SDH Contracts in Berkshire

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring SDH skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SDH 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 77 117 102
Rank change year-on-year +40 -15 +22
Contract jobs citing SDH 18 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.53% 0.25% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.49% 1.03% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £383 - £266
25th Percentile £442 - £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £394
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.73%
75th Percentile - - £415
90th Percentile £452 - £519
South East median daily rate £450 - £450
% change year-on-year - - +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.00
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £24.25
90th Percentile - - £25.00
South East median hourly rate - £30.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

SDH 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 212 486 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.03% 24.53% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 216 180
10th Percentile £270 £205 £312
25th Percentile £363 £326 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £588 £620 £676
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 14
10th Percentile £19.73 £40.70 £19.65
25th Percentile £21.58 £76.99 £25.13
Median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%
75th Percentile £58.58 £87.46 £80.25
90th Percentile £78.93 £87.53 £81.26
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.32% +8.21% +146.51%

SDH
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SDH in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SDH in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDH in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SDH in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SDH in Berkshire

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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 SDH 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
Slough - 16 £450 -
Wokingham - 2 £438 -
SDH
South East

SDH
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 18 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 18 (100.00%) MPLS
2 16 (88.89%) ATM
2 16 (88.89%) Frame Relay
2 16 (88.89%) GPRS
2 16 (88.89%) GSM
2 16 (88.89%) LAN
2 16 (88.89%) LTE
2 16 (88.89%) SAN
2 16 (88.89%) UMTS
2 16 (88.89%) VPN
2 16 (88.89%) WAN
2 16 (88.89%) Wireshark
General
1 16 (88.89%) Social Skills
1 16 (88.89%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) IP Engineer
2 14 (77.78%) Test Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) IP Network Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) IP Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) IP Network Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Network Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Network Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (88.89%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Linux
1 16 (88.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Fault Management
1 16 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
1 16 (88.89%) Project Management
1 16 (88.89%) Regression Testing
1 16 (88.89%) Test Strategy
2 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL
2 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.56%) Budget Management
3 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
3 1 (5.56%) Network Management
3 1 (5.56%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) CCNP
1 18 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (88.89%) ISEB
2 16 (88.89%) ISTQB
2 16 (88.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CCNA
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Cisco
1 16 (88.89%) Juniper
1 16 (88.89%) Microsoft