Hybrid/Remote Structured Cabling Contract Job Trends

Structured Cabling
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Structured Cabling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 314 376
Rank change year-on-year +15 +62 +202
Contract jobs citing Structured Cabling 7 2 21
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.070% 0.017% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 0.16% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 15
10th Percentile - - £300
25th Percentile £205 - £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £350 £743
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -52.89% +74.82%
75th Percentile £215 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £225 £285 £388
% change year-on-year -21.05% -26.55% +27.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £44.11 - -
25th Percentile £44.28 - -
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £50.00
75th Percentile £48.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £27.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.82% -45.00% +283.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Structured Cabling falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,060 1,280 2,439
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.66% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 774 1,592
10th Percentile £293 £314 £300
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £683 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 29 87
10th Percentile £23.58 £35.80 £18.02
25th Percentile £42.06 £37.50 £20.66
Median hourly rate £63.50 £48.56 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +1.17% -15.12%
75th Percentile £65.06 £67.02 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £75.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -28.42% -13.64% +30.95%

Structured Cabling
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Structured Cabling job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Structured Cabling
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Structured Cabling
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Structured Cabling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Structured Cabling

Structured Cabling
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) AutoCAD
1 4 (57.14%) Navisworks
1 4 (57.14%) Revit
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Communications Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Communications Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (28.57%) Smart Home
3 1 (14.29%) ASIC
3 1 (14.29%) FPGA
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Building Information Modelling
1 4 (57.14%) Digital Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Information Management
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) System Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Change Control
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Control
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Electronic Design Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Licensing
4 1 (14.29%) Tech Ops
4 1 (14.29%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (57.14%) Chartered Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 4 (57.14%) RIBA
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) MCSA
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) Terminal Services
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Symantec
1 1 (14.29%) Veeam
1 1 (14.29%) VMware