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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 518 518
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +31
Contract jobs citing Broadband 163 39 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.21% 1.04% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 16
10th Percentile £324 - £235
25th Percentile £450 £250 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £434 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -13.25% -6.32%
75th Percentile £537 £620 £630
90th Percentile £549 £638 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £434 £475
% change year-on-year +19.88% -8.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 1
10th Percentile - £13.80 -
25th Percentile £11.46 £13.81 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £14.69 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.32% -77.40% -6.54%
75th Percentile £28.00 £20.83 -
90th Percentile £55.45 £22.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.21 £13.81 -
% change year-on-year +2.90% - -

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 5,075 3,744 4,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.33% 11.54% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,953 2,307 2,642
10th Percentile £235 £228 £231
25th Percentile £385 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -5.43% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £610
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -9.30% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 196 260
10th Percentile £14.57 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.11 £43.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.95% -15.69% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.88 £64.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £74.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -38.49% -25.89% -0.26%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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
UK excluding London -5 137 £520 +19.88% 237
England -35 126 £520 +19.88% 300
Work from Home +17 90 £500 -19.35% 89
South East -13 61 £500 -19.35% 47
Scotland +17 35 - - 22
London -70 24 £525 +35.03% 96
North of England -58 16 £535 +120.62% 58
East of England -17 13 £352 +8.23% 47
North West - 13 £536 - 20
South West -43 10 - - 26
Midlands -51 3 - - 24
West Midlands -52 3 - - 18
Yorkshire -34 2 £475 +95.88% 20
North East - 1 - - 19

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 (3.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) CMS
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.68%) NUKE
2 5 (3.07%) Houdini
3 4 (2.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.84%) CINEMA 4D
4 3 (1.84%) DaVinci Resolve
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Workfront
2 1 (0.61%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.61%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.61%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.13%) AWS
1 10 (6.13%) Azure
2 7 (4.29%) Adobe Analytics
2 7 (4.29%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.68%) GCP
4 4 (2.45%) Copilot Studio
4 4 (2.45%) Figma
4 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.84%) SaaS
5 3 (1.84%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.23%) Datadog
6 2 (1.23%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.23%) iPaaS
6 2 (1.23%) Miro
6 2 (1.23%) Slack
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.61%) Contentsquare
7 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.50%) Wi-Fi
2 21 (12.88%) Firewall
3 20 (12.27%) WAN
4 18 (11.04%) Network Security
4 18 (11.04%) VPN
5 17 (10.43%) Wireless
6 15 (9.20%) LAN
7 13 (7.98%) Converged Networks
8 7 (4.29%) IPv4
9 6 (3.68%) 4G
9 6 (3.68%) 5G
9 6 (3.68%) DHCP
9 6 (3.68%) DNS
9 6 (3.68%) IPv6
9 6 (3.68%) SD-WAN
10 5 (3.07%) TCP/IP
11 4 (2.45%) Ethernet
11 4 (2.45%) IPsec
12 3 (1.84%) BGP
12 3 (1.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.29%) Power BI
2 5 (3.07%) Metadata
3 3 (1.84%) Big Data
3 3 (1.84%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.61%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (6.75%) JIRA
2 5 (3.07%) Git
2 5 (3.07%) GitLab
3 2 (1.23%) Postman
4 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.63%) Marketing
3 27 (16.56%) Telecoms
4 17 (10.43%) Finance
5 15 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (8.59%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (6.75%) Legal
8 7 (4.29%) Games
9 6 (3.68%) Advertising
10 5 (3.07%) Billing
11 4 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.45%) Retail
12 3 (1.84%) Law
12 3 (1.84%) Local Government
12 3 (1.84%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (18.40%) Lead
2 27 (16.56%) Senior
3 18 (11.04%) Network Engineer
4 17 (10.43%) Product Owner
5 10 (6.13%) Architect
6 9 (5.52%) Designer
6 9 (5.52%) Procurement Manager
7 8 (4.91%) Lead Generation Specialist
7 8 (4.91%) Senior Manager
7 8 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.29%) Analyst
8 7 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (3.07%) Developer
9 5 (3.07%) Network Designer
10 4 (2.45%) Broadband Engineer
10 4 (2.45%) Lead Generation Executive
10 4 (2.45%) Senior Designer
10 4 (2.45%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.36%) ATL
2 4 (2.45%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (2.45%) PyTorch
2 4 (2.45%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.23%) HTML
3 2 (1.23%) HTML5
3 2 (1.23%) Middleware
3 2 (1.23%) PySpark
3 2 (1.23%) REST
3 2 (1.23%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.61%) .NET
4 1 (0.61%) Kafka
4 1 (0.61%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (0.61%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.61%) OpenEmbedded
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.61%) Spring
4 1 (0.61%) Terraform
4 1 (0.61%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 80 (49.08%) Social Media
2 18 (11.04%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.29%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.68%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.07%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.45%) IoT
6 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.45%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (1.84%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.84%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.84%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (1.23%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.13%) Linux
2 5 (3.07%) Windows
3 4 (2.45%) VMS
4 2 (1.23%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.63%) AI
2 29 (17.79%) Roadmaps
2 29 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (16.56%) Analytics
4 26 (15.95%) Agile
5 25 (15.34%) Actionable Insight
5 25 (15.34%) Decision-Making
6 22 (13.50%) Coaching
6 22 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (12.88%) Customer Experience
8 20 (12.27%) Business Strategy
9 18 (11.04%) Machine Learning
9 18 (11.04%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (9.82%) Load Balancing
11 15 (9.20%) Digital Marketing
11 15 (9.20%) Lead Generation
12 13 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (7.36%) Personalization
14 11 (6.75%) Experimental Design
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.47%) Python
2 22 (13.50%) SQL
3 5 (3.07%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.45%) Apex Code
4 4 (2.45%) SOQL
5 2 (1.23%) C
5 2 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.61%) Bash
6 1 (0.61%) C#
6 1 (0.61%) Java
6 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (10.43%) CCNA
1 17 (10.43%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.36%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.84%) CCNP
5 2 (1.23%) GCFA
5 2 (1.23%) GCIA
5 2 (1.23%) GCIH
5 2 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.23%) OSCP
5 2 (1.23%) SANS
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.61%) CISA
6 1 (0.61%) Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.61%) NVQ Level 3
6 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.04%) QA
2 13 (7.98%) Actionable Recommendations
3 9 (5.52%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.07%) SLA
5 3 (1.84%) GDPR
6 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.23%) PMO
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.61%) ITGC
7 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) PERC
7 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Firmware
2 2 (1.23%) KVM
2 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.23%) vSphere
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.61%) Ansible
1 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
1 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (12.27%) Cisco
2 14 (8.59%) Adobe
3 9 (5.52%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.52%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.07%) Ariba
4 5 (3.07%) Databricks
4 5 (3.07%) Foundry
4 5 (3.07%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.07%) SAP
5 3 (1.84%) Infoblox
5 3 (1.84%) Juniper
5 3 (1.84%) Splunk
6 2 (1.23%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.23%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.23%) Google
6 2 (1.23%) Intel
6 2 (1.23%) Meraki
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle
6 2 (1.23%) Peplink
6 2 (1.23%) VMware