4G Contracts in the East of England

4G
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for 4G skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 4G over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 117 141
Rank change year-on-year +31 +24 -32
Contract jobs citing 4G 24 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.26% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.97% 1.67% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 4
10th Percentile £350 - £349
25th Percentile £420 - £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +44.44% +21.21%
75th Percentile £488 - £455
90th Percentile - - £463
England median daily rate £475 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.00 -
England median hourly rate £24.50 £57.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -57.02% +75.38% -23.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

4G is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 301 360 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.80% 17.45% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 197 263
10th Percentile £200 £178 £193
25th Percentile £269 £313 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +11.76% +24.54%
75th Percentile £492 £672 £500
90th Percentile £575 £700 £600
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 44 50
10th Percentile £14.29 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% +167.74% -15.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £19.47
90th Percentile - £74.28 £40.97
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing 4G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for 4G in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 4G in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for 4G in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 4G in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for 4G in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 4G within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Suffolk - 12 £475 -
Hertfordshire +9 10 £430 - 2
Cambridgeshire +4 2 £400 -38.46% 9
4G
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 23 (95.83%) 5G
2 12 (50.00%) Firewall
2 12 (50.00%) Network Security
2 12 (50.00%) VPN
3 6 (25.00%) Wireless
4 5 (20.83%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (8.33%) LTE
6 1 (4.17%) 3GPP
6 1 (4.17%) Bluetooth
6 1 (4.17%) GSM
6 1 (4.17%) TETRA
6 1 (4.17%) UMTS
6 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Core Network Specialist
1 6 (25.00%) Design Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) IP Design Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) IP Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Mobile Specialist
1 6 (25.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Network Design Specialist
1 6 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Network Specialist
2 5 (20.83%) C++ Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Python Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) 4G Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Wireless Product Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) GNSS
1 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 12 (50.00%) Network Design
1 12 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (12.50%) Agile
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (4.17%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (4.17%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (4.17%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (4.17%) Scrum
3 1 (4.17%) Use Case
3 1 (4.17%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) C++
1 5 (20.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Cisco
1 12 (50.00%) Juniper