Starlink Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Starlink
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Starlink products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Starlink over the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Starlink Services, LLC.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 362 409
Rank change year-on-year -24 +47 -
Contract jobs citing Starlink 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.045% 0.018% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.095% 0.041% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £206 - -
25th Percentile £208 £185 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £190 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% - -
75th Percentile £238 £195 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £225 £190 -
% change year-on-year +18.42% - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Starlink falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,416 7,340 9,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.44% 45.00% 47.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,446 4,238 6,177
10th Percentile £220 £220 £210
25th Percentile £370 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 652 428 531
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.22 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.54 £16.92 £18.27
Median hourly rate £22.04 £27.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.85% -38.20% +96.97%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.51 £61.38
90th Percentile £74.93 £73.83 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% -32.58% +73.08%

Starlink
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Starlink job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Starlink
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Starlink
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 Starlink within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 November 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 West +11 4 £225 -
East of England -13 4 £225 +18.42% 1
Starlink
UK

Starlink
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Desktop Support
2 7 (87.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) iPad
1 7 (87.50%) iPhone
2 6 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Customer Service
2 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (75.00%) Antivirus Management
3 6 (75.00%) Inventory Management
3 6 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (75.00%) Time Management
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Chat Support
4 1 (12.50%) Logistics
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) McAfee