Aruba Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Aruba
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Aruba products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aruba over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, 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 Aruba Networks.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 102 109
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Aruba 11 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.89% 0.55% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 1.46% 1.09% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile - £495 £485
25th Percentile £488 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.24% +6.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £513 - £575
90th Percentile - £592 -
South East median daily rate £488 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -9.30% +7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.60 - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Vendors
Berkshire

Aruba 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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 754 827 942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 60.76% 50.52% 53.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 460 574
10th Percentile £292 £330 £213
25th Percentile £413 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £657 £715 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £508
% change year-on-year -2.91% +1.38% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 32 34
10th Percentile - £14.90 £20.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £24.88 £48.26
Median hourly rate £20.77 £58.30 £62.40
Median % change year-on-year -64.37% -6.56% +17.73%
75th Percentile £38.42 £61.60 £68.63
90th Percentile £54.25 £65.66 £76.72
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.25 £51.96
% change year-on-year -65.07% +10.18% +136.18%

Aruba
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Aruba relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Aruba job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Aruba
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Aruba.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Aruba

Aruba
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Aruba.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Aruba

Aruba
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 Aruba within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 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 +34 11 £500 -14.24% 6
Aruba
South East

Aruba
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) VLAN
General
1 9 (81.82%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Consultant
1 9 (81.82%) Network Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Network Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Migration Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Migration
2 9 (81.82%) Roadmaps
3 8 (72.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (45.45%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (27.27%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) F5
2 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
2 1 (9.09%) HP
2 1 (9.09%) Juniper