Broadband Contracts

Broadband
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 514 608
Rank change year-on-year +50 +94 +85
Contract jobs citing Broadband 55 86 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.47% 1.52% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 63
10th Percentile £250 £269 £333
25th Percentile £422 £274 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -6.98% +4.78%
75th Percentile £510 £561 £600
90th Percentile £563 £658 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £305 £525
% change year-on-year +57.38% -41.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 7
10th Percentile £13.79 £12.28 £42.81
25th Percentile - £15.02 £62.00
Median hourly rate £13.81 £24.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.46% -62.79% +126.32%
75th Percentile - £27.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - £28.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.81 £20.53 £14.03
% change year-on-year -32.74% +46.40% +27.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Broadband as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Broadband.

Daily rate trend for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Broadband over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Broadband.

Hourly rate trend for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Broadband over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +38 55 £480 -4.00% 242
UK excluding London +31 35 £480 +57.38% 198
London +32 20 £478 -14.14% 71
Work from Home +13 13 £500 +69.49% 161
North of England +32 12 £525 +77.97% 71
Midlands +32 12 - - 38
East Midlands +18 10 - - 19
North West +12 8 £550 +86.44% 35
South East +10 7 £494 -1.20% 44
South West +46 6 £250 -15.25% 12
Yorkshire +18 4 £220 +10.00% 32
West Midlands +16 2 - - 19

Broadband
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
1 1 (1.82%) AWS
1 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (1.82%) Azure
1 1 (1.82%) GitHub
1 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (34.55%) VPN
2 18 (32.73%) BGP
2 18 (32.73%) OSPF
3 14 (25.45%) IPv6
3 14 (25.45%) MPLS
4 11 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 11 (20.00%) Firewall
5 10 (18.18%) LAN
5 10 (18.18%) WAN
6 8 (14.55%) GPON
6 8 (14.55%) Multicast
6 8 (14.55%) Network Security
7 7 (12.73%) Converged Networks
7 7 (12.73%) Wireless
8 6 (10.91%) HSRP
8 6 (10.91%) IPsec
8 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
9 5 (9.09%) 802.11
9 5 (9.09%) DOCSIS
9 5 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Gerrit
1 1 (1.82%) Git
1 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 12 (21.82%) Telecoms
2 5 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Banking
4 2 (3.64%) Billing
4 2 (3.64%) Games
5 1 (1.82%) Finance
5 1 (1.82%) Legal
5 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 12 (21.82%) Principal Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) Principal Network Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Coordinator
5 4 (7.27%) Project Coordinator
6 3 (5.45%) Help Desk Technician
6 3 (5.45%) Scrum Master
7 2 (3.64%) Agile Scrum Master
7 2 (3.64%) Automation Tester
7 2 (3.64%) Customer Service Advisor
7 2 (3.64%) Designer
7 2 (3.64%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Principal Security Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Solutions Designer
7 2 (3.64%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.45%) Yocto
3 1 (1.82%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.82%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.82%) POSIX
3 1 (1.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Driving Licence
2 4 (7.27%) Fibre Optics
3 3 (5.45%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.45%) CCTV
3 3 (5.45%) Digital TV
3 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.45%) STB
4 2 (3.64%) IoT
4 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
2 3 (5.45%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (3.64%) OpenWrt
4 1 (1.82%) CentOS
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.64%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 11 (20.00%) Migration
3 9 (16.36%) Project Delivery
4 7 (12.73%) Load Balancing
5 6 (10.91%) ITIL
6 4 (7.27%) Agile
6 4 (7.27%) Mentoring
7 3 (5.45%) Backlog Management
7 3 (5.45%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 3 (5.45%) Burndown Charts
7 3 (5.45%) Coaching
7 3 (5.45%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (5.45%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (5.45%) Product Backlog
7 3 (5.45%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (5.45%) Roadmaps
7 3 (5.45%) Scrum
7 3 (5.45%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (5.45%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.45%) C
1 3 (5.45%) Python
2 1 (1.82%) C++
2 1 (1.82%) Go
2 1 (1.82%) Java
2 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (38.18%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (21.82%) CCIE
3 9 (16.36%) CCNA
3 9 (16.36%) Degree
4 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
5 5 (9.09%) CCIE Service Provider
5 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.64%) CCNP
7 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.64%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) ZABBIX
2 3 (5.45%) Nagios
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Graylog
3 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (38.18%) Cisco
2 14 (25.45%) BT
3 9 (16.36%) SolarWinds
4 6 (10.91%) Palo Alto
5 5 (9.09%) Nokia
6 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
6 4 (7.27%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.64%) Aruba
7 2 (3.64%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.64%) Juniper
7 2 (3.64%) Meraki
7 2 (3.64%) Openreach
7 2 (3.64%) Virgin Media
8 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.82%) Splunk
8 1 (1.82%) VMware