median hourly rate £20.53 £11.60 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.97% +5.48% -4.35%
75th Percentile £28.75 £12.82 £11.50
90th Percentile - £13.55 -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £63.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year -61.90% +98.43% +176.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Broadband is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,515 3,667 4,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.91% 15.04% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,016 2,337 2,684
10th Percentile £203 £206 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +10.59% +7.38%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £540
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 344 242
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.35 £9.80 £15.56
Median hourly rate £46.39 £18.50 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +150.76% -13.65% -14.30%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.13 £47.36
90th Percentile £71.01 £74.28 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% -

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Broadband as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in the UK excluding London

Broadband
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Broadband in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Broadband in the UK excluding London

Broadband
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Broadband in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Broadband in the UK excluding London

Broadband
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Broadband in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Broadband in the UK excluding London

Broadband
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Broadband in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Broadband in the UK excluding London

Broadband
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
South East +83 77 £448 -23.74% 20
North of England +43 11 £295 -26.25% 25
North West +30 10 £295 -25.55% 12
South West +25 5 £295 -30.59% 3
Midlands +38 4 - - 11
Scotland +38 3 £298 -45.91% 8
West Midlands +28 2 - - 5
East of England +9 2 £265 -45.64% 6
East Midlands - 2 - - 6
Yorkshire +19 1 £200 -50.00% 13
Wales - 1 - - 1
Broadband
UK

Broadband
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 66 (66.67%) IaaS
1 66 (66.67%) PaaS
1 66 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (2.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 69 (69.70%) 5G
2 8 (8.08%) LAN
3 5 (5.05%) Internet
3 5 (5.05%) VoIP
3 5 (5.05%) WAN
4 4 (4.04%) Firewall
4 4 (4.04%) Wireless
5 3 (3.03%) 4G
5 3 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (3.03%) DHCP
5 3 (3.03%) VPN
6 2 (2.02%) Converged Networks
6 2 (2.02%) DNS
6 2 (2.02%) Network Security
6 2 (2.02%) Skype
7 1 (1.01%) 3G
7 1 (1.01%) DSL
7 1 (1.01%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.01%) MPLS
7 1 (1.01%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.01%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (2.02%) JIRA
2 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (68.69%) Organisational Skills
2 67 (67.68%) Law
3 10 (10.10%) Telecoms
4 7 (7.07%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.02%) Finance
5 2 (2.02%) French Language
5 2 (2.02%) German Language
5 2 (2.02%) Italian Language
5 2 (2.02%) Marketing
5 2 (2.02%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (69.70%) Security Specialist
2 66 (66.67%) Penetration Tester
2 66 (66.67%) Security Penetration Tester
2 66 (66.67%) Security Tester
2 66 (66.67%) Tester
2 66 (66.67%) Testing Specialist
3 9 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 4 (4.04%) Analyst
5 3 (3.03%) Network Support
5 3 (3.03%) Network Support Engineer
5 3 (3.03%) Senior
5 3 (3.03%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 3 (3.03%) Senior Security Specialist
5 3 (3.03%) Support Engineer
6 2 (2.02%) Data Designer
6 2 (2.02%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (2.02%) Product Owner
6 2 (2.02%) Provisioning Engineer
6 2 (2.02%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (2.02%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (2.02%) Java EE
2 2 (2.02%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 66 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.02%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.02%) Life Science
3 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.01%) IoT
4 1 (1.01%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.04%) Windows
2 3 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (69.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 68 (68.69%) Cybersecurity
3 66 (66.67%) Application Security
3 66 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 66 (66.67%) OWASP
3 66 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
3 66 (66.67%) Security Testing
4 6 (6.06%) Customer Service
5 4 (4.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (4.04%) Incident Management
5 4 (4.04%) Service Delivery
6 3 (3.03%) Agile
6 3 (3.03%) Business Analysis
6 3 (3.03%) CRM
6 3 (3.03%) ITIL
6 3 (3.03%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (3.03%) Scrum
6 3 (3.03%) Security Operations
7 2 (2.02%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.02%) Java
1 2 (2.02%) SQL
2 1 (1.01%) C
2 1 (1.01%) Python
Qualifications
1 68 (68.69%) Security Cleared
2 66 (66.67%) CREST Certified
2 66 (66.67%) GIAC
2 66 (66.67%) GPEN
2 66 (66.67%) OSCP
2 66 (66.67%) SANS
3 7 (7.07%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (7.07%) Degree
4 6 (6.06%) CCNA
5 2 (2.02%) CCNP
5 2 (2.02%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.01%) APMP
6 1 (1.01%) CCSP
6 1 (1.01%) CISA
6 1 (1.01%) CISM
6 1 (1.01%) CISMP
6 1 (1.01%) CISSP
6 1 (1.01%) CRISC
6 1 (1.01%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (66.67%) GDPR
1 66 (66.67%) NCSC
1 66 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.02%) NIST
3 1 (1.01%) COBIT
3 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.01%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.01%) Ansible
Vendors
1 68 (68.69%) Virgin Media
2 9 (9.09%) Cisco
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.03%) Splunk
4 2 (2.02%) Openreach
4 2 (2.02%) Remedy
4 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.02%) SAP
4 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.01%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.01%) Juniper
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud