BT Contracts

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 30 April 2025, 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 508 659
Rank change year-on-year +26 +151 +36
Contract jobs citing BT 37 92 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.21% 0.090%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.50% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 33 41
10th Percentile £413 £158 -
25th Percentile £476 £200 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £361 £450
Median % change year-on-year +47.51% -19.78% -3.49%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £527
90th Percentile £650 £688 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £205 £450
% change year-on-year +137.80% -54.44% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 2
10th Percentile £13.78 £14.02 -
25th Percentile - £14.06 £12.50
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.63 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% +12.50% +10.36%
75th Percentile - £15.19 £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.81 £14.63 £13.00
% change year-on-year -5.57% +12.50% +10.36%

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 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

BT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BT in the UK

BT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BT in the UK

BT
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for BT in the UK

BT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BT in the UK

BT
Top 9 Contract 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 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
UK excluding London +23 28 £488 +137.80% 74
England +8 28 £551 +69.38% 89
Work from Home +34 15 £453 +174.24% 36
Midlands +34 13 - - 5
South East +34 10 £488 -14.92% 18
East Midlands - 10 - - 1
London +15 5 £600 +12.94% 27
Scotland - 5 £471 - 2
West Midlands +16 3 - - 4

BT
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:

Applications
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) AWS
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud9 IDE
2 2 (5.41%) GCP
3 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (37.84%) Broadband
2 4 (10.81%) WAN
3 3 (8.11%) 4G
3 3 (8.11%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.41%) Internet
4 2 (5.41%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (5.41%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (5.41%) VPN
4 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.70%) LAN
5 1 (2.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 9 (24.32%) Telecoms
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Banking
3 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (10.81%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Billing
5 2 (5.41%) Games
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Analyst
2 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
2 4 (10.81%) Senior
3 3 (8.11%) Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Incident Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Senior Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Customer Service Advisor
4 2 (5.41%) Designer
4 2 (5.41%) Network Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Principal Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Principal Software Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Software Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (5.41%) Voice Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) WAN Project Manager
5 1 (2.70%) Senior Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.70%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Customer Experience
2 6 (16.22%) ITIL
2 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (8.11%) Backlog Management
4 3 (8.11%) Change Management
4 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
4 3 (8.11%) Escalation Management
4 3 (8.11%) Incident Management
4 3 (8.11%) Line Management
4 3 (8.11%) PRINCE2
4 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (5.41%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (5.41%) Customer Service
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Event-Driven
5 2 (5.41%) Microservices
5 2 (5.41%) Performance Testing
5 2 (5.41%) Project Management
5 2 (5.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) Python
2 1 (2.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Ansible
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) BMC
1 4 (10.81%) Remedy
2 3 (8.11%) Openreach
2 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.11%) Virgin Media
3 2 (5.41%) Citrix
3 2 (5.41%) Snow
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) HP
4 1 (2.70%) TP-LINK