5G Contracts in the Thames Valley

5G
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 70 85
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 +12
DemandTrendContract jobs citing 5G 11 55 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.67% 2.43% 2.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.37% 14.75% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 38
10th Percentile £378 £315 £309
25th Percentile £400 £400 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £423
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +18.34% -2.31%
75th Percentile £525 £540 £514
90th Percentile £552 £586 £678
South East median daily rate £388 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -3.13% - -7.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £25.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £25.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 373 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.24% 16.46% 18.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 181 310
10th Percentile £293 £281 £205
25th Percentile £375 £406 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.05% +0.12%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £669
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.81% -0.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 19
10th Percentile - £39.42 £16.60
25th Percentile £14.20 £62.81 £19.75
Median hourly rate £18.05 £75.24 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.01% +14.00% +300.00%
75th Percentile £84.66 £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile £89.63 - £76.28
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £58.91
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.64% +30.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for 5G in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing 5G.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing 5G

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 5G in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 5G in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing 5G.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing 5G

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -25 11 £420 -16.00% 15
5G
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (18.18%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) 4G
2 4 (36.36%) MPLS
2 4 (36.36%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (36.36%) VoIP
3 3 (27.27%) Diameter Protocol
3 3 (27.27%) DOCSIS
3 3 (27.27%) GPON
3 3 (27.27%) LTE
3 3 (27.27%) VoLTE
3 3 (27.27%) VoWiFi
3 3 (27.27%) xDSL
4 2 (18.18%) 2G
4 2 (18.18%) 3G
4 2 (18.18%) Converged Networks
4 2 (18.18%) SIGTRAN
4 2 (18.18%) SMS
4 2 (18.18%) SS7
4 2 (18.18%) Wireless
4 2 (18.18%) Wireshark
5 1 (9.09%) 3GPP
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 9 (81.82%) Telecoms
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) OSS Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Network Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Radio Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Radio Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) TM Forum
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) eTOM
3 3 (27.27%) Fault Management
3 3 (27.27%) Inventory Management
3 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Network Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Project Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
4 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
2 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
2 2 (18.18%) PMP
2 2 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) OASIS TOSCA
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Ericsson
2 3 (27.27%) Huawei
2 3 (27.27%) Nokia
3 2 (18.18%) Amdocs
3 2 (18.18%) NetCracker
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft