Radio Access Network Contract Job Trends in the South West

Radio Access Network (RAN)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Radio Access Network skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 117 155
Rank change year-on-year -2 +38 +6
Contract jobs citing Radio Access Network 5 17 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.25% 0.67% 0.032%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.95% 4.75% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 0
10th Percentile £426 £439 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £465 £491 -
England median daily rate £450 £500 £440
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.64% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 256 358 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.94% 14.12% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 207 260
10th Percentile £216 £335 £225
25th Percentile £283 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £650
90th Percentile £663 £675 £702
England median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 25 72
10th Percentile £26.70 £12.05 £46.25
25th Percentile £40.07 - £48.32
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +15.06% -5.60%
75th Percentile £64.63 £75.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £64.85 £81.00 £76.13
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +36.12%

Radio Access Network
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Radio Access Network relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Radio Access Network job vacancy trend in the South West

Radio Access Network
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Radio Access Network.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Radio Access Network

Radio Access Network
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Radio Access Network.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Radio Access Network

Radio Access Network
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Bristol -8 5 £450 - 11
Radio Access Network
England

Radio Access Network
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) 4G
2 3 (60.00%) 3GPP
2 3 (60.00%) LTE
2 3 (60.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (40.00%) 2G
3 2 (40.00%) 5G
General
1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Design Specialist
1 4 (80.00%) Network Specialist
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) NB-IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Network Design
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) Co-Creation
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Actix
1 3 (60.00%) Ericsson
1 3 (60.00%) Nokia
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy