Broadband Contract Job Trends

Broadband
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Broadband skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 519 499
Rank change year-on-year +17 -20 +7
Contract jobs citing Broadband 188 37 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.69% 0.98% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 18
10th Percentile - £250 £220
25th Percentile £313 £313 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £418 £467
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -10.60% -6.60%
75th Percentile £525 £620 £612
90th Percentile £540 £638 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £353 £450 £275
% change year-on-year -21.56% +63.64% -43.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 1
10th Percentile £11.46 £13.41 -
25th Percentile £13.45 £14.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.17 £14.69 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -77.40% -15.64%
75th Percentile £16.73 £21.04 -
90th Percentile £32.58 £23.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.45 £20.83 -
% change year-on-year -35.43% - -

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 5,091 3,766 4,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.21% 11.35% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,938 2,405 2,598
10th Percentile £236 £213 £225
25th Percentile £390 £356 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £677 £679 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 186 179
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £15.09
25th Percentile £19.50 £20.04 £25.38
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -29.98% -14.04%
75th Percentile £67.49 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.46 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.07 £41.72 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.51% -24.15% -4.21%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Broadband relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Broadband job vacancy trend in the UK

Broadband
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Broadband.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Broadband

Broadband
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Broadband over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Broadband.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Broadband

Broadband
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Broadband over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Top 14 Contract Job 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 14 October 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
England +5 161 £450 - 182
UK excluding London +22 159 £353 -21.56% 109
Work from Home +22 102 £500 +4.17% 73
South East -4 68 £500 -19.35% 18
East of England +4 33 £325 - 16
London -79 27 £525 -25.00% 82
Scotland +1 25 - - 12
North of England -56 19 £535 +120.62% 32
North West - 13 £536 - 23
South West -24 11 - - 12
Yorkshire -32 5 £475 +95.88% 9
West Midlands -47 4 £400 +0.95% 12
Midlands -58 4 £400 +6.67% 14
North East - 1 - - 2

Broadband
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (3.19%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) Apache
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.53%) CMS
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.19%) NUKE
2 5 (2.66%) Houdini
3 4 (2.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.60%) CINEMA 4D
4 3 (1.60%) DaVinci Resolve
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Workfront
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.53%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.53%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 12 (6.38%) AWS
1 12 (6.38%) Azure
2 8 (4.26%) GCP
3 7 (3.72%) Adobe Analytics
3 7 (3.72%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.13%) Copilot Studio
4 4 (2.13%) Figma
4 4 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (1.60%) SaaS
5 3 (1.60%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.06%) Datadog
6 2 (1.06%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.06%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.06%) iPaaS
6 2 (1.06%) Miro
6 2 (1.06%) Slack
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.53%) Contentsquare
7 1 (0.53%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 40 (21.28%) Wi-Fi
2 21 (11.17%) Firewall
2 21 (11.17%) WAN
2 21 (11.17%) Wireless
3 18 (9.57%) VPN
4 17 (9.04%) IPv4
5 16 (8.51%) IPv6
6 15 (7.98%) LAN
6 15 (7.98%) Network Security
7 13 (6.91%) Converged Networks
8 12 (6.38%) 4G
8 12 (6.38%) 5G
9 10 (5.32%) TCP/IP
10 9 (4.79%) xDSL
11 8 (4.26%) PPP
11 8 (4.26%) UPnP
12 7 (3.72%) DHCP
12 7 (3.72%) DNS
12 7 (3.72%) SD-WAN
12 7 (3.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.72%) Power BI
2 5 (2.66%) Metadata
3 3 (1.60%) Big Data
3 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.53%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (11.17%) JIRA
2 15 (7.98%) Git
2 15 (7.98%) GitLab
3 2 (1.06%) Postman
3 2 (1.06%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (28.72%) Telecoms
2 50 (26.60%) Social Skills
3 36 (19.15%) Marketing
4 19 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.11%) Finance
5 15 (7.98%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (6.38%) Legal
7 7 (3.72%) Advertising
7 7 (3.72%) Billing
7 7 (3.72%) Games
7 7 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.13%) Retail
9 3 (1.60%) Law
9 3 (1.60%) Local Government
9 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (15.43%) Senior
2 22 (11.70%) Lead
3 18 (9.57%) Network Engineer
3 18 (9.57%) Product Owner
4 17 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (7.98%) Broadband Engineer
6 14 (7.45%) Test Engineer
7 11 (5.85%) Architect
8 9 (4.79%) Analyst
8 9 (4.79%) Procurement Manager
8 9 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.26%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.72%) QA Engineer
10 7 (3.72%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) Designer
11 6 (3.19%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (2.66%) Customer Engineer
12 5 (2.66%) Developer
12 5 (2.66%) Technical Engineer
13 4 (2.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.38%) ATL
2 4 (2.13%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (2.13%) PyTorch
2 4 (2.13%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.06%) HTML
3 2 (1.06%) HTML5
3 2 (1.06%) Kafka
3 2 (1.06%) Middleware
3 2 (1.06%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (1.06%) PySpark
3 2 (1.06%) REST
3 2 (1.06%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.53%) .NET
4 1 (0.53%) Node.js
4 1 (0.53%) OpenEmbedded
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.53%) RESTful
4 1 (0.53%) Spring
4 1 (0.53%) Terraform
4 1 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (48.40%) Social Media
2 19 (10.11%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.26%) Wiki
4 7 (3.72%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.19%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.66%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.66%) IoT
6 5 (2.66%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.66%) Replication
7 4 (2.13%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.13%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.64%) Linux
2 9 (4.79%) VMS
3 5 (2.66%) Windows
4 2 (1.06%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.53%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (19.68%) AI
2 33 (17.55%) Agile
3 32 (17.02%) Analytics
3 32 (17.02%) Roadmaps
4 30 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (14.89%) Decision-Making
5 28 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.36%) Actionable Insight
6 27 (14.36%) Test Automation
7 23 (12.23%) Customer Experience
8 22 (11.70%) Business Strategy
9 20 (10.64%) Machine Learning
9 20 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (8.51%) B2B
12 15 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (7.98%) Digital Marketing
13 14 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (7.45%) Scrum
13 14 (7.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 49 (26.06%) Python
2 26 (13.83%) SQL
3 5 (2.66%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.13%) Apex Code
4 4 (2.13%) SOQL
5 2 (1.06%) C
5 2 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.53%) Bash
6 1 (0.53%) C#
6 1 (0.53%) Java
6 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (9.57%) CCNA
1 18 (9.57%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (7.98%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.60%) CCNP
5 2 (1.06%) Degree
5 2 (1.06%) GCFA
5 2 (1.06%) GCIA
5 2 (1.06%) GCIH
5 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (1.06%) OSCP
5 2 (1.06%) SANS
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.53%) CISA
6 1 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.53%) NVQ Level 3
6 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.43%) QA
2 13 (6.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 11 (5.85%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.66%) SLA
5 4 (2.13%) GDPR
6 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.06%) PMO
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.53%) ITGC
7 1 (0.53%) NIST
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) PERC
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (5.32%) Docker
2 7 (3.72%) Firmware
3 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.06%) KVM
4 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.06%) vSphere
5 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.53%) Ansible
1 1 (0.53%) Kubeflow
1 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (11.17%) Cisco
2 14 (7.45%) Adobe
3 12 (6.38%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.85%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.66%) Ariba
5 5 (2.66%) Databricks
5 5 (2.66%) Foundry
5 5 (2.66%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.66%) SAP
6 4 (2.13%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.60%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.60%) Google
7 3 (1.60%) Infoblox
7 3 (1.60%) Juniper
7 3 (1.60%) Splunk
8 2 (1.06%) Intel
8 2 (1.06%) Meraki
8 2 (1.06%) Optimizely
8 2 (1.06%) Oracle
8 2 (1.06%) VMware