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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 542 583
Rank change year-on-year +80 +41 +92
Contract jobs citing Broadband 92 47 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.28% 0.90% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 56
10th Percentile £250 £250 £344
25th Percentile £263 £274 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £400 £505
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -20.79% -0.25%
75th Percentile £503 £534 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £323 £475
% change year-on-year +48.84% -32.11% +0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 5
10th Percentile £13.80 - £33.31
25th Percentile - £12.28 £62.25
Median hourly rate £13.81 £28.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.54% -59.29% +169.23%
75th Percentile £14.69 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £21.00 £50.50 £80.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.81 £20.53 £49.51
% change year-on-year -32.74% -58.53% +350.11%

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 4,030 5,202 7,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.27% 12.46% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,100 4,567
10th Percentile £235 £213 £231
25th Percentile £375 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £594 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 395 315
10th Percentile £14.93 £13.50 £10.63
25th Percentile £20.93 £16.58 £16.19
Median hourly rate £46.25 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -11.11% +55.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £72.95 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.45 £45.88 £57.17
% change year-on-year -9.66% -19.74% +148.54%

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 20 July 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 20 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Top 15 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 20 July 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
UK excluding London +100 79 £480 +48.84% 181
Work from Home +66 58 £500 +69.49% 43
England +53 48 £494 +23.50% 210
Scotland +37 40 - - 27
Midlands +8 15 £308 - 18
London +29 12 £500 -14.53% 62
East Midlands +11 12 £165 - 2
South East +36 10 £495 +4.11% 54
South West +40 6 £250 -15.25% 12
North of England +1 6 £525 +77.97% 56
Wales +7 3 - - 4
West Midlands +6 3 £450 - 15
North West +4 3 £525 +77.97% 13
Yorkshire - 3 £275 - 40
East of England +5 1 £325 +51.16% 9

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 (1.09%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (1.09%) CMS
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.17%) AWS
2 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (1.09%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (1.09%) Azure
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.09%) OneDrive
2 1 (1.09%) SaaS
2 1 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.87%) BGP
1 10 (10.87%) OSPF
2 9 (9.78%) Firewall
2 9 (9.78%) MPLS
3 8 (8.70%) VPN
4 6 (6.52%) IPv6
4 6 (6.52%) Multicast
4 6 (6.52%) TCP/IP
5 5 (5.43%) LAN
5 5 (5.43%) WAN
6 4 (4.35%) GPON
6 4 (4.35%) Wireless
7 3 (3.26%) HSRP
7 3 (3.26%) Internet
7 3 (3.26%) IPsec
7 3 (3.26%) LTE
7 3 (3.26%) SD-WAN
7 3 (3.26%) WLAN
8 2 (2.17%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (2.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
General
1 58 (63.04%) Social Skills
2 45 (48.91%) Finance
3 44 (47.83%) General Ledger
4 19 (20.65%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.26%) Retail
6 2 (2.17%) Banking
6 2 (2.17%) Billing
6 2 (2.17%) Games
6 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (50.00%) Analyst
2 45 (48.91%) Senior
3 44 (47.83%) Financial Analyst
3 44 (47.83%) Senior Analyst
3 44 (47.83%) Senior Financial Analyst
4 10 (10.87%) Network Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) Principal Network Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Coordinator
7 4 (4.35%) Implementation Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (3.26%) Change and Release Manager
8 3 (3.26%) Change Manager
8 3 (3.26%) Release Manager
8 3 (3.26%) Scrum Master
9 2 (2.17%) Principal Security Engineer
9 2 (2.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.17%) GraphQL
1 2 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.09%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (47.83%) Social Media
2 12 (13.04%) Driving Licence
3 5 (5.43%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.09%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Windows
2 1 (1.09%) Android
2 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (53.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (48.91%) Root Cause Analysis
3 44 (47.83%) Accounts Payable
3 44 (47.83%) Procure-to-Pay
4 12 (13.04%) Customer Experience
5 9 (9.78%) ITIL
5 9 (9.78%) Migration
6 7 (7.61%) Agile
6 7 (7.61%) Network Monitoring
7 6 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (5.43%) Project Delivery
8 5 (5.43%) Roadmaps
9 4 (4.35%) Change Management
9 4 (4.35%) Coaching
9 4 (4.35%) Computer Science
10 3 (3.26%) CRM
10 3 (3.26%) Kanban
10 3 (3.26%) Release Management
10 3 (3.26%) Test Automation
10 3 (3.26%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.09%) Python
1 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (47.83%) ACCA
1 44 (47.83%) CIMA
2 12 (13.04%) Degree
3 10 (10.87%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (6.52%) CCIE
5 4 (4.35%) CCIE Service Provider
5 4 (4.35%) CCNA
5 4 (4.35%) CCNP
6 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.26%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.09%) HNC
7 1 (1.09%) HND
7 1 (1.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) GDPR
2 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.35%) ZABBIX
2 2 (2.17%) Nagios
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 44 (47.83%) SAP
2 16 (17.39%) BT
3 9 (9.78%) Cisco
4 6 (6.52%) SolarWinds
5 4 (4.35%) Nokia
6 3 (3.26%) Aruba
6 3 (3.26%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.26%) Juniper
6 3 (3.26%) Meraki
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.26%) Openreach
6 3 (3.26%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.17%) Oracle
7 2 (2.17%) Virgin Media
8 1 (1.09%) BMC
8 1 (1.09%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.09%) Pega
8 1 (1.09%) Toshiba
8 1 (1.09%) VMware