5G Contracts in the North of England

5G
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 152 191
Rank change year-on-year -31 +39 +67
Contract jobs citing 5G 7 19 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.46% 0.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.35% 3.91% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £209 - £450
25th Percentile £220 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £375 £477
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -21.34% +15.23%
75th Percentile £447 - £486
90th Percentile £449 - -
England median daily rate £436 £490 £453
% change year-on-year -10.97% +8.29% +3.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 520 486 650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.04% 11.75% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 314 456
10th Percentile £160 £217 £216
25th Percentile £325 £401 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +14.44% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £565
90th Percentile £638 £816 £650
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 16
10th Percentile £23.00 £13.87 £15.72
25th Percentile £31.38 £18.21 £15.75
Median hourly rate £58.25 £24.87 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +134.22% +36.27% -14.68%
75th Percentile £67.25 £49.31 £23.69
90th Percentile £68.71 £51.96 £46.17
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +57.14%

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

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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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 5G in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 5G in the North of England

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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 18 August 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
North West -1 7 £435 +16.00% 5
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 (57.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) 4G
2 4 (57.14%) 3GPP
2 4 (57.14%) BGP
2 4 (57.14%) DHCP
2 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) IPsec
2 4 (57.14%) MPLS
2 4 (57.14%) OSPF
2 4 (57.14%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (57.14%) VLAN
2 4 (57.14%) Wireshark
3 3 (42.86%) 2G
3 3 (42.86%) 3G
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Designer
1 4 (57.14%) Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Operational Technology
2 3 (42.86%) IoT
2 3 (42.86%) Smartphone
3 2 (28.57%) Driving Licence
4 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Android
1 3 (42.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
1 1 (14.29%) Data Security
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (14.29%) Time Management
1 1 (14.29%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow