Nokia Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Nokia
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Nokia products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Nokia over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Nokia Corporation.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 89 91
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing Nokia 8 20 26
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.62% 1.25% 1.45%
As % of the Vendors category 0.99% 2.49% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 16
10th Percentile £363 £473 £313
25th Percentile £364 £488 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £520 £380
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% +36.84% -15.93%
75th Percentile £413 £638 £408
90th Percentile £435 £657 £438
South East median daily rate £400 £505 £380
% change year-on-year -20.79% +32.89% -14.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.55
25th Percentile £19.00 - £24.63
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile £21.00 - £25.38
90th Percentile - - £25.45
South East median hourly rate £20.00 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%

All Vendors
Berkshire

Nokia falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 807 804 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.17% 50.34% 53.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 456 565
10th Percentile £293 £330 £208
25th Percentile £425 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -1.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £656 £700 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 26 35
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.50 £18.68
25th Percentile £14.75 £22.13 £45.21
Median hourly rate £20.75 £58.17 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -64.33% -5.85% +21.16%
75th Percentile £38.42 £61.47 £68.63
90th Percentile £59.00 £64.28 £76.63
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £58.05 £45.21
% change year-on-year -65.54% +28.39% +97.25%

Nokia
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Nokia job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Nokia
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Nokia

Nokia
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Nokia

Nokia
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 Nokia within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +6 4 £450 -21.40% 1
Slough - 1 £379 - 1
Nokia
South East

Nokia
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Camunda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DWDM
2 3 (37.50%) 5G
2 3 (37.50%) MPLS
2 3 (37.50%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (37.50%) SDH
3 2 (25.00%) 4G
3 2 (25.00%) DOCSIS
3 2 (25.00%) GPON
3 2 (25.00%) LTE
3 2 (25.00%) VoIP
3 2 (25.00%) xDSL
4 1 (12.50%) Converged Networks
4 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
4 1 (12.50%) FCAPS
4 1 (12.50%) LAN
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) NGN
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (87.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) OSS Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Fibre Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Systems Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Transmission Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) TM Forum
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (25.00%) AI
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) ArchiMate
2 2 (25.00%) Boundary Protection
2 2 (25.00%) BPMN
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) eTOM
2 2 (25.00%) Fault Management
2 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (12.50%) BC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) OASIS TOSCA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) Juniper
2 2 (25.00%) Amdocs
2 2 (25.00%) Cramer
2 2 (25.00%) Ericsson
2 2 (25.00%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) Huawei
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) NetCracker
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Ciena