Unified Communications Contracts in Berkshire

Unified Communications
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Unified Communications skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unified Communications over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 120 108
Rank change year-on-year +31 -12 +17
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 4 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 0.20% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.91% 0.81% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £392 £326
25th Percentile - £416 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £470 £388
Median % change year-on-year - +21.29% -16.22%
75th Percentile - £511 £422
90th Percentile - £529 £439
South East median daily rate - £500 £481
% change year-on-year - +4.05% +16.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £19.93
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year - -27.62% +0.96%
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £30.56
90th Percentile - - £32.78
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £41.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -53.66% +56.19% +0.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

Unified Communications 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 209 492 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.82% 24.80% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 217 184
10th Percentile £270 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £310 £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 £590 £619 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +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 £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in Berkshire

Unified Communications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unified Communications in Berkshire

Unified Communications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unified Communications in Berkshire

Unified Communications
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 Unified Communications within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Wokingham - 2 - -
Reading +30 1 - - 1
Unified Communications
South East

Unified Communications
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VoIP
2 1 (25.00%) ADSL
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) DSL
2 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) IPsec
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) PPP
2 1 (25.00%) RIP
2 1 (25.00%) SNMP
2 1 (25.00%) TACACS
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Voice Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Communications Security
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Presales
2 1 (25.00%) Process Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) CCDP
2 1 (25.00%) CCIP
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ADVA
1 1 (25.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper