Radio Access Network Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Radio Access Network (RAN)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Radio Access Network skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 81 82
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 -23
Contract jobs citing Radio Access Network 5 33 33
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.41% 2.01% 1.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.34% 11.07% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 15
10th Percentile £370 £482 £313
25th Percentile £381 £505 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £520 £423
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.08% +5.63%
75th Percentile £410 £540 £430
90th Percentile £416 £598 £441
South East median daily rate £400 £520 £388
% change year-on-year -23.00% +34.06% -3.13%
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 Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

Radio Access Network 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 214 298 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.54% 18.17% 24.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 133 238
10th Percentile £219 £250 £205
25th Percentile £313 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £448
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.73% -2.72%
75th Percentile £536 £608 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 17
10th Percentile £17.08 £33.60 £16.70
25th Percentile £18.31 £56.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £57.50 £73.60
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% -21.88% +227.11%
75th Percentile £64.69 £75.24 £76.10
90th Percentile £82.13 £82.57 £84.11
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +33.33%

Radio Access Network
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Radio Access Network job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Radio Access Network
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Radio Access Network

Radio Access Network
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Radio Access Network

Radio Access Network
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 Radio Access Network within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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 2 £420 -19.23%
Radio Access Network
South East

Radio Access Network
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 (40.00%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) 5G
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 3 (60.00%) 4G
2 3 (60.00%) DOCSIS
2 3 (60.00%) GPON
2 3 (60.00%) LTE
2 3 (60.00%) VoIP
2 3 (60.00%) xDSL
3 2 (40.00%) Converged Networks
4 1 (20.00%) DWDM
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) NGN
4 1 (20.00%) SDH
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) OSS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Transmission Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) TM Forum
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) eTOM
2 3 (60.00%) Fault Management
2 3 (60.00%) Inventory Management
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (20.00%) Network Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Process Management
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (40.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) MCP
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) OASIS TOSCA
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Amdocs OSS
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Nokia
2 2 (40.00%) Amdocs
2 2 (40.00%) Ericsson
2 2 (40.00%) Huawei
2 2 (40.00%) NetCracker
3 1 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) Ciena
3 1 (20.00%) Cramer
3 1 (20.00%) Remedy