Radio Access Network Contracts in the North West

Radio Access Network (RAN)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Radio Access Network skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Radio Access Network over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - 151
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Radio Access Network 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.35% - 0.100%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.25% - 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £359 - -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £486
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.11%
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £449 - -
England median daily rate £425 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

Radio Access Network 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 311 331 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.56% 11.78% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 229 284
10th Percentile £192 £210 £288
25th Percentile £350 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £669 £565
90th Percentile £638 £825 £638
England median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 10
10th Percentile £27.70 £20.93 £15.41
25th Percentile £34.78 £25.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £47.37 £40.44 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% +29.41% +62.34%
75th Percentile £59.17 £46.60 £51.06
90th Percentile £65.76 £50.78 £53.22
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +131.58% -22.00%

Radio Access Network
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Radio Access Network as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Radio Access Network in the North West

Radio Access Network
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Radio Access Network in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Radio Access Network in the North West

Radio Access Network
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Radio Access Network within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Cumbria - 4 £442 - 2
Manchester - 3 £359 -
Radio Access Network
England

Radio Access Network
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (57.14%) 3GPP
1 4 (57.14%) 4G
1 4 (57.14%) 5G
1 4 (57.14%) BGP
1 4 (57.14%) DHCP
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) IPsec
1 4 (57.14%) MPLS
1 4 (57.14%) OSPF
1 4 (57.14%) VLAN
1 4 (57.14%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Designer
1 4 (57.14%) Network Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Network Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Dell