IOS XR Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Cisco IOS XR
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring IOS XR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IOS XR 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £538 - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £631 - -
90th Percentile £643 - -
South East median daily rate £600 - £638
% change year-on-year - - +30.10%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

IOS XR 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 246 201 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.58% 16.93% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 126 117
10th Percentile £313 £248 £281
25th Percentile £376 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £537 £608
90th Percentile £625 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 1 13
10th Percentile £16.01 - £56.25
25th Percentile £19.34 - £71.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £83.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% -34.13% +13.53%
75th Percentile £54.75 - £87.46
90th Percentile £69.70 - -
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £55.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -4.68% -4.10% -4.42%

IOS XR
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

IOS XR job vacancy trend in Berkshire

IOS XR
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IOS XR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing IOS XR

IOS XR
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 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (100.00%) Junos
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) NGFW
1 2 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) gRPC
1 2 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) JNCIE
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper