BT Contracts in the West Midlands

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England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 108 137
Rank change year-on-year +14 +29 +21
Contract jobs citing BT 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.15% 0.084%
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 0.36% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £551 £313 £438
% change year-on-year +76.16% -28.57% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £13.78 £13.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +3.85% -
75th Percentile - £13.88 £13.50
90th Percentile - £13.95 -
England median hourly rate £13.81 £14.63 £13.00
% change year-on-year -5.57% +12.50% -

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 628 841 1,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 46.69% 43.19% 49.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 538 735
10th Percentile £185 £250 £213
25th Percentile £320 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 53 29
10th Percentile £12.25 £11.07 £13.15
25th Percentile £14.86 £13.25 £15.10
Median hourly rate £18.51 £19.95 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +7.84% +7.06%
75th Percentile £29.25 £28.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £31.43 £55.00 £72.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing BT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for BT in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for BT in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for BT in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BT within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Staffordshire - 2 - - 1
Birmingham +15 1 - - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Broadband
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Games
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service Advisor
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform