5G Contracts in Scotland

5G
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 163 163
Rank change year-on-year +40 0 -9
Contract jobs citing 5G 8 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% 0.035% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.23% 0.28% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.33%
75th Percentile £589 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +11.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £67.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -62.59% +7.14% +40.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 248 352 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.24% 12.33% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 223 194
10th Percentile £187 £160 £179
25th Percentile £363 £356 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £626 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 16
10th Percentile £15.43 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.69 - £41.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.23% -77.62% -26.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £53.89
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for 5G in Scotland

5G
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for 5G in Scotland

5G
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 5G in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 5G in Scotland

5G
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
West Lothian - 6 £585 -
Glasgow +2 1 £365 -
Edinburgh - 1 - - 4
5G
UK

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (62.50%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 2G
1 1 (12.50%) 3G
1 1 (12.50%) 4G
1 1 (12.50%) BGP
1 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (12.50%) VPLS
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Git
2 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (75.00%) JIRA
3 5 (62.50%) Postman
4 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
4 3 (37.50%) IntelliJ
4 3 (37.50%) JUnit
5 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Radio Planner
4 1 (12.50%) React Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Camel
1 3 (37.50%) J2EE
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) REST
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Jest
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
2 2 (25.00%) React
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) NETCONF
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) CRM
1 5 (62.50%) IT Strategy
1 5 (62.50%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (25.00%) Component Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Nokia