Wireless Contracts in Reading

Wireless
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 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 52 92 65
Rank change year-on-year +40 -27 -6
Contract jobs citing Wireless 7 3 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.29% 0.25% 2.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.94% 1.27% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 15
10th Percentile £334 - £198
25th Percentile £366 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £520
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.83%
75th Percentile £478 - £800
90th Percentile £506 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £370 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +34.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 64 236 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 11.83% 19.34% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 105 95
10th Percentile £205 £205 £288
25th Percentile £378 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £650
90th Percentile £569 £638 £737
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -12.20% +7.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 5
10th Percentile - £77.22 -
25th Percentile - - £66.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.46 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.11% +16.61% +188.46%
75th Percentile - £87.53 £76.99
90th Percentile - - £79.62
Berkshire median hourly rate £55.00 £83.77 £73.92
% change year-on-year -34.34% +13.32% +334.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Wireless in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Wireless in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Wireless in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Wireless in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) 802.11
1 3 (42.86%) VLAN
1 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (28.57%) 5G
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless Security
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Wireless Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Data Collection
2 3 (42.86%) Network Design
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Project Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) PMI Certification
2 2 (28.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Aruba
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) AirMagnet
2 3 (42.86%) Ekahau
2 3 (42.86%) Extreme Networks
2 3 (42.86%) Juniper
2 3 (42.86%) Meraki
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto