5G Contracts in England

5G
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 417 488
Rank change year-on-year +9 +71 +73
Contract jobs citing 5G 87 142 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.38% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.60% 2.94% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 47 85
10th Percentile £300 £326 £229
25th Percentile £400 £400 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £556 £538 £550
90th Percentile £604 £592 £730
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £430
% change year-on-year -5.26% +10.47% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £53.81 £40.62
25th Percentile - £55.78 £52.43
Median hourly rate - £61.88 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.81% +2.80%
75th Percentile - £68.28 £70.00
90th Percentile - £70.44 £72.40
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year - -18.52% +6.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,342 4,835 6,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 12.95% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,064 2,876 3,935
10th Percentile £235 £214 £240
25th Percentile £363 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.50% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 390 380
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.79 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% +103.45% -10.66%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% +100.00% -22.57%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 5G in England

5G
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 5G in England.

Daily rate trend for 5G in England

5G
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 5G in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 5G in England

5G
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 5G in England.

Hourly rate trend for 5G in England

5G
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
London +20 21 £450 -8.16% 117
South East +5 21 £338 -18.08% 80
East of England +30 20 £538 +25.00% 29
South West +45 16 £425 -27.66% 19
North West +13 11 £220 - 23
North of England -3 11 £220 - 36
West Midlands +9 2 £625 +61.29% 19
Midlands +6 2 £625 +61.29% 28
5G
UK

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.90%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.30%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.90%) AWS
2 2 (2.30%) Azure
2 2 (2.30%) PaaS
2 2 (2.30%) SaaS
3 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.15%) GCP
3 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 43 (49.43%) 4G
2 23 (26.44%) LTE
3 19 (21.84%) Radio Access Network
4 18 (20.69%) Wireless
5 17 (19.54%) 5G NR
6 16 (18.39%) 2G
6 16 (18.39%) 3G
7 11 (12.64%) Firewall
8 9 (10.34%) 3GPP
8 9 (10.34%) MPLS
8 9 (10.34%) VoIP
9 7 (8.05%) Wireshark
10 6 (6.90%) VoLTE
10 6 (6.90%) VoWiFi
11 5 (5.75%) BGP
11 5 (5.75%) DHCP
11 5 (5.75%) DNS
11 5 (5.75%) IPsec
11 5 (5.75%) OSPF
11 5 (5.75%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) JIRA
General
1 42 (48.28%) Telecoms
2 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.34%) Billing
4 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Military
6 2 (2.30%) Aviation
6 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.15%) Electronics
7 1 (1.15%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.15%) French Language
7 1 (1.15%) Local Government
7 1 (1.15%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.15%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (13.79%) Project Manager
2 8 (9.20%) Test Engineer
3 7 (8.05%) CUDA Engineer
3 7 (8.05%) Design Engineer
3 7 (8.05%) Embedded Engineer
3 7 (8.05%) Embedded Linux Engineer
3 7 (8.05%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (8.05%) Senior
3 7 (8.05%) Telecoms Manager
3 7 (8.05%) Telecoms Project Manager
4 6 (6.90%) Architect
4 6 (6.90%) OSS Project Manager
5 5 (5.75%) Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Designer
5 5 (5.75%) Field Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Field Test Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Network Designer
5 5 (5.75%) Radio Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Test Analyst
6 4 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.30%) OpenAPI
1 2 (2.30%) REST
1 2 (2.30%) RESTful
1 2 (2.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.09%) IoT
2 10 (11.49%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.05%) CUDA
3 7 (8.05%) Operational Technology
3 7 (8.05%) Smartphone
4 4 (4.60%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.60%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (4.60%) FPGA
5 3 (3.45%) CCTV
5 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.45%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (3.45%) Replication
5 3 (3.45%) TM Forum
6 2 (2.30%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 2 (2.30%) NB-IoT
6 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.30%) PKI
6 2 (2.30%) SCADA
6 2 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.34%) Linux
2 7 (8.05%) Android
2 7 (8.05%) Apple iOS
2 7 (8.05%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (3.45%) Windows
4 2 (2.30%) VMS
4 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 11 (12.64%) Validation
3 10 (11.49%) Agile
3 10 (11.49%) Project Management
4 9 (10.34%) Fault Management
4 9 (10.34%) Migration
4 9 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (9.20%) CRM
5 8 (9.20%) PRINCE2
6 7 (8.05%) Network Architecture
6 7 (8.05%) Network Management
6 7 (8.05%) Risk Management
7 6 (6.90%) Computer Science
7 6 (6.90%) High Availability
7 6 (6.90%) Network Design
7 6 (6.90%) Scrum
7 6 (6.90%) Waterfall
8 5 (5.75%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (5.75%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.45%) C++
1 3 (3.45%) Python
2 2 (2.30%) Go
2 2 (2.30%) Java
3 1 (1.15%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) PMI Certification
2 9 (10.34%) PMP
2 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) Degree
4 4 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.30%) CCNP
6 2 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.15%) CISSP
7 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.15%) ISEB
7 1 (1.15%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) NCSC
1 4 (4.60%) SLA
2 2 (2.30%) OASIS TOSCA
2 2 (2.30%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (8.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (9.20%) Amdocs OSS
2 6 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.45%) NSN NetAct
4 2 (2.30%) Ansible
4 2 (2.30%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) Nokia
2 18 (20.69%) Ericsson
3 8 (9.20%) Amdocs
3 8 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.20%) NetCracker
4 7 (8.05%) NVIDIA
5 6 (6.90%) Ciena
5 6 (6.90%) Cisco
5 6 (6.90%) Dell
5 6 (6.90%) Juniper
6 4 (4.60%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.45%) F5
7 3 (3.45%) Huawei
7 3 (3.45%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.30%) Splunk
8 2 (2.30%) VMware
9 1 (1.15%) Agilent
9 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.15%) Ribbon