BT Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of BT products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BT over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within BT Group plc.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 134 642
Rank change year-on-year -371 +508 -16
Permanent jobs citing BT 128 846 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 2.50% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.73% 6.07% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 37 515 42
10th Percentile - £23,504 £33,500
25th Percentile - - £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £25,087 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -47.19% +15.92%
75th Percentile £27,835 £32,851 £70,291
90th Percentile £52,250 - £128,750
UK median annual salary £25,087 £25,087 £41,920
% change year-on-year - -40.16% +2.31%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

BT falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,427 13,926 22,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.24% 41.22% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,287 7,367 15,313
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +2.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £68,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%

BT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

BT job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

BT
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BT

BT
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for BT in the UK excluding London

BT
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 July 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -179 79 £25,087 - 3
Yorkshire -73 43 £25,087 - 1
Wales -92 21 £25,087 - 1
North East -97 21 £25,087 -
North West -90 15 £25,087 - 2
South East -40 9 £40,750 +24.04% 6
Midlands -41 8 £31,000 +14.95% 1
West Midlands -22 7 £31,000 +14.81%
Scotland -124 7 - - 1
South West -68 4 - - 1
East Midlands -23 1 - - 1
BT
UK

BT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.56%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.56%) GitHub
1 2 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 119 (92.97%) Broadband
2 6 (4.69%) Unified Communications
3 4 (3.13%) DSLAM
3 4 (3.13%) VoIP
4 2 (1.56%) HTTP
4 2 (1.56%) RTP
4 2 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Git
General
1 43 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.31%) Banking
3 20 (15.63%) Games
4 15 (11.72%) Telecoms
5 9 (7.03%) Retail
6 5 (3.91%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.34%) Finance
7 3 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Marketing
8 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (17.97%) Customer Service Advisor
2 11 (8.59%) Sales Representative
3 6 (4.69%) Customer Service Representative
4 4 (3.13%) Cabling Engineer
4 4 (3.13%) Data Engineer
4 4 (3.13%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (2.34%) Technical Advisor
6 2 (1.56%) Account Manager
6 2 (1.56%) Developer
6 2 (1.56%) Python Developer
6 2 (1.56%) Sales Executive
6 2 (1.56%) Senior
6 2 (1.56%) Senior Account Manager
6 2 (1.56%) Senior Manager
7 1 (0.78%) Business Development Manager
7 1 (0.78%) Development Manager
7 1 (0.78%) Fibre Engineer
7 1 (0.78%) Installations Engineer
7 1 (0.78%) Network Engineer
7 1 (0.78%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.56%) Django
1 2 (1.56%) Flask
1 2 (1.56%) FreeSWITCH
1 2 (1.56%) Jinja
1 2 (1.56%) OAuth
1 2 (1.56%) OAuth2
1 2 (1.56%) pytest
1 2 (1.56%) REST
1 2 (1.56%) RFC 2833
1 2 (1.56%) SQLAlchemy
1 2 (1.56%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 31 (24.22%) Smart Home
2 7 (5.47%) Fibre Optics
3 6 (4.69%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.56%) IoT
4 2 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.56%) Linux
1 2 (1.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (32.03%) Customer Service
2 25 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (5.47%) CRM
3 7 (5.47%) Decision-Making
4 5 (3.91%) Business Development
4 5 (3.91%) Customer Acquisition
5 4 (3.13%) AI
5 4 (3.13%) OCR
6 3 (2.34%) Coaching
6 3 (2.34%) Customer Experience
7 2 (1.56%) B2B
7 2 (1.56%) Business Transformation
7 2 (1.56%) CI/CD
7 2 (1.56%) Containerisation
7 2 (1.56%) Data Protection
7 2 (1.56%) OO
7 2 (1.56%) OOP
7 2 (1.56%) Open Source
7 2 (1.56%) Sentiment Analysis
7 2 (1.56%) Telesales
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.56%) C
1 2 (1.56%) C++
1 2 (1.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (3.13%) DBS Check
1 4 (3.13%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.34%) GDPR
2 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.56%) Docker
1 2 (1.56%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 2 (1.56%) Argo
1 2 (1.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (4.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.13%) Fortinet
2 4 (3.13%) Mitel
3 3 (2.34%) TOWER Software
4 2 (1.56%) Openreach
5 1 (0.78%) MikroTik