Telecoms Contracts in Berkshire

Telecommunications
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Telecoms over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 9 3
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 198 258 342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.40% 13.11% 18.90%
As % of the General category 28.53% 24.09% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 80 164
10th Percentile £350 £262 £301
25th Percentile £407 £369 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £448 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% +5.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £500
90th Percentile £700 £553 £579
South East median daily rate £495 £448 £413
% change year-on-year +10.49% +8.61% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile - £22.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.75 £27.94 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.50 £40.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.96% +114.47% -26.92%
75th Percentile £62.24 £56.44 £23.00
90th Percentile - £63.83 £25.50
South East median hourly rate £15.50 £45.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -65.56% +125.00% -23.08%

All General Skills
Berkshire

Telecoms falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 694 1,071 1,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 60.98% 54.42% 60.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 511 628
10th Percentile £303 £213 £325
25th Percentile £409 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -1.48% +5.73%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 93 30
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £17.15
25th Percentile £27.63 £42.00 £19.88
Median hourly rate £49.50 £58.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% +67.11% +57.41%
75th Percentile £77.19 £70.18 £66.21
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -57.78% -10.00% +150.00%

Telecoms
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Telecoms in Berkshire

Telecoms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Telecoms in Berkshire

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telecoms in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telecoms in Berkshire

Telecoms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Telecoms in Berkshire

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Telecoms in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Telecoms in Berkshire

Telecoms
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 Telecoms within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 June 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 +3 123 £538 +19.44% 56
Slough +4 20 £450 +21.13% 37
Wokingham - 1 £415 - 2
Maidenhead - 1 - - 5
Telecoms
South East

Telecoms
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 11 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.53%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.02%) Camunda
4 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.03%) Oracle Assets
1 6 (3.03%) Oracle EBS R12
1 6 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
1 6 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.51%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.12%) Azure
2 14 (7.07%) AWS
3 13 (6.57%) SaaS
4 11 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.55%) GCP
6 6 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.53%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.52%) dbt
9 3 (1.52%) GitHub
10 2 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.01%) Figma
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.01%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.51%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (0.51%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.51%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.51%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.60%) MPLS
1 19 (9.60%) SAN
2 18 (9.09%) LTE
2 18 (9.09%) WAN
3 17 (8.59%) Wireshark
4 16 (8.08%) LAN
4 16 (8.08%) VPN
5 15 (7.58%) ATM
5 15 (7.58%) Ethernet
5 15 (7.58%) Frame Relay
5 15 (7.58%) GPRS
5 15 (7.58%) GSM
5 15 (7.58%) SDH
5 15 (7.58%) UMTS
6 13 (6.57%) Radio Access Network
7 10 (5.05%) 5G
8 7 (3.54%) 4G
8 7 (3.54%) Firewall
9 6 (3.03%) BGP
9 6 (3.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.04%) Power BI
2 4 (2.02%) Big Data
2 4 (2.02%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.52%) Power Query
3 3 (1.52%) Tableau
4 2 (1.01%) Metadata
4 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.51%) MySQL
5 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.51%) Redis
5 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Git
1 5 (2.53%) JIRA
2 4 (2.02%) Selenium
3 2 (1.01%) GitLab
3 2 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.01%) Vite
4 1 (0.51%) ERwin
4 1 (0.51%) Subversion
4 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 49 (24.75%) Finance
3 31 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 27 (13.64%) Marketing
5 26 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (13.13%) Electronics
5 26 (13.13%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.56%) Billing
7 10 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.53%) Legal
10 3 (1.52%) French Language
10 3 (1.52%) Law
11 2 (1.01%) Military
11 2 (1.01%) Publishing
12 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (20.20%) Architect
2 21 (10.61%) Active Directory Architect
3 19 (9.60%) Analyst
4 18 (9.09%) Test Engineer
5 15 (7.58%) Senior
6 14 (7.07%) Developer
6 14 (7.07%) IP Engineer
6 14 (7.07%) Network Engineer
7 7 (3.54%) Business Analyst
7 7 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (3.54%) Consultant
7 7 (3.54%) Designer
7 7 (3.54%) Project Manager
7 7 (3.54%) Solutions Designer
8 6 (3.03%) Support Engineer
9 5 (2.53%) Information Security Specialist
9 5 (2.53%) Security Specialist
9 5 (2.53%) Senior Security Specialist
9 5 (2.53%) Telecoms Analyst
9 5 (2.53%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.05%) REST
2 8 (4.04%) Web Services
3 6 (3.03%) CSS
3 6 (3.03%) HTML
4 5 (2.53%) JSON
4 5 (2.53%) React
4 5 (2.53%) RFC 2544
5 4 (2.02%) Kafka
6 3 (1.52%) Ajax
6 3 (1.52%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.52%) SOAP
6 3 (1.52%) XML
7 2 (1.01%) Framer.js
7 2 (1.01%) YAML
8 1 (0.51%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.51%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.51%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.51%) Node.js
8 1 (0.51%) PySpark
8 1 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.10%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (8.08%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.05%) TM Forum
4 7 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.53%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.53%) Frameworx
6 4 (2.02%) CMDB
6 4 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.52%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.01%) CSOC
9 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.51%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.51%) PMI
9 1 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.51%) Tandem
9 1 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.64%) Windows
2 20 (10.10%) Linux
3 17 (8.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.74%) Agile
2 36 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 33 (16.67%) Project Management
4 32 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (14.14%) Programme Management
6 26 (13.13%) Digital Marketing
7 24 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 21 (10.61%) Identity Access Management
10 19 (9.60%) Fault Management
10 19 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (9.09%) Test Strategy
12 17 (8.59%) CI/CD
13 16 (8.08%) DevOps
13 16 (8.08%) Project Delivery
14 15 (7.58%) Artificial Intelligence
14 15 (7.58%) ITIL
14 15 (7.58%) Regression Testing
15 14 (7.07%) Customer Experience
15 14 (7.07%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.63%) PowerShell
2 20 (10.10%) Python
3 15 (7.58%) Java
4 13 (6.57%) SQL
5 9 (4.55%) Bash
6 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.52%) VBA
7 1 (0.51%) C#
7 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (17.17%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.63%) DV Cleared
3 16 (8.08%) CCNP
3 16 (8.08%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (7.58%) ISEB
4 15 (7.58%) ISTQB
4 15 (7.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 12 (6.06%) Degree
6 10 (5.05%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.54%) CISM
8 6 (3.03%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.53%) APMP
9 5 (2.53%) PMP
10 4 (2.02%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.52%) CISSP
11 3 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (1.01%) ACCA
12 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.01%) CIMA
13 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.04%) SLA
2 7 (3.54%) QA
3 6 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.53%) P3O
5 3 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.01%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.01%) NCSC
6 2 (1.01%) OASIS TOSCA
6 2 (1.01%) PMO
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) GDPR
7 1 (0.51%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (10.61%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.53%) vSphere
3 4 (2.02%) Ceph
4 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.51%) Docker
5 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.04%) Ansible
3 5 (2.53%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (1.01%) Argo
5 1 (0.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.51%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.51%) NSN NetAct
5 1 (0.51%) QRadar
Vendors
1 40 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.66%) SAP
3 29 (14.65%) Cisco
4 17 (8.59%) Juniper
5 15 (7.58%) Virgin Media
6 12 (6.06%) Databricks
7 10 (5.05%) Remedy
7 10 (5.05%) ServiceNow
8 9 (4.55%) Oracle
8 9 (4.55%) Salesforce
9 8 (4.04%) BT
10 6 (3.03%) BMC
11 5 (2.53%) IFS
12 4 (2.02%) Dell
12 4 (2.02%) Nokia
13 3 (1.52%) Cramer
13 3 (1.52%) Ericsson
13 3 (1.52%) Huawei
13 3 (1.52%) Openreach
13 3 (1.52%) Splunk