Ethernet Contracts in the Thames Valley

Ethernet
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Ethernet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ethernet 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 99 116 122
Rank change year-on-year +17 +6 +44
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Ethernet 14 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.84% 0.44% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.69% 2.68% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 8
10th Percentile £405 £400 -
25th Percentile - £461 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £256
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +97.07% -36.34%
75th Percentile - £578 £346
90th Percentile - £637 £350
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £210
% change year-on-year -10.00% +138.10% -48.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £15.35
25th Percentile - £18.50 £17.38
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £19.00
75th Percentile - £19.50 £21.00
90th Percentile - - £23.70
South East median hourly rate - £57.35 £31.25
% change year-on-year - +83.52% -30.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

Ethernet 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 the Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 246 373 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.84% 16.53% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 182 307
10th Percentile £294 £265 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +4.05% +0.64%
75th Percentile £543 £608 £600
90th Percentile £600 £638 £654
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £459
% change year-on-year - +8.93% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 18
10th Percentile - £42.78 £17.15
25th Percentile £14.20 £65.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.90 £73.50 £69.42
Median % change year-on-year -70.20% +5.87% +333.86%
75th Percentile £89.63 £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile - - £76.37
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +31.63%

Ethernet
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Ethernet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet in the Thames Valley

Ethernet
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ethernet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ethernet

Ethernet
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet in the Thames Valley

Ethernet
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ethernet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ethernet

Ethernet
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +21 14 £450 -16.28% 8
Ethernet
South East

Ethernet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) MPLS
1 13 (92.86%) WAN
2 12 (85.71%) SDH
3 11 (78.57%) ATM
3 11 (78.57%) Frame Relay
3 11 (78.57%) GPRS
3 11 (78.57%) GSM
3 11 (78.57%) LAN
3 11 (78.57%) LTE
3 11 (78.57%) SAN
3 11 (78.57%) UMTS
3 11 (78.57%) VPN
3 11 (78.57%) Wireshark
4 2 (14.29%) Firewall
5 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
General
1 13 (92.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (78.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) IP Engineer
2 9 (64.29%) Test Engineer
3 6 (42.86%) Network Engineer
4 5 (35.71%) IP Network Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) IP Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) IP Network Consultant
5 2 (14.29%) Network Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
1 11 (78.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (78.57%) Fault Management
2 11 (78.57%) Project Management
2 11 (78.57%) Regression Testing
2 11 (78.57%) Test Strategy
3 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 2 (14.29%) Product Requirements
3 2 (14.29%) Service Design
4 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
4 1 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) CCNP
1 13 (92.86%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (78.57%) ISEB
2 11 (78.57%) ISTQB
2 11 (78.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Cisco
2 12 (85.71%) Microsoft
3 11 (78.57%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Google