5G Job Trends in England

5G
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring 5G skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 664 177 427
Rank change year-on-year -487 +250 +239
Permanent jobs citing 5G 54 820 468
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.062% 1.90% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.83% 12.63% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 34 56 81
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £23,731 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £25,154 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.14% -58.08% +26.32%
75th Percentile £100,000 £32,188 £72,500
90th Percentile - £76,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £25,154 £60,000
% change year-on-year +198.16% -58.08% +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

5G falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,480 6,494 11,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.42% 15.02% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,285 3,725 8,004
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,800 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,390 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.50%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing 5G relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

5G job vacancy trend in England

5G
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing 5G.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing 5G

5G
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing 5G in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for 5G in England

5G
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the England region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -202 29 £35,000 +39.14% 18
London -21 14 £85,000 -15.00% 18
South West -80 7 - - 2
North West -7 3 £30,000 -
North of England -42 3 £30,000 -58.62% 1
East of England -162 1 £77,500 +210.00% 3
5G
UK

5G
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (11.11%) SAS
2 2 (3.70%) Apache
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.11%) GitHub
1 6 (11.11%) SaaS
2 5 (9.26%) AWS
3 2 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
3 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (3.70%) AWS IoT
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (3.70%) Serverless
4 1 (1.85%) Azure
4 1 (1.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (48.15%) Broadband
2 16 (29.63%) Wireless
3 12 (22.22%) 4G
4 9 (16.67%) 5G NR
5 7 (12.96%) SD-WAN
5 7 (12.96%) WAN
6 6 (11.11%) 3G
7 3 (5.56%) 2G
7 3 (5.56%) DHCP
7 3 (5.56%) DNS
7 3 (5.56%) Ethernet
7 3 (5.56%) Firewall
7 3 (5.56%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
7 3 (5.56%) TETRA
7 3 (5.56%) VLAN
7 3 (5.56%) VoIP
8 2 (3.70%) Internet
8 2 (3.70%) LTE
9 1 (1.85%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (3.70%) Apache Hudi
1 2 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
1 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.70%) Metadata
1 2 (3.70%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) LabVIEW
General
1 22 (40.74%) Telecoms
2 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Electronics
5 3 (5.56%) Aviation
5 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Retail
6 2 (3.70%) Billing
6 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Account Manager
2 13 (24.07%) Corporate Account Manager
2 13 (24.07%) Internal Account Manager
3 9 (16.67%) Sales Manager
3 9 (16.67%) Technical Manager
3 9 (16.67%) Technical Sales Manager
4 6 (11.11%) Product Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Product Test Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Verification Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Electronics Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Electronics Test Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Data Scientist
7 3 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Junior
7 3 (5.56%) Junior Account Manager
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Business Solution Architect
8 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) pytest
1 6 (11.11%) Streamlit
2 2 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) ASIC
1 9 (16.67%) FPGA
2 6 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.11%) Clustering
2 6 (11.11%) Self-Driving Car
3 5 (9.26%) IoT
4 3 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.70%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.85%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Unix
1 6 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.37%) IT Strategy
1 11 (20.37%) Technology Strategy
2 10 (18.52%) Agile
2 10 (18.52%) Analytics
2 10 (18.52%) Machine Learning
2 10 (18.52%) Validation
3 8 (14.81%) AI
3 8 (14.81%) CRM
4 6 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (11.11%) B2B
4 6 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 6 (11.11%) Data Science
4 6 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
4 6 (11.11%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 6 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
4 6 (11.11%) Predictive Modelling
4 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 6 (11.11%) Time Series Forecasting
4 6 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.78%) Python
2 8 (14.81%) SQL
3 6 (11.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) HND
3 3 (5.56%) CCNA
3 3 (5.56%) CCNP
3 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (1.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (5.56%) Cisco
1 3 (5.56%) Juniper
1 3 (5.56%) MikroTik
1 3 (5.56%) Ubiquiti
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft