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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 100 93
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 +24
Contract jobs citing Nokia 6 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 0.77% 1.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.89% 1.50% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 12
10th Percentile £363 £481 £313
25th Percentile £364 £500 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £625 £411
Median % change year-on-year -37.68% +51.98% -5.35%
75th Percentile £413 £638 £438
90th Percentile £435 £667 £449
South East median daily rate £390 £505 £423
% change year-on-year -22.87% +19.53% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £25.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £25.00

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 672 865 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 57.29% 50.97% 51.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 472 565
10th Percentile £293 £314 £231
25th Percentile £413 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +5.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 28
10th Percentile £14.44 £15.30 £18.00
25th Percentile £14.75 £27.50 £41.75
Median hourly rate £19.81 £58.49 £58.03
Median % change year-on-year -66.13% +0.79% -5.64%
75th Percentile £32.12 £61.60 £66.77
90th Percentile £39.98 £75.17 £73.21
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.35 £51.96
% change year-on-year -65.13% +10.37% +159.80%

Nokia
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Nokia 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

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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 17 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 +16 2 £450 -28.00%
Slough - 1 £379 -
Nokia
South East

Nokia
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) 4G
1 3 (50.00%) 5G
1 3 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (33.33%) DOCSIS
2 2 (33.33%) GPON
2 2 (33.33%) LTE
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) VoIP
2 2 (33.33%) xDSL
3 1 (16.67%) 2G
3 1 (16.67%) 3G
3 1 (16.67%) Converged Networks
3 1 (16.67%) DWDM
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (16.67%) FCAPS
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) OSS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Fibre Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Radio Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Radio Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) TM Forum
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) eTOM
1 2 (33.33%) Fault Management
1 2 (33.33%) Inventory Management
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 2 (33.33%) Microservices
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Service Design
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) OASIS TOSCA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Amdocs OSS
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Ericsson
1 3 (50.00%) Huawei
2 2 (33.33%) Amdocs
2 2 (33.33%) NetCracker
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Cramer
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft