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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 547 788
Rank change year-on-year +204 +241 -263
Permanent jobs citing 5G 270 114 54
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.80% 0.27% 0.079%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.17% 2.45% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 26 66 33
10th Percentile £52,500 £33,750 £36,300
25th Percentile £54,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £46,500 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.91% -34.04% +3.68%
75th Percentile £80,938 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £42,500 £70,500
% change year-on-year +47.06% -39.72% +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 5,225 4,658 7,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.47% 11.23% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,372 3,460 4,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,562 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +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 9 May 2024.

5G salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

5G
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:

Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 210 (77.78%) Azure
1 210 (77.78%) Entra ID
2 10 (3.70%) GitHub
3 3 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (0.74%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 217 (80.37%) Broadband
2 22 (8.15%) Firewall
3 16 (5.93%) VPN
3 16 (5.93%) WAN
4 15 (5.56%) 4G
5 11 (4.07%) SD-WAN
6 10 (3.70%) DHCP
6 10 (3.70%) DNS
6 10 (3.70%) Wireless
7 6 (2.22%) IPv4
7 6 (2.22%) LTE
7 6 (2.22%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.85%) 5G NR
8 5 (1.85%) 802.11
8 5 (1.85%) Ethernet
8 5 (1.85%) MPLS
8 5 (1.85%) Software-Defined Radio
9 4 (1.48%) 3GPP
10 3 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.74%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 10 (3.70%) Git
1 10 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 10 (3.70%) JIRA
1 10 (3.70%) Trac
2 3 (1.11%) GCC
2 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 213 (78.89%) Analytical Skills
2 212 (78.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 29 (10.74%) Telecoms
4 19 (7.04%) Social Skills
5 10 (3.70%) Finance
6 9 (3.33%) Legal
7 6 (2.22%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.85%) Marketing
9 4 (1.48%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.11%) Retail
11 1 (0.37%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 215 (79.63%) Technical Specialist
2 210 (77.78%) Linux Specialist
3 133 (49.26%) Senior
4 127 (47.04%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (47.04%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (47.04%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (47.04%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 15 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (2.96%) Software Engineer
7 6 (2.22%) GNSS Engineer
7 6 (2.22%) Network Engineer
7 6 (2.22%) RF Engineer
8 5 (1.85%) Radio Specialist
8 5 (1.85%) Support Specialist
9 4 (1.48%) Architect
9 4 (1.48%) Developer
9 4 (1.48%) Software Developer
10 3 (1.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (1.11%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (1.85%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 210 (77.78%) Social Media
2 9 (3.33%) GNSS
3 8 (2.96%) IoT
4 5 (1.85%) Driving Licence
4 5 (1.85%) PCIe
5 4 (1.48%) Device Driver
6 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.37%) PKI
7 1 (0.37%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 239 (88.52%) Linux
2 210 (77.78%) Ubuntu
3 13 (4.81%) Windows
4 11 (4.07%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (81.48%) Cybersecurity
2 210 (77.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 210 (77.78%) CRM
2 210 (77.78%) IT Strategy
2 210 (77.78%) Technology Strategy
3 19 (7.04%) Configuration Management
3 19 (7.04%) Validation
4 16 (5.93%) Actionable Insight
5 15 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (5.56%) Software Engineering
6 13 (4.81%) Signal Processing
7 10 (3.70%) DevOps
8 9 (3.33%) B2B
8 9 (3.33%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (3.33%) Test Assurance
8 9 (3.33%) Test Automation
9 8 (2.96%) Customer Service
9 8 (2.96%) Digital Signal Processing
9 8 (2.96%) Project Management
10 7 (2.59%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 214 (79.26%) Bash
2 15 (5.56%) Python
3 10 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.22%) C
5 5 (1.85%) Assembly Language
6 4 (1.48%) C++
6 4 (1.48%) Perl
7 2 (0.74%) C#
8 1 (0.37%) Ruby
8 1 (0.37%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 25 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.56%) Degree
4 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.11%) PMO
3 1 (0.37%) NCSC
3 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 220 (81.48%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.78%) Hyper-V
3 16 (5.93%) pfSense
3 16 (5.93%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.70%) Docker
4 10 (3.70%) NFS
5 5 (1.85%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 210 (77.78%) Jamf Pro
1 210 (77.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (5.93%) Grafana
2 16 (5.93%) ZABBIX
3 10 (3.70%) Ansible
3 10 (3.70%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 10 (3.70%) SCDPM
4 5 (1.85%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.11%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.37%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 222 (82.22%) Microsoft
2 210 (77.78%) CyberArk
2 210 (77.78%) Tanium
3 17 (6.30%) Fortinet
3 17 (6.30%) Juniper
4 16 (5.93%) VMware
5 10 (3.70%) McAfee
5 10 (3.70%) Veeam
6 7 (2.59%) Oracle
6 7 (2.59%) Virgin Media
7 6 (2.22%) Cisco
8 5 (1.85%) Darktrace
8 5 (1.85%) HP
8 5 (1.85%) NEC
9 2 (0.74%) Sparx
10 1 (0.37%) Intel
10 1 (0.37%) Splunk