Ciena Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Ciena
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Ciena products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ciena over the 6 months leading up to 9 December 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 the Ciena Corporation.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 109 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Ciena 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.14% 0.19% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.22% 0.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £443 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £445 £525 £200
% change year-on-year -15.24% +162.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £20.00 - £31.25

All Vendors
Berkshire

Ciena 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 892 791 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.68% 49.44% 53.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 494 569
10th Percentile £293 £334 £205
25th Percentile £420 £450 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.55% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 15 38
10th Percentile £14.50 £19.00 £24.45
25th Percentile £15.13 £27.63 £54.94
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £62.40
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% -9.06% +47.68%
75th Percentile £70.25 £61.25 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.32 £75.51
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £42.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -51.08% -22.02% +121.77%

Ciena
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Ciena job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Ciena
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Ciena

Ciena
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 Ciena within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 December 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 +13 1 £445 -15.24% 2
Ciena
South East

Ciena
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 (50.00%) 5G
1 1 (50.00%) DWDM
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) NGN
1 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (50.00%) SDH
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) OSS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Transmission Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Spectrum Management
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cramer
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow