Fibre Optics Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Fibre Optics
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fibre Optics in contract job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fibre Optics over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Fibre Optics 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £489 £285 £515
% change year-on-year +71.49% -44.66% +30.88%

All Generic Skills
Buckinghamshire

Fibre Optics falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 219 73 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 25.35% 29.55% 27.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 48 86
10th Percentile £372 £297 £183
25th Percentile £450 £375 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £464
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +7.82% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £570
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
South East median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 17
10th Percentile - £13.25 £17.64
25th Percentile - £15.13 £22.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% -39.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile - £24.50 £28.75
90th Percentile - £47.90 £39.00
South East median hourly rate £63.00 £33.89 £52.00
% change year-on-year +85.92% -34.84% -0.95%

Fibre Optics
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fibre Optics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Fibre Optics job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Fibre Optics
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Fibre Optics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Fibre Optics

Fibre Optics
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Fibre Optics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Fibre Optics

Fibre Optics
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fibre Optics within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 22 June 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 1 £520 - 3
Fibre Optics
South East

Fibre Optics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) CATAPAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Becrypt
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware