5G
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 765 964
Rank change year-on-year +258 +199 -247
Permanent jobs citing 5G 442 187 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.27% 1.21% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 87 110 156
10th Percentile £42,000 £22,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £32,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,500 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -34.04% +28.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £70,500
% change year-on-year +29.41% -39.72% +32.39%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,526 15,491 22,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.91% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,761 11,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 5G over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 5G in the UK

5G
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +287 439 £60,000 +29.03% 60
Work from Home +206 277 £71,250 +53.23% 29
UK excluding London +79 264 £55,000 +29.41% 49
London +299 175 £75,000 -1.64% 14
South East +75 149 £55,000 +18.28% 15
South West +3 48 £61,500 -10.55% 4
East of England - 42 £65,000 - 14
West Midlands +20 13 £55,000 -21.99% 1
Midlands +5 13 £55,000 -21.99% 2
North of England +4 12 £40,000 -5.88% 7
Yorkshire +28 5 £27,500 -35.29% 4
North West - 4 £40,000 - 1
North East - 3 £80,000 - 2

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 8 (1.81%) Confluence
2 4 (0.90%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.23%) OrCAD
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.13%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.90%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 212 (47.96%) Azure
1 212 (47.96%) Entra ID
2 10 (2.26%) GitHub
3 8 (1.81%) SaaS
4 6 (1.36%) AWS
4 6 (1.36%) GCP
5 3 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.23%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 252 (57.01%) Broadband
2 55 (12.44%) WAN
3 53 (11.99%) 4G
4 51 (11.54%) Wireless
5 38 (8.60%) SD-WAN
6 36 (8.14%) Firewall
7 35 (7.92%) LTE
8 27 (6.11%) Bluetooth
8 27 (6.11%) GSM
9 25 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (5.20%) UMTS
11 22 (4.98%) ISDN
11 22 (4.98%) PSTN
12 18 (4.07%) DNS
13 17 (3.85%) MPLS
13 17 (3.85%) VPN
14 16 (3.62%) Radio Access Network
15 13 (2.94%) DHCP
16 10 (2.26%) Internet
16 10 (2.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (5.20%) LabVIEW
2 19 (4.30%) JIRA
3 14 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.94%) Git
5 10 (2.26%) Trac
6 4 (0.90%) GCC
7 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 274 (61.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 271 (61.31%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (25.11%) Telecoms
4 101 (22.85%) Social Skills
5 52 (11.76%) Finance
6 39 (8.82%) Marketing
7 36 (8.14%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (5.43%) Electronics
9 12 (2.71%) Law
9 12 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.04%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.58%) Legal
12 6 (1.36%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.13%) Back Office
14 4 (0.90%) Banking
15 3 (0.68%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.23%) Automotive
16 1 (0.23%) Avionics
16 1 (0.23%) Military
16 1 (0.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 215 (48.64%) Technical Specialist
2 210 (47.51%) Linux Specialist
3 160 (36.20%) Senior
4 127 (28.73%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (28.73%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (28.73%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (28.73%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 23 (5.20%) Lead
6 18 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (3.85%) RF Engineer
7 17 (3.85%) Senior Manager
8 16 (3.62%) GNSS Engineer
9 15 (3.39%) Developer
9 15 (3.39%) Hardware Engineer
10 14 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
11 12 (2.71%) Software Engineer
11 12 (2.71%) Technical Leader
12 11 (2.49%) Network Engineer
12 11 (2.49%) Project Manager
12 11 (2.49%) Technical Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.36%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.90%) REST
3 4 (0.90%) Web Services
4 2 (0.45%) Middleware
5 1 (0.23%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 210 (47.51%) Social Media
2 24 (5.43%) IoT
3 22 (4.98%) Acoustics
3 22 (4.98%) Satnav
4 18 (4.07%) Driving Licence
5 17 (3.85%) GNSS
5 17 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.71%) FPGA
7 11 (2.49%) Robotics
8 10 (2.26%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.04%) ARM Cortex
9 9 (2.04%) VHDL
10 8 (1.81%) MicroBlaze
11 6 (1.36%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.36%) Device Driver
11 6 (1.36%) PCIe
12 5 (1.13%) Culture of Ownership
12 5 (1.13%) Fibre Optics
12 5 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 255 (57.69%) Linux
2 210 (47.51%) Ubuntu
3 29 (6.56%) Windows
4 11 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.81%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (1.13%) Unix
7 4 (0.90%) AIX
8 3 (0.68%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (55.43%) Cybersecurity
2 222 (50.23%) Artificial Intelligence
3 210 (47.51%) CRM
3 210 (47.51%) IT Strategy
3 210 (47.51%) Technology Strategy
4 78 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (13.80%) Test Automation
6 50 (11.31%) Project Management
7 47 (10.63%) Mentoring
8 45 (10.18%) B2B
9 41 (9.28%) Agile
10 39 (8.82%) Data Management
10 39 (8.82%) Knowledge Transfer
11 36 (8.14%) Roadmaps
11 36 (8.14%) Test Assurance
12 35 (7.92%) Project Delivery
13 33 (7.47%) Collaborative Culture
14 32 (7.24%) Validation
15 30 (6.79%) Market Research
15 30 (6.79%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 211 (47.74%) Bash
2 43 (9.73%) Python
3 22 (4.98%) C++
4 17 (3.85%) C
5 13 (2.94%) MATLAB
6 10 (2.26%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.04%) Perl
7 9 (2.04%) Tcl
8 8 (1.81%) VB
9 6 (1.36%) Assembly Language
10 3 (0.68%) C#
11 2 (0.45%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.23%) Ruby
12 1 (0.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (20.59%) Degree
2 44 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.79%) Master's Degree
3 30 (6.79%) MBA
4 22 (4.98%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
7 5 (1.13%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.13%) CISM
7 5 (1.13%) CISSP
8 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.23%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.52%) PMO
2 17 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (2.04%) COSHH
3 9 (2.04%) GDPR
3 9 (2.04%) NCSC
4 6 (1.36%) QA
5 5 (1.13%) NIST
5 5 (1.13%) SLA
6 3 (0.68%) JTAG
7 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 220 (49.77%) Active Directory
2 33 (7.47%) Hyper-V
3 21 (4.75%) Firmware
4 16 (3.62%) pfSense
4 16 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.39%) Embedded Firmware
6 12 (2.71%) Docker
7 10 (2.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 210 (47.51%) Jamf Pro
1 210 (47.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (3.85%) FortiGate
3 16 (3.62%) Grafana
3 16 (3.62%) ZABBIX
4 10 (2.26%) Ansible
4 10 (2.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 10 (2.26%) SCDPM
5 4 (0.90%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.23%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 221 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 210 (47.51%) CyberArk
2 210 (47.51%) Tanium
3 40 (9.05%) Virgin Media
4 19 (4.30%) Cisco
5 18 (4.07%) Juniper
6 17 (3.85%) Darktrace
6 17 (3.85%) Fortinet
6 17 (3.85%) HP
6 17 (3.85%) NEC
7 16 (3.62%) VMware
8 10 (2.26%) McAfee
8 10 (2.26%) Oracle
8 10 (2.26%) Veeam
9 9 (2.04%) Mitel
9 9 (2.04%) Ribbon
9 9 (2.04%) Xilinx
10 8 (1.81%) Altera
10 8 (1.81%) Green Hills
10 8 (1.81%) Motorola