4G Contract Job Trends in Bristol

4G
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring 4G skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 50 74
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 +20
Contract jobs citing 4G 6 18 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.73% 2.54% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.04% 19.15% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 0
10th Percentile - £335 -
25th Percentile - £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £465 - -
South West median daily rate £463 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +2.78% -28.00% +19.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bristol

4G falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 46 94 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 5.59% 13.28% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 47 85
10th Percentile £272 £318 £240
25th Percentile £328 £413 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £456 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -20.78% +21.56%
75th Percentile £569 £553 £675
90th Percentile £610 £585 £700
South West median daily rate £533 £494 £550
% change year-on-year +7.85% -10.23% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 15
10th Percentile - £11.75 £58.75
25th Percentile £15.62 £64.69 £65.00
Median hourly rate £16.71 £71.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.55% -1.72% +11.54%
75th Percentile £41.39 £75.00 £76.63
90th Percentile £55.56 - £88.80
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -25.93% +19.49% -13.09%

4G
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing 4G relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

4G job vacancy trend in Bristol

4G
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing 4G.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing 4G

4G
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing 4G.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing 4G

4G
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (66.67%) LTE
3 3 (50.00%) 3GPP
3 3 (50.00%) 5G
3 3 (50.00%) Wireshark
4 2 (33.33%) 2G
5 1 (16.67%) 5G NR
5 1 (16.67%) MIMO
General
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Design Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Network Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Ericsson Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) RAN Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) RAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) IoT
1 2 (33.33%) NB-IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Network Design
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Co-Creation
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Project Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Ericsson
1 4 (66.67%) Nokia
2 3 (50.00%) Actix
3 2 (33.33%) BMC
3 2 (33.33%) Remedy
4 1 (16.67%) Mapinfo