Cabling Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cabling Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cabling Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £205, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 345 -
Rank change year-on-year +40 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cabling Engineer 31 54 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.26% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 25 51 0
10th Percentile £177 £160 -
25th Percentile £190 £170 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £175 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% - -
75th Percentile £218 £200 -
90th Percentile £243 £215 -
UK median daily rate £205 £175 £300
% change year-on-year +17.14% -41.67% +100.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cabling Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cabling Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cabling Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cabling Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cabling Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cabling Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cabling Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cabling Engineer
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 Cabling Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +51 13 £213 +23.19% 19
North West +21 11 £205 +2.76% 2
North of England +13 11 £205 +20.59% 7
East of England +24 4 £183 -1.35% 4
Midlands +22 2 £225 -2.70% 7
South West +46 1 £190 - 8
West Midlands +13 1 £225 -2.70% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
Cabling Engineer
UK

Cabling Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cabling Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cabling Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (64.52%) Structured Cabling
2 19 (61.29%) Security Cleared
3 18 (58.06%) SC Cleared
4 14 (45.16%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (41.94%) Fibre Optics
6 9 (29.03%) Data Protection
6 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
7 7 (22.58%) Data Centre
8 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
8 5 (16.13%) Project Management
9 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (12.90%) Retail
10 3 (9.68%) Wireless
11 2 (6.45%) Risk Management
11 2 (6.45%) Change Management
11 2 (6.45%) Project Planning
11 2 (6.45%) QA
11 2 (6.45%) Time Management
11 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (6.45%) Driving Licence
11 2 (6.45%) Aruba
11 2 (6.45%) Line Management
11 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (3.23%) Customer Service
12 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
12 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1 (3.23%) Break/Fix
12 1 (3.23%) Computacenter
12 1 (3.23%) SLA

Cabling Engineer Skill Set
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 (3.23%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 20 (64.52%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (9.68%) Wireless
3 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Retail
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Fibre Optics
2 7 (22.58%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) Data Protection
3 5 (16.13%) Project Management
4 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (6.45%) Change Management
5 2 (6.45%) Line Management
5 2 (6.45%) Project Planning
5 2 (6.45%) Risk Management
5 2 (6.45%) Time Management
6 1 (3.23%) Break/Fix
6 1 (3.23%) Customer Service
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 19 (61.29%) Security Cleared
2 18 (58.06%) SC Cleared
3 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Aruba
2 1 (3.23%) Computacenter