Radio Access Network Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Radio Access Network (RAN)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Radio Access Network skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 116 127
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +60
Contract jobs citing Radio Access Network 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.16% 0.083%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.41% 1.55% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -
Central London median daily rate £475 £520 -
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 142 194 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.54% 10.46% 10.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 127 163
10th Percentile £244 £248 £210
25th Percentile £413 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +13.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £609
90th Percentile £738 £731 £728
Central London median daily rate £510 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -2.86% +10.53% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £20.31 - -
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £16.22
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +100.43% -20.90%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £33.57
90th Percentile £42.74 - £59.93
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%

Radio Access Network
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Radio Access Network job vacancy trend in the City of London

Radio Access Network
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Radio Access Network.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Radio Access Network

Radio Access Network
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Radio Access Network.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Radio Access Network

Radio Access Network
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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