BT Contract Job Trends

BT
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of BT products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BT over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, 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 BT Group plc.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 536 502
Rank change year-on-year -94 -34 +75
Contract jobs citing BT 45 24 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.073% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.15% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 8
10th Percentile £183 £353 £251
25th Percentile £424 £421 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £503 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £523 £622 £731
90th Percentile £549 £650 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £503
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.48% +32.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 1
10th Percentile £15.58 £13.71 -
25th Percentile £17.53 £14.69 £14.06
Median hourly rate £32.38 £18.90 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +71.30% +29.23% -16.43%
75th Percentile £50.00 £20.75 £15.19
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £20.50 £14.63
% change year-on-year -14.63% +40.17% -16.43%

All Vendors
UK

BT 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,916 15,709 16,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.72% 47.71% 44.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,818 9,689 9,822
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £613 £625
90th Percentile £712 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,421 799 583
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.84 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.87 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.25 £25.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -24.24% -24.79%
75th Percentile £56.43 £38.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £21.35 £30.21
% change year-on-year +8.60% -29.33% -29.76%

BT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

BT job vacancy trend in the UK

BT
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

BT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BT over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BT in the UK

BT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

BT
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BT over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BT in the UK

BT
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BT within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 -100 36 £475 -9.52% 120
UK excluding London -75 28 £475 -1.04% 71
South East -57 13 £475 -1.04% 4
London -75 11 £185 -69.17% 44
East of England - 10 £425 - 6
Work from Home -64 7 £500 +12.04% 48
Scotland -24 3 £305 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
South West - 1 £469 - 17
North of England - 1 £475 - 18

BT
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 (13.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (2.22%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.89%) AWS
1 4 (8.89%) SaaS
2 1 (2.22%) Azure
2 1 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) WAN
2 6 (13.33%) 5G
2 6 (13.33%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (13.33%) LTE
2 6 (13.33%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (13.33%) VoLTE
2 6 (13.33%) VoWiFi
2 6 (13.33%) Wireshark
3 5 (11.11%) DHCP
3 5 (11.11%) DNS
3 5 (11.11%) Ethernet
3 5 (11.11%) Firewall
3 5 (11.11%) LAN
3 5 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 5 (11.11%) VLAN
3 5 (11.11%) VPN
3 5 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (8.89%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (4.44%) MPLS
5 2 (4.44%) PSTN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 17 (37.78%) Telecoms
2 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Marketing
3 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
1 5 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 4 (8.89%) Field Engineer
2 4 (8.89%) Network Field Engineer
3 3 (6.67%) Designer
3 3 (6.67%) Marketing Manager
4 2 (4.44%) Analyst
4 2 (4.44%) Architect
4 2 (4.44%) Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Lead
4 2 (4.44%) Network Designer
4 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.22%) Network Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.22%) Senior
5 1 (2.22%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms Manager
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.67%) AI Agents
2 3 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (6.67%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Linux
1 11 (24.44%) Unix
2 6 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) Agile
2 14 (31.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (26.67%) High Availability
4 11 (24.44%) ITIL
5 9 (20.00%) Analytics
5 9 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 9 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
5 9 (20.00%) Customer Experience
5 9 (20.00%) Data Analytics
6 8 (17.78%) Service Delivery
7 7 (15.56%) Change Control
8 5 (11.11%) Architectural Design
8 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
9 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (6.67%) Change Management
10 3 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
10 3 (6.67%) Marketing Strategy
10 3 (6.67%) Performance Metrics
10 3 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) BC Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) APMP
3 1 (2.22%) CCNA
3 1 (2.22%) CCNP
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) SLA
2 3 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Cisco
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) Ericsson
2 6 (13.33%) Huawei
2 6 (13.33%) Nokia
3 5 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
3 5 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 5 (11.11%) Commvault
3 5 (11.11%) Meraki
3 5 (11.11%) NetApp
3 5 (11.11%) Openreach
3 5 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 5 (11.11%) Veeam
3 5 (11.11%) VMware
3 5 (11.11%) Xerox
4 3 (6.67%) EMC
4 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.44%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) Ariba
6 1 (2.22%) OpenText