5G Jobs with Work from Home Options

5G
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for 5G skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited 5G over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 543 799
Rank change year-on-year +215 +256 -258
Permanent jobs citing 5G 273 117 62
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.81% 0.29% 0.087%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.27% 2.56% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 28 68 39
10th Percentile - £33,375 £37,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £46,500 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.91% -34.04% +3.68%
75th Percentile £80,313 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,875 £77,375 £78,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £44,000 £70,500
% change year-on-year +36.36% -37.59% +28.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,180 4,569 7,962
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.32% 11.26% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,323 3,394 5,076
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,717
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

5G
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

5G trend for jobs with a WFH option

5G
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing 5G.

5G salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

5G
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing 5G over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

5G salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (1.83%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 210 (76.92%) Azure
1 210 (76.92%) Entra ID
2 10 (3.66%) GitHub
3 3 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (0.73%) AWS
4 2 (0.73%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 217 (79.49%) Broadband
2 23 (8.42%) Firewall
3 17 (6.23%) 4G
3 17 (6.23%) WAN
4 16 (5.86%) VPN
5 11 (4.03%) SD-WAN
5 11 (4.03%) Wireless
6 10 (3.66%) DHCP
6 10 (3.66%) DNS
7 6 (2.20%) IPv4
7 6 (2.20%) LTE
7 6 (2.20%) MPLS
7 6 (2.20%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.83%) 5G NR
8 5 (1.83%) 802.11
8 5 (1.83%) Ethernet
8 5 (1.83%) Software-Defined Radio
9 4 (1.47%) 3GPP
10 3 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.73%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 10 (3.66%) Git
1 10 (3.66%) Jenkins
1 10 (3.66%) JIRA
1 10 (3.66%) Trac
2 4 (1.47%) GCC
3 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 213 (78.02%) Analytical Skills
2 212 (77.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 32 (11.72%) Telecoms
4 19 (6.96%) Social Skills
5 7 (2.56%) Legal
6 6 (2.20%) Finance
7 4 (1.47%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.47%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.10%) Marketing
9 2 (0.73%) Back Office
10 1 (0.37%) Military
10 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Retail
10 1 (0.37%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 215 (78.75%) Technical Specialist
2 210 (76.92%) Linux Specialist
3 132 (48.35%) Senior
4 127 (46.52%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (46.52%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (46.52%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (46.52%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 16 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (2.93%) GNSS Engineer
6 8 (2.93%) RF Engineer
7 7 (2.56%) Network Engineer
8 6 (2.20%) Architect
8 6 (2.20%) Software Engineer
9 5 (1.83%) Developer
9 5 (1.83%) Radio Specialist
9 5 (1.83%) Software Developer
9 5 (1.83%) Support Specialist
10 4 (1.47%) Lead
11 3 (1.10%) IoT Architect
11 3 (1.10%) Network Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.83%) 802.1X
1 5 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 210 (76.92%) Social Media
2 9 (3.30%) GNSS
2 9 (3.30%) IoT
3 6 (2.20%) Driving Licence
4 5 (1.83%) PCIe
5 4 (1.47%) Device Driver
6 3 (1.10%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.10%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.73%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.73%) Culture of Ownership
7 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.73%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.37%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.37%) PKI
8 1 (0.37%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 239 (87.55%) Linux
2 210 (76.92%) Ubuntu
3 13 (4.76%) Windows
4 11 (4.03%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.83%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (80.22%) Cybersecurity
2 210 (76.92%) Artificial Intelligence
2 210 (76.92%) CRM
2 210 (76.92%) IT Strategy
2 210 (76.92%) Technology Strategy
3 17 (6.23%) Configuration Management
3 17 (6.23%) Validation
4 16 (5.86%) Actionable Insight
4 16 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (4.76%) Software Engineering
6 12 (4.40%) DevOps
7 11 (4.03%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (4.03%) Signal Processing
8 9 (3.30%) B2B
8 9 (3.30%) Test Assurance
8 9 (3.30%) Test Automation
9 8 (2.93%) Customer Engagement
9 8 (2.93%) Project Delivery
9 8 (2.93%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (2.56%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 212 (77.66%) Bash
2 13 (4.76%) Python
3 10 (3.66%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.20%) C
5 5 (1.83%) Assembly Language
6 3 (1.10%) C++
7 2 (0.73%) C#
7 2 (0.73%) Perl
8 1 (0.37%) Ruby
8 1 (0.37%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 25 (9.16%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.96%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.49%) Degree
4 5 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.37%) NCSC
2 1 (0.37%) PMO
2 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 220 (80.59%) Active Directory
2 22 (8.06%) Hyper-V
3 16 (5.86%) pfSense
3 16 (5.86%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.66%) Docker
4 10 (3.66%) NFS
5 5 (1.83%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (1.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 210 (76.92%) Jamf Pro
1 210 (76.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (5.86%) Grafana
2 16 (5.86%) ZABBIX
3 10 (3.66%) Ansible
3 10 (3.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 10 (3.66%) SCDPM
4 6 (2.20%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.47%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.37%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 220 (80.59%) Microsoft
2 210 (76.92%) CyberArk
2 210 (76.92%) Tanium
3 18 (6.59%) Juniper
4 17 (6.23%) Fortinet
5 16 (5.86%) VMware
6 10 (3.66%) McAfee
6 10 (3.66%) Veeam
7 8 (2.93%) Cisco
8 7 (2.56%) Virgin Media
9 6 (2.20%) Darktrace
9 6 (2.20%) HP
9 6 (2.20%) NEC
10 5 (1.83%) Oracle
11 2 (0.73%) Sparx
12 1 (0.37%) Intel
12 1 (0.37%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.37%) Splunk