5G Contracts in Berkshire

5G
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring 5G skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 5G over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 61 72
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing 5G 20 63 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.71% 3.18% 2.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.57% 12.80% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 28
10th Percentile £362 £350 £280
25th Percentile £406 £389 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £481
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -9.09% +17.38%
75th Percentile £463 £519 £571
90th Percentile £549 £540 £591
South East median daily rate £404 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -7.71% +9.38% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £24.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year - -63.02% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

5G 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 209 492 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.82% 24.80% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 217 184
10th Percentile £270 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £310 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £590 £619 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 14
10th Percentile £19.73 £40.70 £19.65
25th Percentile £21.58 £76.99 £25.13
Median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%
75th Percentile £58.58 £87.46 £80.25
90th Percentile £78.93 £87.53 £81.26
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for 5G in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 5G in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for 5G in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 5G in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 5G in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 5G in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for 5G 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 5G within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 14 £450 -14.29% 1
Slough -5 2 - - 1
5G
South East

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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 (10.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (75.00%) Radio Access Network
2 13 (65.00%) 4G
3 11 (55.00%) 3G
4 8 (40.00%) 2G
5 7 (35.00%) LTE
6 5 (25.00%) Diameter Protocol
6 5 (25.00%) MPLS
6 5 (25.00%) VoLTE
7 4 (20.00%) Ethernet
7 4 (20.00%) Network Security
7 4 (20.00%) Wireshark
8 3 (15.00%) VoWiFi
9 2 (10.00%) 3GPP
9 2 (10.00%) DNS
9 2 (10.00%) GGSN
9 2 (10.00%) RANAP
9 2 (10.00%) SGSN
9 2 (10.00%) SIGTRAN
9 2 (10.00%) SMS
9 2 (10.00%) SS7
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 16 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Multimedia
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Designer
2 3 (15.00%) IP Designer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Design Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Radio Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Design Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Design Authority
3 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) IoT
1 2 (10.00%) NB-IoT
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Network Architecture
2 7 (35.00%) Network Design
3 4 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.00%) Network Management
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Agile
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Experience
5 2 (10.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (10.00%) Edge Computing
5 2 (10.00%) Network Optimisation
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (10.00%) Statistics
5 2 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Ericsson
2 2 (10.00%) Empirix
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) NetScout
2 2 (10.00%) Nokia
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Huawei