5G Contracts in the City of London

5G
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring 5G skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 5G over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 - 168
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing 5G 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% - 0.083%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.76% - 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.77%
Central London median daily rate £680 £523 £475
% change year-on-year +30.14% +10.00% +18.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

5G 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 170 212 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.68% 9.76% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 142 252
10th Percentile £253 £207 £233
25th Percentile £463 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.06% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £675
90th Percentile £734 £773 £750
Central London median daily rate £539 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.72% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -48.15%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for 5G in the City of London

5G
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for 5G in the City of London

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) 4G
1 2 (66.67%) LTE
1 2 (66.67%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (33.33%) 3G
2 1 (33.33%) 5G NR
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VSAN
2 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Service Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Fault Management
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Network Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Product Management
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Service Design
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Ericsson
2 1 (33.33%) Mavenir
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Nokia
2 1 (33.33%) VMware