5G Contracts in Hertfordshire

5G
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 59 71
Rank change year-on-year +28 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing 5G 15 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.70% 1.91% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.79% 13.01% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 1
10th Percentile - £350 -
25th Percentile £519 £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £430 £300
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +43.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £556 £450 -
90th Percentile £596 £463 -
East of England median daily rate £538 £440 £300
% change year-on-year +22.16% +46.67% -34.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - - £57.00
75th Percentile - - £60.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £57.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 95 123 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.78% 14.66% 23.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 58 105
10th Percentile £446 £290 £259
25th Percentile £463 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -19.05% +27.27%
75th Percentile £613 £486 £700
90th Percentile £635 £588 £714
East of England median daily rate £475 £415 £475
% change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 45 20
10th Percentile £52.00 £57.50 £55.98
25th Percentile £59.00 £61.25 £64.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +118.30%
75th Percentile £81.35 - £73.94
90th Percentile £86.80 - £74.65
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for 5G in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for 5G in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for 5G in Hertfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
5G
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 14 (93.33%) Wireless
2 11 (73.33%) 5G NR
3 4 (26.67%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (13.33%) 3GPP
4 2 (13.33%) 4G
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) CUDA Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Embedded Linux Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
1 2 (13.33%) REST
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
1 2 (13.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) CUDA
2 5 (33.33%) FPGA
3 4 (26.67%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (6.67%) ASIC
4 1 (6.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) API Development
1 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
1 2 (13.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) Go
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Tcl
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) NVIDIA
2 1 (6.67%) Samsung