Openreach Contracts in the UK excluding London

Openreach
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Openreach products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Openreach over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within BT Openreach.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 430 507
Rank change year-on-year +48 +77 -77
Contract jobs citing Openreach 15 14 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.058% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category 0.17% 0.13% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 3
10th Percentile £383 £358 £156
25th Percentile £503 £400 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £456 £270
Median % change year-on-year +12.88% +68.98% +92.86%
75th Percentile £950 £498 £365
90th Percentile - £506 £422
UK median daily rate £515 £413 £375
% change year-on-year +24.85% +10.00% +32.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £13.75 £15.97 -
90th Percentile £13.90 £17.44 -
UK median hourly rate £13.50 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Openreach is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,902 10,691 12,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.89% 44.56% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,347 7,366 8,359
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 953 474 642
10th Percentile £11.80 £14.28 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.72 £13.89
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year -44.26% +106.79% +0.64%
75th Percentile £58.70 £63.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £54.65
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £43.75 £21.02
% change year-on-year -49.54% +108.14% -6.24%

Openreach
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Openreach in the UK excluding London

Openreach
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Openreach in the UK excluding London

Openreach
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Openreach in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Openreach in the UK excluding London

Openreach
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Openreach in the UK excluding London

Openreach
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 Openreach within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 West +21 6 £900 +339.02% 2
Midlands +30 5 - - 6
South East +19 4 £515 +5.64% 4
West Midlands +28 3 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 4
Openreach
UK

Openreach
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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Internet
1 5 (33.33%) PSTN
2 3 (20.00%) ADSL
2 3 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 3 (20.00%) MPLS
2 3 (20.00%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) Broadband
4 1 (6.67%) ISDN
General
1 7 (46.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Coordinator
1 3 (20.00%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (13.33%) Field Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Field Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Network Communications Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (13.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.67%) CCTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Change Control
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) CRM
3 3 (20.00%) Data Entry
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Order Management
3 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery Management
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (20.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 3 (20.00%) Workflow
4 2 (13.33%) Time Management
5 1 (6.67%) Business Case
5 1 (6.67%) CAD
5 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Identification
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) BC Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) BT
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Virgin Media