5G Contract Job Trends in South Wales

5G
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring 5G skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing 5G 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.25% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Wales median daily rate £500 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 52 55 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 12.78% 20.99% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 35 20
10th Percentile £191 £179 £142
25th Percentile £290 £213 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £325 £356
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -8.77% -28.75%
75th Percentile £469 £434 £588
90th Percentile £575 £470 £668
Wales median daily rate £290 £350 £325
% change year-on-year -17.14% +7.69% -35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 1
10th Percentile £12.52 £25.55 -
25th Percentile £12.82 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £46.41 £37.50 £14.36
Median % change year-on-year +23.76% +161.14% -
75th Percentile £86.88 £43.13 -
90th Percentile £88.75 £50.00 -
Wales median hourly rate £46.41 £37.50 £16.77
% change year-on-year +23.76% +123.68% -

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing 5G relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

5G job vacancy trend in South Wales

5G
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. 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
Newport - 1 £500 -
5G
Wales

5G
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow