Fibre Optics Contracts in Berkshire

Fibre Optics
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fibre Optics in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fibre Optics over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 101 113
Rank change year-on-year +20 +12 +24
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Fibre Optics 12 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 0.59% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.79% 2.09% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 2
10th Percentile £245 £155 £481
25th Percentile £260 £163 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £350 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -37.78% +32.35%
75th Percentile £298 - £609
90th Percentile £300 - £634
South East median daily rate £290 £175 £563
% change year-on-year +65.71% -68.89% +50.25%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Fibre Optics falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 430 479 580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.41% 28.29% 33.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 255 384
10th Percentile £300 £258 £300
25th Percentile £400 £416 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £514
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +8.03% +2.75%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £660 £694 £720
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 22
10th Percentile £32.05 £11.87 £18.75
25th Percentile £44.63 £19.72 £40.47
Median hourly rate £62.00 £41.50 £64.09
Median % change year-on-year +49.39% -35.24% +4.21%
75th Percentile £87.44 £60.44 £73.19
90th Percentile £88.87 £69.93 £74.23
South East median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £51.42
% change year-on-year -40.92% +11.53% +126.82%

Fibre Optics
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Fibre Optics in Berkshire

Fibre Optics
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Fibre Optics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Fibre Optics

Fibre Optics
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Fibre Optics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Fibre Optics

Fibre Optics
DemandTrendContract 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 Fibre Optics within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +20 2 £225 -35.71% 3
Fibre Optics
South East

Fibre Optics
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:

Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) LAN
2 2 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 7 (58.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Test Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Network Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Test Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 10 (83.33%) Case Management
2 10 (83.33%) Defect Management
2 10 (83.33%) Service Management
3 7 (58.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Network Design
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Test Management
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CCNA
2 2 (16.67%) CCNP
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) HP