Openreach Engineer Contracts

BT Openreach Engineer
UK

The median BT Openreach Engineer daily rate in the UK is £165, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Openreach Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £158 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 - -
75th Percentile £173 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £165 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,011 37,753 51,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 93.06% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,065 24,460 35,791
10th Percentile £285 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -0.28%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 2,320 1,548
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.69 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.24 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £43.81
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -5.26% +70.58%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.80
% change year-on-year -41.51% +8.04% +87.29%

Openreach Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Openreach Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Openreach Engineer in the UK

Openreach Engineer
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Openreach Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
East Midlands - 1 £165 -
Midlands - 1 £165 -
England - 1 £165 -
UK excluding London - 1 £165 -

Openreach Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 July 2025, Openreach Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Openreach Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) PSTN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (100.00%) Openreach

Openreach Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) PSTN
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Openreach