Starlink Contract Job Trends

Starlink
UK

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 564 649
Rank change year-on-year +13 +85 -
Contract jobs citing Starlink 7 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.013% 0.004%
As % of the Vendors category 0.045% 0.029% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £207 £178 -
25th Percentile £211 £183 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £200 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -63.64% -
75th Percentile £238 £219 -
90th Percentile - £226 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £200 £550
% change year-on-year +12.50% -63.64% -

All Vendors
UK

Starlink 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 15,513 17,031 22,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.13% 44.19% 44.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,498 10,278 14,586
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% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 797 693 649
10th Percentile £14.69 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% -27.06% +83.11%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -25.00% +100.00%

Starlink
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Starlink in the UK

Starlink
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Starlink
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Starlink within the UK over the 6 months to 13 September 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
England +21 7 £225 +12.50%
UK excluding London -4 7 £225 +12.50%
South West - 4 £225 -
East of England +6 3 £225 +12.50%

Starlink
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 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) Desktop Support
2 6 (85.71%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 6 (85.71%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) iPad
1 6 (85.71%) iPhone
1 6 (85.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Customer Service
2 6 (85.71%) Antivirus Management
2 6 (85.71%) Inventory Management
2 6 (85.71%) ITIL
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (85.71%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Chat Support
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (85.71%) McAfee