Hybrid/Remote Starlink Contract Job Trends

Starlink
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 15 March 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 Starlink Services, LLC.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 302 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs citing Starlink 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.035% 0.019% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.074% 0.042% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £418 £505 -
25th Percentile £425 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £475 £538 -
90th Percentile £483 £545 -
UK median daily rate £225 £220 £475
% change year-on-year +2.27% -53.68% -

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,422 4,726 7,061
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 47.05% 45.76% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,432 3,046 4,344
10th Percentile £348 £315 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +0.97% -4.19%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £623
90th Percentile £716 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -3.75% +1.17% -3.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 95 238
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.00 £14.06
25th Percentile £22.63 £23.50 £19.28
Median hourly rate £53.00 £41.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.27% +5.81% -29.95%
75th Percentile £61.50 £67.50 £63.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £80.22
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -31.53%

Starlink
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Starlink and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Starlink job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Starlink
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Starlink.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Starlink

Starlink
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) IPsec
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) 5G
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) DMVPN
2 2 (50.00%) Junos
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) 3GPP
3 1 (25.00%) 4G
3 1 (25.00%) IGMP
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) LTE
3 1 (25.00%) Modbus
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) NGFW
3 1 (25.00%) VSAT
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) OSS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) OSS Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Change Control
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (25.00%) Network Design
1 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (25.00%) Runbook
1 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (25.00%) User Experience
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
1 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIE
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Micro Focus
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk