5G Contracts in the North of England

5G
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 209 239
Rank change year-on-year +45 +30 -67
Contract jobs citing 5G 18 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.12% 0.085%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.17% 1.05% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £333 £451 £376
25th Percentile £344 £459 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £486 £414
Median % change year-on-year -24.90% +17.46% -36.35%
75th Percentile £371 - £423
90th Percentile £374 £596 -
England median daily rate £475 £440 £450
% change year-on-year +7.95% -2.22% +11.87%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 567 665 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.14% 11.70% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 448 607
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £612 £575 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 26
10th Percentile £13.31 - £10.93
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.06
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -41.75% +5.80%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.40
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £50.48
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for 5G in the North of England

5G
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for 5G in the North of England

5G
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 10 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
North West +24 7 £365 -23.44% 2
North East - 7 - - 3
Yorkshire +22 4 - - 1
5G
England

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Diameter Protocol
1 4 (22.22%) LTE
2 3 (16.67%) 3G
2 3 (16.67%) 4G
2 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (11.11%) 2G
4 1 (5.56%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (22.22%) MySQL
General
1 11 (61.11%) Telecoms
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Lead
1 8 (44.44%) Team Leader
2 3 (16.67%) Technical Design Authority
3 2 (11.11%) Radio Planner
4 1 (5.56%) Radio Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (22.22%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Network Design
1 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 3 (16.67%) Network Architecture
2 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (11.11%) Business Case
3 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
3 2 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (11.11%) Network Optimisation
3 2 (11.11%) Network Planning
3 2 (11.11%) Project Management
3 2 (11.11%) Radio Network Optimisation
3 2 (11.11%) Statistics
3 2 (11.11%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
1 4 (22.22%) Grafana
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
1 4 (22.22%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle