5G Contracts in Reading

5G
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 60 74
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing 5G 30 22 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.59% 2.17% 1.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.71% 12.64% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 9
10th Percentile £503 £253 £244
25th Percentile £506 £429 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £383
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +38.56% +47.12%
75th Percentile £539 £571 £428
90th Percentile £540 £690 £557
Berkshire median daily rate £438 £513 £418
% change year-on-year -14.63% +22.75% -0.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 236 174 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 20.34% 17.18% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 96 120
10th Percentile £205 £335 £171
25th Percentile £350 £429 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +13.68% +26.67%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £589
90th Percentile - £706 £664
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £488 £464
% change year-on-year -2.66% +5.10% +19.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile £77.22 - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £66.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.52% +153.85% -45.26%
75th Percentile £87.53 £73.69 £26.50
90th Percentile - £78.30 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -45.16%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for 5G in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for 5G in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for 5G in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 21 (70.00%) Radio Access Network
2 15 (50.00%) 4G
3 12 (40.00%) 3G
4 11 (36.67%) LTE
5 6 (20.00%) Diameter Protocol
5 6 (20.00%) DNS
5 6 (20.00%) GGSN
5 6 (20.00%) RANAP
5 6 (20.00%) SGSN
5 6 (20.00%) VoLTE
5 6 (20.00%) Wireshark
General
1 20 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Law
2 6 (20.00%) Legal
2 6 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 6 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Telecoms Manager
2 6 (20.00%) Consultant
2 6 (20.00%) Network Manager
2 6 (20.00%) Performance Specialist
2 6 (20.00%) Procurement Manager
3 5 (16.67%) Build Manager
3 5 (16.67%) Performance Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 5 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 5 (16.67%) Senior Performance Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Health and Safety Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) IoT
2 3 (10.00%) NB-IoT
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Customer Experience
2 7 (23.33%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
2 7 (23.33%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (20.00%) Contract Management
3 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (20.00%) Edge Computing
3 6 (20.00%) Line Management
3 6 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 6 (20.00%) Performance Improvement
3 6 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 6 (20.00%) Statistics
4 5 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (6.67%) B2B
6 2 (6.67%) Capacity Management
7 1 (3.33%) Planning and Forecasting
7 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team Management
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Empirix
1 6 (20.00%) NetScout