Microwave Backhaul Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microwave Backhaul
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microwave Backhaul skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microwave Backhaul 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.042% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
UK median daily rate £450 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Microwave Backhaul 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 2,389 2,261 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.58% 16.90% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,332 2,061
10th Percentile £193 £185 £205
25th Percentile £313 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -1.68% +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £660 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £481
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.06% -7.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 108 308
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.41 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.26 £21.00 £20.96
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -39.92% +163.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £74.13 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £43.12
% change year-on-year +4.62% -24.62% +123.39%

Microwave Backhaul
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microwave Backhaul relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Microwave Backhaul job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Microwave Backhaul
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microwave Backhaul.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microwave Backhaul

Microwave Backhaul
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 Microwave Backhaul within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
South West - 1 £450 - 1
Microwave Backhaul
UK

Microwave Backhaul
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G NR
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) LTE
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (100.00%) VoLTE
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) RAN Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Transmission Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL