Radio Access Network Contract Job Trends in Central London

Radio Access Network (RAN)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Radio Access Network skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 128 140
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Radio Access Network 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.099% 0.087% 0.075%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.10% 0.82% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £680 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.15% - -
London median daily rate £450 £640 £575
% change year-on-year -29.69% +11.30% +15.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

Radio Access Network 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 181 245 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.95% 10.64% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 162 180
10th Percentile £302 £264 £255
25th Percentile £419 £449 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £596
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
London median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £20.69 - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%
75th Percentile £26.11 £33.75 £48.22
90th Percentile £30.39 - £65.79
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.63
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.27% +14.50%

Radio Access Network
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Radio Access Network relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Radio Access Network job vacancy trend in Central London

Radio Access Network
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Radio Access Network.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Radio Access Network

Radio Access Network
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Radio Access Network.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Radio Access Network

Radio Access Network
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Radio Access Network within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
City of London -7 2 £475 -30.15% 1
Radio Access Network
London

Radio Access Network
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) 4G
1 2 (100.00%) 5G
2 1 (50.00%) 2G
2 1 (50.00%) 3GPP
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Network Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) NB-IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Co-Creation
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell