Broadband Contracts

Broadband
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Broadband skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Broadband over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 537 586
Rank change year-on-year +102 +49 +82
Contract jobs citing Broadband 93 47 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.50% 0.87% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 66
10th Percentile £250 £263 £344
25th Percentile £313 £275 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £448 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% -16.65% +4.67%
75th Percentile £510 £556 £600
90th Percentile £588 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £295 £475
% change year-on-year +65.08% -37.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 6
10th Percentile £13.79 £12.28 £38.01
25th Percentile - £15.02 £62.06
Median hourly rate £13.81 £26.00 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.88% -61.34% +146.79%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £14.69 £46.88 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.81 £20.53 £49.51
% change year-on-year -32.74% -58.53% +350.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Broadband 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 requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,725 5,422 7,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.41% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,260 3,210 4,570
10th Percentile £220 £210 £244
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -3.66% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 417 445
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.30 £10.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +110.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -36.84% +150.00% -11.63%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Broadband.

Daily rate trend for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Broadband over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Broadband.

Hourly rate trend for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Broadband over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Broadband in the UK

Broadband
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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
UK excluding London +111 74 £487 +65.08% 434
Work from Home +90 57 £500 +69.49% 340
England +72 49 £495 +10.49% 512
Scotland +41 40 - - 10
London +44 18 £500 -6.98% 202
Midlands +29 13 £165 - 33
East Midlands +16 11 £165 - 17
North of England +17 7 £550 +86.44% 133
South East +45 6 £494 +4.00% 133
South West +36 6 £250 -15.25% 38
North West +9 6 £575 +94.92% 38
Wales +3 3 - - 36
West Midlands +9 2 - - 16
East of England +25 1 £325 +51.16% 55
Yorkshire +16 1 £220 +10.00% 48

Broadband
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 1 (1.08%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (1.08%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.15%) AWS
2 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
2 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (1.08%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (1.08%) Azure
2 1 (1.08%) GitHub
2 1 (1.08%) SaaS
2 1 (1.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.35%) BGP
1 18 (19.35%) OSPF
2 15 (16.13%) MPLS
2 15 (16.13%) VPN
3 11 (11.83%) Firewall
3 11 (11.83%) IPv6
4 10 (10.75%) Cisco Firepower
5 8 (8.60%) LAN
5 8 (8.60%) Multicast
5 8 (8.60%) WAN
6 6 (6.45%) HSRP
6 6 (6.45%) IPsec
7 5 (5.38%) GPON
7 5 (5.38%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.30%) Network Security
8 4 (4.30%) Wireless
9 3 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (3.23%) Converged Networks
9 3 (3.23%) LTE
9 3 (3.23%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (55.91%) Social Skills
2 44 (47.31%) Finance
2 44 (47.31%) General Ledger
3 10 (10.75%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.15%) Banking
4 2 (2.15%) Billing
4 2 (2.15%) Games
5 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (49.46%) Senior
2 44 (47.31%) Analyst
2 44 (47.31%) Financial Analyst
2 44 (47.31%) Senior Analyst
2 44 (47.31%) Senior Financial Analyst
3 19 (20.43%) Network Engineer
4 12 (12.90%) Principal Engineer
5 11 (11.83%) Principal Network Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Implementation Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Coordinator
7 4 (4.30%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (3.23%) Scrum Master
9 2 (2.15%) Broadband Engineer
9 2 (2.15%) Customer Service Advisor
9 2 (2.15%) Designer
9 2 (2.15%) Principal Security Engineer
9 2 (2.15%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.15%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.08%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (47.31%) Social Media
2 12 (12.90%) Driving Licence
3 5 (5.38%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.08%) CCTV
6 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.08%) CentOS
1 1 (1.08%) Linux
1 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (49.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (47.31%) Accounts Payable
2 44 (47.31%) Procure-to-Pay
2 44 (47.31%) Root Cause Analysis
3 12 (12.90%) Customer Experience
3 12 (12.90%) Network Monitoring
4 11 (11.83%) Migration
5 9 (9.68%) Project Delivery
6 6 (6.45%) ITIL
7 5 (5.38%) Roadmaps
8 4 (4.30%) Agile
8 4 (4.30%) Mentoring
9 3 (3.23%) Coaching
9 3 (3.23%) Computer Science
9 3 (3.23%) Kanban
9 3 (3.23%) Load Balancing
9 3 (3.23%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (3.23%) Product Roadmap
9 3 (3.23%) Scrum
9 3 (3.23%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.15%) Python
2 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (47.31%) ACCA
1 44 (47.31%) CIMA
2 18 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (12.90%) CCIE
4 9 (9.68%) Degree
5 6 (6.45%) CCNA
6 5 (5.38%) CCIE Service Provider
7 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
8 3 (3.23%) CCNP
8 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.23%) JNCIA
8 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) SLA
2 1 (1.08%) GDPR
2 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.45%) ZABBIX
2 3 (3.23%) Nagios
3 1 (1.08%) Ansible
3 1 (1.08%) Graylog
3 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (47.31%) SAP
2 18 (19.35%) Cisco
3 16 (17.20%) BT
4 9 (9.68%) SolarWinds
5 6 (6.45%) Palo Alto
6 5 (5.38%) Nokia
7 3 (3.23%) Aruba
7 3 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.23%) Juniper
7 3 (3.23%) Meraki
7 3 (3.23%) Openreach
8 2 (2.15%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.15%) Virgin Media
9 1 (1.08%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.08%) Pega
9 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.08%) VMware
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