5G Contracts in Cumbria

5G
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing 5G 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 2.16% - 5.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.44% - 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £422 - £454
25th Percentile £428 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 - £486
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £451 - -
North West median daily rate £220 £365 £477
% change year-on-year -39.73% -23.44% +15.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 90 39 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 48.65% 15.60% 46.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 30 27
10th Percentile £338 £461 £429
25th Percentile £447 £514 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £477
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +20.55% -5.07%
75th Percentile £588 £669 £486
90th Percentile £638 £688 £487
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for 5G in Cumbria

5G
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 4 £442 - 3
5G
North West

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 4 (100.00%) 4G
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) IPsec
1 4 (100.00%) MPLS
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Designer
1 4 (100.00%) Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Dell