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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 106 83
Rank change year-on-year +20 -23 -3
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Wireless 9 4 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.76% 0.24% 1.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.81% 1.33% 6.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 22
10th Percentile £233 - £214
25th Percentile £281 £233 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £235 £490
Median % change year-on-year +54.26% -52.04% +19.51%
75th Percentile £444 £238 £759
90th Percentile £493 - £875
South East median daily rate £316 £300 £350
% change year-on-year +5.42% -14.29% -7.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.05
25th Percentile - - £16.63
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £22.63
90th Percentile - - £24.35
South East median hourly rate £43.10 £22.40 £16.00
% change year-on-year +92.41% +40.00% -30.43%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 187 301 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.85% 17.79% 22.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 123 207
10th Percentile £293 £245 £205
25th Percentile £371 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -1.68%
75th Percentile £541 £608 £584
90th Percentile £600 £632 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £459
% change year-on-year - +8.93% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 17
10th Percentile £58.25 £56.25 £16.70
25th Percentile £63.13 £71.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £83.50 £72.84
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% +14.64% +273.51%
75th Percentile £83.13 £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile £88.75 - £76.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +31.63%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Wireless.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Wireless

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wireless in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Wireless.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Wireless

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DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +30 8 £525 +123.40% 12
Maidenhead - 1 £200 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) LAN
1 4 (44.44%) WAN
1 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (33.33%) 802.11
2 3 (33.33%) BGP
2 3 (33.33%) MPLS
2 3 (33.33%) OSPF
2 3 (33.33%) SNMP
2 3 (33.33%) TACACS
2 3 (33.33%) VLAN
3 2 (22.22%) 5G
4 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Designer
1 3 (33.33%) IP Designer
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
1 3 (33.33%) Wireless Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 3 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 3 (33.33%) Network Design
2 3 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Project Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 3 (33.33%) CCIE
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) JNCIE
3 2 (22.22%) PMI Certification
3 2 (22.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
1 6 (66.67%) Juniper
2 3 (33.33%) AirMagnet
2 3 (33.33%) Aruba
2 3 (33.33%) Ekahau
2 3 (33.33%) Extreme Networks
2 3 (33.33%) F5
2 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 3 (33.33%) Meraki
2 3 (33.33%) VMware