Broadband Contracts in Berkshire

Broadband
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 95 108
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 +17
Contract jobs citing Broadband 6 27 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 1.36% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.83% 5.56% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 3
10th Percentile - £327 £433
25th Percentile £465 £424 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -15.22% +21.05%
75th Percentile £495 £519 £594
90th Percentile £500 £598 £598
South East median daily rate £494 £488 £600
% change year-on-year +1.33% -18.75% +28.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 212 486 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.03% 24.53% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 216 180
10th Percentile £270 £205 £312
25th Percentile £363 £326 £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 £588 £620 £676
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +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 £54.88 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.32% +8.21% +146.51%

Broadband
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Broadband in Berkshire

Broadband
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Broadband in Berkshire

Broadband
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Broadband in Berkshire

Broadband
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 Broadband within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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 +34 6 £494 +4.22% 13
Broadband
South East

Broadband
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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
General
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Billing
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Legal
4 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum Master
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Scrum Master
2 2 (33.33%) Designer
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Management Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 3 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 3 (50.00%) Burndown Charts
1 3 (50.00%) Coaching
1 3 (50.00%) Kanban
1 3 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 3 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) BT
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Openreach
1 2 (33.33%) Virgin Media