Ethernet Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Ethernet
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Ethernet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 100 102
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Ethernet 3 10 17
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.22% 0.62% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.28% 3.53% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 13
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £210
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +161.90% -61.20%
South East median daily rate £450 £506 £210
% change year-on-year -11.11% +141.07% -50.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.35
25th Percentile - - £17.38
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £25.13
90th Percentile - - £25.35
South East median hourly rate - £44.71 £32.50
% change year-on-year - +37.57% -27.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

Ethernet 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 234 283 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.36% 17.53% 26.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 125 259
10th Percentile £248 £239 £205
25th Percentile £306 £380 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £445
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +9.55% -3.52%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £600
90th Percentile £604 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -2.50% +6.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 19
10th Percentile £17.08 - £17.60
25th Percentile £18.31 £56.25 £24.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £57.50 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% -21.77% +219.57%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.75 £75.89
90th Percentile £82.13 - £83.61
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% +33.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Ethernet job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Ethernet

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Ethernet

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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 Ethernet within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 November 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 +14 1 - - 4
Wokingham - 1 £450 -
Ethernet
South East

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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 (33.33%) DWDM
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) SDH
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Fibre Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Nokia