5G Contracts in England

5G
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for 5G skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 5G over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 403 503 544
Rank change year-on-year +100 +41 -70
Contract jobs citing 5G 134 128 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.81% 2.17% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 75 98
10th Percentile £350 £228 £304
25th Percentile £420 £329 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +8.43%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £588 £800 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £430 £438
% change year-on-year +10.47% -1.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £53.81 £52.43 £59.80
25th Percentile £55.78 £55.75 £60.25
Median hourly rate £61.88 £66.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +5.16% +40.00%
75th Percentile £68.28 £69.69 £66.25
90th Percentile £70.44 £73.00 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -18.52% +7.14% +40.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

5G 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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,777 5,902 7,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.12% 12.33% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,882 3,858 5,213
10th Percentile £210 £235 £225
25th Percentile £350 £388 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% +5.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £615
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.41% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 415 319
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -26.81% +2.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £48.47
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +10.00%

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 23 May 2024.

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

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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 23 May 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
South East +3 44 £436 +2.53% 25
London +93 31 £490 -2.00% 22
East of England +28 21 £430 +43.33% 19
North of England +41 20 £345 -29.01% 5
North East - 10 - - 1
South West +9 9 £600 +50.00% 1
Midlands +34 6 - - 2
North West +23 6 £345 -27.64%
West Midlands +17 6 - - 1
Yorkshire +21 4 - - 4
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 7 (5.22%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.73%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.24%) Smartsheet
2 1 (0.75%) AWS
2 1 (0.75%) Azure
2 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (0.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 65 (48.51%) 4G
2 47 (35.07%) Radio Access Network
3 30 (22.39%) 3G
4 20 (14.93%) LTE
5 15 (11.19%) Network Security
5 15 (11.19%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (8.96%) Diameter Protocol
6 12 (8.96%) Wireless
7 11 (8.21%) DNS
7 11 (8.21%) Firewall
7 11 (8.21%) Wireshark
8 10 (7.46%) 2G
9 8 (5.97%) VoLTE
10 7 (5.22%) BGP
10 7 (5.22%) NAS
10 7 (5.22%) VPN
11 6 (4.48%) GGSN
11 6 (4.48%) RANAP
11 6 (4.48%) SGSN
12 5 (3.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.73%) GIS
1 5 (3.73%) QGIS
2 4 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.99%) MySQL
3 1 (0.75%) Big Data
3 1 (0.75%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 17 (12.69%) Git
2 12 (8.96%) JIRA
3 10 (7.46%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.99%) gcov
4 4 (2.99%) GDB
4 4 (2.99%) Gradle
4 4 (2.99%) Subversion
General
1 65 (48.51%) Telecoms
2 27 (20.15%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.96%) Finance
4 11 (8.21%) Multimedia
5 7 (5.22%) Legal
6 6 (4.48%) Law
6 6 (4.48%) Marketing
6 6 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.24%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.24%) Military
9 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Billing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (14.93%) Lead
2 13 (9.70%) Consultant
3 12 (8.96%) Network Engineer
3 12 (8.96%) Team Leader
4 11 (8.21%) Telecoms Manager
5 10 (7.46%) Developer
5 10 (7.46%) Project Manager
6 9 (6.72%) C++ Developer
7 8 (5.97%) Design Engineer
7 8 (5.97%) Python Developer
8 7 (5.22%) Network Design Engineer
8 7 (5.22%) QA Leader
9 6 (4.48%) Network Manager
9 6 (4.48%) Performance Specialist
9 6 (4.48%) Procurement Manager
9 6 (4.48%) Senior
10 5 (3.73%) Performance Consultant
10 5 (3.73%) Senior Consultant
10 5 (3.73%) Senior Performance Consultant
10 5 (3.73%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.72%) JSON
2 6 (4.48%) XML
3 5 (3.73%) NETCONF
3 5 (3.73%) YANG
4 4 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.75%) Django
5 1 (0.75%) Flask
5 1 (0.75%) React
5 1 (0.75%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.72%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (5.22%) IoT
3 6 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.73%) NB-IoT
5 4 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.24%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) PKI
7 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.45%) Linux
2 5 (3.73%) Windows
3 4 (2.99%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.75%) CentOS
4 1 (0.75%) Solaris
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (17.91%) Customer Experience
2 20 (14.93%) Network Design
3 18 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (11.19%) Roadmaps
5 13 (9.70%) Capacity Planning
5 13 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
6 12 (8.96%) Computer Science
6 12 (8.96%) Network Architecture
7 11 (8.21%) Load Balancing
7 11 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (7.46%) Data Protection
8 10 (7.46%) Test Automation
9 9 (6.72%) Performance Management
10 8 (5.97%) Agile
11 7 (5.22%) Data Analysis
11 7 (5.22%) Decision-Making
11 7 (5.22%) Statistics
11 7 (5.22%) Systems Engineering
12 6 (4.48%) Contract Management
12 6 (4.48%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.90%) Python
2 14 (10.45%) C++
3 9 (6.72%) C
4 4 (2.99%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.49%) Bash
5 2 (1.49%) Swift
6 1 (0.75%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 16 (11.94%) Degree
2 12 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.72%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.73%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.75%) CSPO
5 1 (0.75%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) QA
2 2 (1.49%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.75%) NCSC
3 1 (0.75%) PMO
3 1 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (4.48%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.73%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.99%) Ansible
3 4 (2.99%) Grafana
3 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.99%) Terraform
3 4 (2.99%) yum
4 3 (2.24%) Iperf
5 1 (0.75%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.75%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (6.72%) Cisco
2 8 (5.97%) Nokia
3 6 (4.48%) Empirix
3 6 (4.48%) Juniper
3 6 (4.48%) NetScout
3 6 (4.48%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.73%) F5
4 5 (3.73%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.99%) Klocwork
5 4 (2.99%) Oracle
5 4 (2.99%) Perforce
6 3 (2.24%) Ericsson
7 2 (1.49%) Sparx
8 1 (0.75%) Google
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.75%) Splunk