5G Contracts in the UK excluding London

5G
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 275 349 388
Rank change year-on-year +74 +39 -52
Contract jobs citing 5G 112 88 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.38% 0.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.42% 2.54% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 52 55
10th Percentile £350 £225 £328
25th Percentile £374 £280 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £428 £433
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.27% +8.25%
75th Percentile £542 £553 £481
90th Percentile £590 £599 £573
UK median daily rate £475 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +10.47% -4.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £24.60 £52.43 -
25th Percentile £25.13 £55.75 -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £66.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.75% - -
75th Percentile £41.75 £69.69 -
90th Percentile £51.20 £73.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £68.75 £63.00
% change year-on-year -41.09% +9.13% +40.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,271 3,471 4,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.14% 15.05% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,857 2,184 2,631
10th Percentile £203 £206 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 313 243
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.88
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -8.99%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.80 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £73.23 £59.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 5G in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 5G in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for 5G in the UK excluding London

5G
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for 5G in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 5G in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for 5G in the UK excluding London

5G
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for 5G in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region 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
South East +9 46 £500 +21.21% 24
East of England +31 24 £450 +50.00% 13
North of England +33 19 £365 -24.90% 8
Scotland +55 9 £585 - 6
South West +14 8 £600 +50.00% 5
North East - 8 - - 2
North West +20 7 £365 -23.44% 1
Midlands +32 6 - - 4
West Midlands +19 6 - - 4
Yorkshire +23 4 - - 5
5G
UK

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.46%) Confluence
1 5 (4.46%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Communications & Networking
1 58 (51.79%) 4G
2 36 (32.14%) Radio Access Network
3 28 (25.00%) 3G
4 15 (13.39%) LTE
5 12 (10.71%) Network Security
6 11 (9.82%) Wireless
7 10 (8.93%) Diameter Protocol
7 10 (8.93%) Firewall
7 10 (8.93%) VPN
7 10 (8.93%) Wireshark
8 7 (6.25%) 2G
8 7 (6.25%) DNS
8 7 (6.25%) VoLTE
9 6 (5.36%) GGSN
9 6 (5.36%) NAS
9 6 (5.36%) RANAP
9 6 (5.36%) SGSN
10 5 (4.46%) GPRS
11 4 (3.57%) GSM
11 4 (3.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (10.71%) JIRA
2 11 (9.82%) Git
3 6 (5.36%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.46%) Postman
5 4 (3.57%) gcov
5 4 (3.57%) GDB
5 4 (3.57%) Gradle
5 4 (3.57%) Subversion
6 3 (2.68%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.68%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.68%) JUnit
7 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (50.89%) Telecoms
2 30 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.82%) Multimedia
4 10 (8.93%) Finance
5 6 (5.36%) Law
5 6 (5.36%) Legal
5 6 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.68%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.68%) Marketing
7 3 (2.68%) Military
8 2 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Automotive
9 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Local Government
9 1 (0.89%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 14 (12.50%) Lead
2 13 (11.61%) Developer
3 12 (10.71%) Consultant
3 12 (10.71%) Team Leader
4 10 (8.93%) Telecoms Manager
5 9 (8.04%) C++ Developer
6 8 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 8 (7.14%) Senior
7 7 (6.25%) Network Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Network Manager
8 6 (5.36%) Performance Specialist
8 6 (5.36%) Procurement Manager
8 6 (5.36%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.46%) Build Manager
9 5 (4.46%) Network Design Specialist
9 5 (4.46%) Network Specialist
9 5 (4.46%) Performance Consultant
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Performance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) JSON
2 4 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.68%) Apache Camel
3 3 (2.68%) J2EE
3 3 (2.68%) Kafka
3 3 (2.68%) REST
3 3 (2.68%) Spring
3 3 (2.68%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.79%) CSS
4 2 (1.79%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.79%) HTML
4 2 (1.79%) Jest
4 2 (1.79%) Node.js
4 2 (1.79%) Playwright
4 2 (1.79%) React
4 2 (1.79%) XML
5 1 (0.89%) .NET
5 1 (0.89%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.89%) SPML
5 1 (0.89%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (4.46%) IoT
3 3 (2.68%) NB-IoT
4 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.89%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.89%) NHS
5 1 (0.89%) PKI
5 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.61%) Linux
2 6 (5.36%) Windows
3 4 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.89%) Solaris
4 1 (0.89%) Unix
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.86%) Customer Experience
2 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (12.50%) Network Design
4 13 (11.61%) Capacity Planning
5 11 (9.82%) Computer Science
5 11 (9.82%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (8.93%) Network Architecture
6 10 (8.93%) Roadmaps
7 9 (8.04%) Performance Management
8 8 (7.14%) Agile
8 8 (7.14%) Load Balancing
8 8 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
8 8 (7.14%) Statistics
9 7 (6.25%) Systems Engineering
10 6 (5.36%) Contract Management
10 6 (5.36%) Decision-Making
10 6 (5.36%) Edge Computing
10 6 (5.36%) Line Management
10 6 (5.36%) Performance Improvement
10 6 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.82%) C++
2 10 (8.93%) Python
3 7 (6.25%) C
4 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.68%) Java
5 3 (2.68%) SQL
6 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.89%) C#
7 1 (0.89%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 13 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.71%) Degree
3 11 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.89%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.89%) CSPO
6 1 (0.89%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.79%) SLA
2 1 (0.89%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.89%) NCSC
2 1 (0.89%) PMO
2 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.14%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.57%) Ansible
2 4 (3.57%) Grafana
2 4 (3.57%) Prometheus
2 4 (3.57%) Terraform
2 4 (3.57%) yum
3 3 (2.68%) Kibana
4 1 (0.89%) Check_MK
4 1 (0.89%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (10.71%) Cisco
2 10 (8.93%) Juniper
3 6 (5.36%) Empirix
3 6 (5.36%) NetScout
3 6 (5.36%) Oracle
4 4 (3.57%) Klocwork
4 4 (3.57%) Perforce
5 3 (2.68%) Nokia
6 2 (1.79%) Sparx
7 1 (0.89%) ADVA
7 1 (0.89%) F5
7 1 (0.89%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.89%) Nokia Networks
7 1 (0.89%) Splunk
7 1 (0.89%) Tellabs