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 16 August 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
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 509 616
Rank change year-on-year -6 +107 +75
Contract jobs citing BT 36 60 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.085%
As % of the Vendors category 0.23% 0.35% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 22
10th Percentile £275 £175 -
25th Percentile £383 £200 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £530 £381
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +39.02% -25.61%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £538
90th Percentile £650 £850 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £371 £255
% change year-on-year +29.38% +45.49% -40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 3
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.02 £13.25
25th Percentile - £14.06 £14.38
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.63 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -16.43% -2.78%
75th Percentile £20.75 £15.19 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.81 £14.63 £17.50
% change year-on-year -5.57% -16.43% -2.78%

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 15,695 16,966 23,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 43.75% 44.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,568 10,590 15,046
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 839 658
10th Percentile £14.40 £13.68 £15.15
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £39.58
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% -29.25% +77.87%
75th Percentile £47.12 £61.52 £62.38
90th Percentile £67.60 £70.00 £73.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -9.84% +53.96%

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 16 August 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

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Top 10 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 16 August 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 -10 29 £480 +29.38% 44
England -20 26 £525 -0.94% 61
Midlands +1 12 £525 - 5
Work from Home +8 11 £480 - 21
South East +13 10 £488 +31.40% 7
East Midlands - 8 - - 1
Wales - 6 £300 - 2
London +7 4 £600 +12.94% 24
West Midlands -2 4 £525 - 3
Scotland - 1 £250 - 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) Gunicorn
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud9 IDE
2 2 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (38.89%) Broadband
2 3 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (5.56%) Internet
3 2 (5.56%) VoIP
3 2 (5.56%) VPN
4 1 (2.78%) LAN
4 1 (2.78%) MPLS
4 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.78%) WAN
4 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
General
1 12 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Billing
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Games
4 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.78%) Digital Economy
5 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Data Centre Operator
2 5 (13.89%) IT Support
3 4 (11.11%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Incident Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Principal Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Principal Software Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Software Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Customer Service Advisor
5 2 (5.56%) Designer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Solutions Designer
5 2 (5.56%) Voice Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Lead
6 1 (2.78%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Site Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Celery
1 2 (5.56%) Flask
1 2 (5.56%) Jinja
1 2 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
1 2 (5.56%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Driving Licence
2 6 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Customer Experience
2 9 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (16.67%) Batch Scheduling
5 5 (13.89%) BCP
5 5 (13.89%) Business Continuity
5 5 (13.89%) Business Continuity Planning
6 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (8.33%) Backlog Management
7 3 (8.33%) DevOps
7 3 (8.33%) Escalation Management
7 3 (8.33%) Incident Management
7 3 (8.33%) ITIL
7 3 (8.33%) Microservices
7 3 (8.33%) Software Engineering
8 2 (5.56%) Customer Service
8 2 (5.56%) Data Integration
8 2 (5.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) Bash
2 1 (2.78%) JCL
2 1 (2.78%) Korn
2 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
1 1 (2.78%) MRICS
1 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Control-M
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) BMC
1 5 (13.89%) Remedy
2 3 (8.33%) Openreach
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Virgin Media
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco
3 2 (5.56%) Citrix
3 2 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) CenturyLink
4 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.78%) TP-LINK
4 1 (2.78%) Xerox