Network Management Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Network Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Network Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 106 112
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing Network Management 2 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.17% 0.35% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.40% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £342 £483 £583
25th Percentile £346 £531 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -42.48% - +47.06%
75th Percentile £380 £638 £644
90th Percentile £388 - £648
South East median daily rate £413 £560 £520
% change year-on-year -26.25% +7.69% +12.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
South East median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -21.21%

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 1,077 1,488 1,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.35% 87.32% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 777 1,013
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 72 64
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.51 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £45.31 £48.18
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.55 £58.44
Median % change year-on-year -47.50% +5.31% +41.87%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.39 £72.08
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.32 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -63.85% +8.21% +70.14%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network Management

Network Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Network Management

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 20 September 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 +25 1 £340 -45.60% 1
Slough - 1 £379 -
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 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) FCAPS
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Systems Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia