4G Contracts in Berkshire

4G
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring 4G skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 4G over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 75 80
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing 4G 7 35 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.61% 1.78% 1.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.61% 8.50% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 18
10th Percentile £378 £379 £280
25th Percentile £400 £450 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +21.21% -2.94%
75th Percentile £438 £540 £450
90th Percentile £460 £638 £519
South East median daily rate £375 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £25.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -23.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

4G 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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 194 412 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.88% 21.01% 20.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 157 183
10th Percentile £256 £229 £280
25th Percentile £350 £363 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £465
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +10.22% -0.34%
75th Percentile £540 £608 £600
90th Percentile £600 £630 £699
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 23 19
10th Percentile £30.73 £71.75 £17.60
25th Percentile £39.83 £79.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £83.77 £72.84
Median % change year-on-year -34.34% +15.01% +328.44%
75th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £78.62
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.53 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.82% -0.26% +125.49%

4G
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing 4G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for 4G in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 4G in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for 4G in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 4G in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for 4G in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 4G within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Reading +12 2 £420 -20.00% 7
4G
South East

4G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (28.57%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) 5G
1 6 (85.71%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (42.86%) 2G
2 3 (42.86%) 3G
2 3 (42.86%) DOCSIS
2 3 (42.86%) GPON
2 3 (42.86%) LTE
2 3 (42.86%) MPLS
2 3 (42.86%) VoIP
2 3 (42.86%) xDSL
3 2 (28.57%) Converged Networks
General
1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) OSS Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) OSS Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Radio Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Radio Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) TM Forum
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) eTOM
2 3 (42.86%) Fault Management
2 3 (42.86%) Inventory Management
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Improvement
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
2 2 (28.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) OASIS TOSCA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Ericsson
1 3 (42.86%) Huawei
1 3 (42.86%) Nokia
2 2 (28.57%) Amdocs
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) NetCracker