5G
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for 5G skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 5G over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 561 587
Rank change year-on-year +142 +26 -78
Contract jobs citing 5G 155 140 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.87% 1.98% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 77 113
10th Percentile £355 £228 £300
25th Percentile £420 £320 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -4.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £538
90th Percentile £590 £606 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £428 £433
% change year-on-year +10.53% -1.27% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile £24.78 £52.86 £59.80
25th Percentile £25.56 £60.25 £60.25
Median hourly rate £40.50 £68.75 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.09% +9.13% +40.00%
75th Percentile £61.09 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £67.56 £71.80 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £66.25 -
% change year-on-year -60.75% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

5G is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,394 7,082 9,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 12.40% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,571 6,235
10th Percentile £205 £235 £232
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 464 368
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -8.99%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 5G.

Daily rate trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 5G over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 5G in the UK

5G
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 5G.

Hourly rate trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 5G over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for 5G in the UK

5G
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
England +107 139 £475 +5.56% 71
UK excluding London +74 112 £473 +10.53% 61
South East +9 46 £500 +21.21% 25
Work from Home +105 43 £483 +20.63% 36
London +102 34 £490 -2.00% 13
East of England +31 24 £450 +50.00% 13
North of England +33 19 £365 -24.90% 9
Scotland +55 9 £585 - 4
South West +14 8 £600 +50.00% 5
North East - 8 - - 3
North West +20 7 £365 -23.44% 1
Midlands +32 6 - - 4
West Midlands +19 6 - - 4
Yorkshire +23 4 - - 5

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (4.52%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.23%) ArcGIS
2 5 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.58%) Power Platform
2 3 (1.94%) Smartsheet
3 1 (0.65%) AWS
3 1 (0.65%) Azure
3 1 (0.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 81 (52.26%) 4G
2 51 (32.90%) Radio Access Network
3 35 (22.58%) 3G
4 24 (15.48%) LTE
5 20 (12.90%) Network Security
6 17 (10.97%) Firewall
7 16 (10.32%) Wireless
8 13 (8.39%) 2G
9 12 (7.74%) Diameter Protocol
9 12 (7.74%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (7.10%) BGP
10 11 (7.10%) VPN
10 11 (7.10%) Wireshark
11 10 (6.45%) DNS
12 9 (5.81%) MPLS
13 8 (5.16%) 5G NR
13 8 (5.16%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 8 (5.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 8 (5.16%) VoLTE
14 7 (4.52%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.23%) GIS
1 5 (3.23%) QGIS
2 4 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.58%) MySQL
2 4 (2.58%) Power BI
2 4 (2.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (16.13%) Git
2 18 (11.61%) JIRA
3 16 (10.32%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.23%) Postman
5 4 (2.58%) gcov
5 4 (2.58%) GDB
5 4 (2.58%) Gradle
5 4 (2.58%) Subversion
6 3 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.94%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.94%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 74 (47.74%) Telecoms
2 40 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.39%) Finance
4 11 (7.10%) Multimedia
5 6 (3.87%) Law
5 6 (3.87%) Legal
5 6 (3.87%) Marketing
5 6 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.94%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.94%) Military
9 2 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.65%) Automotive
10 1 (0.65%) Local Government
10 1 (0.65%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 21 (13.55%) Lead
2 19 (12.26%) Network Engineer
3 13 (8.39%) Design Engineer
3 13 (8.39%) Developer
4 12 (7.74%) Consultant
4 12 (7.74%) Team Leader
5 11 (7.10%) Telecoms Manager
6 10 (6.45%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.81%) C++ Developer
7 9 (5.81%) Senior
8 8 (5.16%) Network Design Engineer
8 8 (5.16%) Python Developer
9 7 (4.52%) QA Leader
10 6 (3.87%) Network Manager
10 6 (3.87%) Performance Specialist
10 6 (3.87%) Procurement Manager
10 6 (3.87%) Radio Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Performance Consultant
11 5 (3.23%) Senior Performance Consultant
11 5 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.74%) JSON
2 9 (5.81%) XML
3 8 (5.16%) NETCONF
3 8 (5.16%) YANG
4 4 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.94%) Apache Camel
5 3 (1.94%) J2EE
5 3 (1.94%) Kafka
5 3 (1.94%) REST
5 3 (1.94%) Spring
5 3 (1.94%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.29%) CSS
6 2 (1.29%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.29%) HTML
6 2 (1.29%) Jest
6 2 (1.29%) Node.js
6 2 (1.29%) Playwright
6 2 (1.29%) React
7 1 (0.65%) .NET
7 1 (0.65%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.16%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (3.87%) IoT
3 4 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (2.58%) NB-IoT
4 3 (1.94%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.65%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.65%) NHS
5 1 (0.65%) PKI
5 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.32%) Linux
2 8 (5.16%) Windows
3 4 (2.58%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.65%) CentOS
4 1 (0.65%) Solaris
4 1 (0.65%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (16.13%) Customer Experience
2 22 (14.19%) Network Design
3 19 (12.26%) Roadmaps
4 16 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (9.03%) Load Balancing
5 14 (9.03%) Network Architecture
6 13 (8.39%) Capacity Planning
7 12 (7.74%) Agile
7 12 (7.74%) Computer Science
8 11 (7.10%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (6.45%) Test Automation
10 9 (5.81%) Network Virtualisation
10 9 (5.81%) Performance Management
10 9 (5.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (5.16%) Data Analysis
11 8 (5.16%) Data Protection
11 8 (5.16%) Project Management
11 8 (5.16%) Statistics
12 7 (4.52%) Decision-Making
12 7 (4.52%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.00%) Python
2 14 (9.03%) C++
3 9 (5.81%) C
4 4 (2.58%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.94%) Java
5 3 (1.94%) SQL
6 2 (1.29%) Bash
6 2 (1.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.29%) Swift
7 1 (0.65%) C#
7 1 (0.65%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (10.32%) Degree
2 13 (8.39%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.87%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.65%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) CCIE
6 1 (0.65%) CCNP
6 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.65%) CSPO
6 1 (0.65%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.16%) QA
2 2 (1.29%) SLA
3 1 (0.65%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.65%) NCSC
3 1 (0.65%) PMO
3 1 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (5.81%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.87%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.58%) Ansible
3 4 (2.58%) Grafana
3 4 (2.58%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.58%) Terraform
3 4 (2.58%) yum
4 3 (1.94%) Iperf
4 3 (1.94%) Kibana
5 1 (0.65%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.65%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 17 (10.97%) Cisco
2 13 (8.39%) Nokia
3 10 (6.45%) Juniper
4 8 (5.16%) F5
5 7 (4.52%) Fortinet
6 6 (3.87%) Empirix
6 6 (3.87%) NetScout
6 6 (3.87%) Oracle
6 6 (3.87%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.23%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.58%) Klocwork
8 4 (2.58%) Perforce
9 3 (1.94%) Ericsson
10 2 (1.29%) Huawei
10 2 (1.29%) Sparx
11 1 (0.65%) ADVA
11 1 (0.65%) Nokia Networks
11 1 (0.65%) Splunk
11 1 (0.65%) Tellabs
11 1 (0.65%) VMware