5G Jobs in the South West

5G
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring 5G skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited 5G over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 210 298
Rank change year-on-year -8 +88 -21
Permanent jobs citing 5G 19 22 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.27% 0.43% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.16% 2.48% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile - £46,250 £44,000
25th Percentile - £53,750 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% +25.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile - £76,250 £56,500
90th Percentile - - £57,400
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £70,500
% change year-on-year - -21.99% +17.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 879 887 1,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.39% 17.31% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 399 632 739
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £77,715 £85,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for 5G in the South West

5G
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 5G in the South West.

Salary trend for 5G in the South West

5G
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the South West region over the 6 months to 23 October 2024. 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
Devon -4 19 £90,000 -
5G
England

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 19 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (21.05%) DNS
2 4 (21.05%) HTTP
2 4 (21.05%) Internet
2 4 (21.05%) SMTP
2 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) LabVIEW
2 4 (21.05%) Subversion
General
1 13 (68.42%) Presentation Skills
2 11 (57.89%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
3 7 (36.84%) Electronics
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) GNSS Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) RF Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Electronics Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Electronics Test Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Firmware Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Product Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Product Test Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Firmware Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Test Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Verification Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) FPGA Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Project Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Software Project Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) GNSS
2 9 (47.37%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (31.58%) FPGA
3 6 (31.58%) MicroBlaze
4 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
4 4 (21.05%) Tandem
5 2 (10.53%) VHDL
6 1 (5.26%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Unix
3 6 (31.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) B2B
1 19 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 19 (100.00%) Test Assurance
1 19 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (47.37%) Project Delivery
3 8 (42.11%) Customer Engagement
3 8 (42.11%) Requirements Gathering
4 6 (31.58%) Signal Processing
5 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
6 4 (21.05%) Bill of Materials
6 4 (21.05%) Digital Signal Processing
6 4 (21.05%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (21.05%) Manual Testing
6 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
6 4 (21.05%) Open Source
6 4 (21.05%) Physics
6 4 (21.05%) Software Architecture
7 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.79%) Creative Thinking
7 3 (15.79%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) C++
3 6 (31.58%) C
3 6 (31.58%) MATLAB
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
4 2 (10.53%) Tcl
4 2 (10.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) HND
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Embedded Firmware
1 6 (31.58%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Altera
1 2 (10.53%) Green Hills
1 2 (10.53%) Motorola
1 2 (10.53%) Xilinx