Fibre Optics Contracts in the Thames Valley

Fibre Optics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fibre Optics in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fibre Optics 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 101 139 141
Rank change year-on-year +38 +2 +21
Contract jobs citing Fibre Optics 1 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.066% 0.22% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.75% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 10
10th Percentile - - £295
25th Percentile - £173 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £175 £434
Median % change year-on-year - -59.70% +1.15%
75th Percentile - £178 £497
90th Percentile - £194 £515
South East median daily rate £440 £515 £450
% change year-on-year -14.56% +14.44% +108.09%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Fibre Optics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Fibre Optics in the Thames Valley

Fibre Optics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fibre Optics in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Fibre Optics in the Thames Valley

Fibre Optics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fibre Optics in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Fibre Optics in the Thames Valley

Fibre Optics
Contract 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 Fibre Optics within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +30 1 - - 9
Fibre Optics
South East

Fibre Optics
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Network Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) HP