Network Management Contracts in Berkshire

Network Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Network Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Network Management 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 90 120 106
Rank change year-on-year +30 -14 +17
Contract jobs citing Network Management 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.43% 0.10% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.11% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £314 - -
25th Percentile £332 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £371 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +43.75%
75th Percentile £419 - £588
90th Percentile £441 - -
South East median daily rate £490 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -24.62% +36.84% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
South East median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +73.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Network Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,098 1,761 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.37% 88.89% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 921 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £340
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 100 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.05 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.30 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +6.02% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Network Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Management in Berkshire

Network Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Network Management in Berkshire

Network Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Network Management in Berkshire

Network Management
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 Network Management 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 - 3 - - 2
Wokingham - 1 £438 -
Network Management
South East

Network Management
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 4 (80.00%) Ethernet
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 3 (60.00%) 2G
2 3 (60.00%) 3G
2 3 (60.00%) 4G
2 3 (60.00%) 5G
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) SDH
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Designer
1 3 (60.00%) IP Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (20.00%) QA Manager
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Network Design
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco