Wireless Contracts in Berkshire

Wireless
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wireless 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 82 116 65
Rank change year-on-year +34 -51 +31
Contract jobs citing Wireless 11 8 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.94% 0.40% 2.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.26% 1.63% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 22
10th Percentile £269 £345 £244
25th Percentile £297 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -32.73% +7.84% +25.93%
75th Percentile £442 £588 £570
90th Percentile £477 £595 £580
South East median daily rate £403 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +7.33% -6.25% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £36.68
25th Percentile - £24.25 £62.44
Median hourly rate £24.66 £24.50 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.65% -68.79% -
75th Percentile - £24.75 £80.44
90th Percentile - - £80.78
South East median hourly rate £14.20 £21.10 £61.13
% change year-on-year -32.69% -65.49% +88.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

Wireless 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%

Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Berkshire

Wireless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireless 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 Wireless 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
Reading +36 8 £288 - 12
Slough -6 1 - - 9
Wokingham - 1 £415 - 1
Wireless
South East

Wireless
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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) 802.11
2 3 (27.27%) VLAN
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
2 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (18.18%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security
3 2 (18.18%) SSL
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (9.09%) DMVPN
4 1 (9.09%) Internet
4 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (9.09%) IPsec
4 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) Wireless Security
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Wireless Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) HR Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Change Management
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
1 3 (27.27%) Data Collection
1 3 (27.27%) Network Design
2 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (18.18%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (9.09%) Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Application Security
3 1 (9.09%) Break/Fix
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
3 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (9.09%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (9.09%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM
3 1 (9.09%) Threat Detection
3 1 (9.09%) User Experience
3 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CASB
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Aruba
2 4 (36.36%) Juniper
3 3 (27.27%) AirMagnet
3 3 (27.27%) Ekahau
3 3 (27.27%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (27.27%) Meraki
4 1 (9.09%) Apple
4 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat
4 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.09%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) F5
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto