Openreach Contracts

Openreach
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Openreach products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Openreach over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, 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 Openreach.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 680 831
Rank change year-on-year +110 +151 -121
Contract jobs citing Openreach 14 17 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.031% 0.020%
As % of the Vendors category 0.076% 0.070% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 13
10th Percentile - £305 £171
25th Percentile £503 £353 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £708 £400 £270
Median % change year-on-year +76.88% +48.15% -16.92%
75th Percentile £950 £438 £438
90th Percentile - £500 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £708 £413 £210
% change year-on-year +71.52% +96.43% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £13.03 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% - -
75th Percentile £13.81 £15.97 -
90th Percentile £13.93 £17.44 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.03 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +0.25% - -

All Vendors
UK

Openreach 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,504 24,201 35,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.37% 43.57% 40.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,474 16,134 23,582
10th Percentile £270 £270 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,161 635 848
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.08 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.06 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%

Openreach
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Openreach in the UK

Openreach
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Openreach in the UK

Openreach
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Openreach over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Openreach in the UK

Openreach
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Openreach in the UK

Openreach
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Openreach within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
England +86 14 £708 +77.99% 15
UK excluding London +30 12 £708 +71.52% 9
Midlands +19 4 - - 2
South East +17 4 £515 +11.35% 5
South West +3 4 £900 +339.02% 1
Work from Home +114 3 - - 2
West Midlands +18 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 - -
London +77 1 - - 6

Openreach
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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Internet
1 4 (28.57%) PSTN
2 2 (14.29%) ADSL
2 2 (14.29%) Broadband
2 2 (14.29%) Ethernet
2 2 (14.29%) ISDN
2 2 (14.29%) MPLS
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 7 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Coordinator
1 2 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Project Coordinator
1 2 (14.29%) Telecoms Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Lead
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Technician
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) CCTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) Budget Management
2 2 (14.29%) Business Case
2 2 (14.29%) Change Control
2 2 (14.29%) Change Management
2 2 (14.29%) Contract Management
2 2 (14.29%) Data Entry
2 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 2 (14.29%) Order Management
2 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) Project Governance
2 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery Management
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Identification
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) Supplier Relationship Management
2 2 (14.29%) Time Management
2 2 (14.29%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) BC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) BT
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) Virgin Media