Keysight Contract Job Trends

Keysight
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Keysight products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Keysight over the 6 months leading up to 20 April 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 Keysight Technologies, Inc.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 - 582
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Keysight 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - 0.007%
As % of the Vendors category 0.005% - 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £650 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £54.75
Median hourly rate - - £59.50
75th Percentile - - £64.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £59.50

All Vendors
UK

Keysight 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 19,700 13,950 18,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.59% 47.38% 42.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,604 8,784 11,562
10th Percentile £313 £295 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -0.87% -1.33%
75th Percentile £600 £616 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 986 538 1,082
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.99 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £14.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.97 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% +24.29% -47.06%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.83 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £24.66 £21.46
% change year-on-year +7.46% +14.91% -44.26%

Keysight
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Keysight job vacancy trend in the UK

Keysight
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Keysight
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Keysight
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Keysight within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 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
London - 1 £700 -
England - 1 £700 - 4
Work from Home - 1 £700 - 1

Keysight
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) RF Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Design for Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (100.00%) DO-160
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) EMC