Broadband Contracts in the UK excluding London

Broadband
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 357 418
Rank change year-on-year +56 +61 +51
Contract jobs citing Broadband 35 31 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.76% 0.92% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 22
10th Percentile £220 £236 £329
25th Percentile £250 £273 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £305 £531
Median % change year-on-year +57.38% -42.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £491 £586
90th Percentile £588 £519 £645
UK median daily rate £480 £448 £538
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 1
10th Percentile £13.78 - -
25th Percentile - £12.28 £14.01
Median hourly rate £13.81 £20.53 £14.03
Median % change year-on-year -32.74% +46.40% +27.50%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £14.04
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £13.81 £24.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year -42.46% -62.79% +126.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,985 3,385 3,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.52% 16.46% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 1,940 2,259
10th Percentile £195 £203 £210
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £520
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.81% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 358 322
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.43 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.40 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £30.70 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -23.25% +112.54% -31.56%

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 6 May 2025.

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
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 6 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
Midlands +28 12 - - 56
North of England +22 12 £525 +77.97% 89
East Midlands +20 10 - - 29
North West +13 8 £550 +86.44% 49
South East +30 7 £494 +4.00% 72
South West +36 6 £250 -15.25% 36
Yorkshire +22 4 £220 +10.00% 31
West Midlands +16 2 - - 26
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 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) VPN
2 7 (20.00%) BGP
2 7 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 7 (20.00%) OSPF
3 6 (17.14%) Converged Networks
3 6 (17.14%) LAN
3 6 (17.14%) Network Security
3 6 (17.14%) WAN
4 4 (11.43%) ADSL
4 4 (11.43%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (11.43%) HSRP
4 4 (11.43%) IPsec
4 4 (11.43%) NetScaler
4 4 (11.43%) PSTN
5 3 (8.57%) IPv6
5 3 (8.57%) MPLS
6 2 (5.71%) Firewall
6 2 (5.71%) Multicast
6 2 (5.71%) Wireless
General
1 11 (31.43%) Telecoms
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Banking
3 2 (5.71%) Billing
3 2 (5.71%) Games
3 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Network Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Coordinator
2 4 (11.43%) Project Coordinator
3 3 (8.57%) Help Desk Technician
3 3 (8.57%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Principal Network Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Scrum Master
4 2 (5.71%) Agile Scrum Master
4 2 (5.71%) Customer Service Advisor
4 2 (5.71%) Designer
4 2 (5.71%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Principal Security Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (2.86%) Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Management Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Network Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Service Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Driving Licence
2 4 (11.43%) Fibre Optics
3 3 (8.57%) CCTV
3 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Customer Experience
2 6 (17.14%) Load Balancing
3 4 (11.43%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (8.57%) Agile
4 3 (8.57%) Backlog Management
4 3 (8.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (8.57%) Burndown Charts
4 3 (8.57%) Coaching
4 3 (8.57%) Incident Management
4 3 (8.57%) Kanban
4 3 (8.57%) Migration
4 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.57%) Product Backlog
4 3 (8.57%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
4 3 (8.57%) Scrum
4 3 (8.57%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (8.57%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (8.57%) Statistics
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (17.14%) CCNA
2 6 (17.14%) Degree
3 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (8.57%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) BT
2 9 (25.71%) Cisco
3 4 (11.43%) Palo Alto
3 4 (11.43%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) Openreach
4 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.71%) Virgin Media