4G
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring 4G skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited 4G over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 642 789 827
Rank change year-on-year +147 +38 +310
Permanent jobs citing 4G 67 119 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.62% 0.86% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 57 81 62
10th Percentile - £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £23,731 £35,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,154 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.10% -14.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £28,750 £57,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £30,000 £67,500 £87,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £25,154 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -44.10% -10.00% +8.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

4G 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,883 13,857 15,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.26% 12.39% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,992 9,419 7,588
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -6.86% -2.86%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,500 £44,886 £45,000
% change year-on-year -29.82% -0.25% -5.26%

4G
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 4G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 4G in the UK

4G
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 4G.

Salary trend for 4G in the UK

4G
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 4G over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for 4G in the UK

4G
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 4G within the UK over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +125 65 £25,154 -44.10% 135
UK excluding London +141 57 £25,154 -44.10% 97
South East +91 44 £25,154 -39.02% 35
Midlands +104 13 £30,000 -40.00% 8
East Midlands +60 13 £30,000 -7.69% 1
London +116 8 £57,175 +63.36% 40
Work from Home +93 6 - - 64

4G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.97%) Azure
3 1 (1.49%) AWS
3 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 52 (77.61%) 5G
2 12 (17.91%) 3G
2 12 (17.91%) ADSL
2 12 (17.91%) TCP/IP
3 7 (10.45%) WAN
4 5 (7.46%) Unified Communications
5 3 (4.48%) DNS
6 2 (2.99%) DHCP
6 2 (2.99%) SAN
6 2 (2.99%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.49%) 3GPP
7 1 (1.49%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (1.49%) HTTP
7 1 (1.49%) SCTP
7 1 (1.49%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (1.49%) VPN
7 1 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.49%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (1.49%) GitLab
1 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.49%) Robot Framework
General
1 44 (65.67%) Telecoms
2 41 (61.19%) Retail
3 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) IT Support
2 7 (10.45%) Lead
2 7 (10.45%) Support Team Leader
2 7 (10.45%) Team Leader
3 4 (5.97%) IT Support Technician
3 4 (5.97%) IT Technician
3 4 (5.97%) Support Technician
4 3 (4.48%) Support Engineer
4 3 (4.48%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (2.99%) IT Engineer
5 2 (2.99%) Sales Representative
5 2 (2.99%) Senior
5 2 (2.99%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (2.99%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 2 (2.99%) Senior Technical Support
5 2 (2.99%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (2.99%) Technical Support
5 2 (2.99%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (1.49%) Graduate Technical Engineer
6 1 (1.49%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.49%) gRPC
1 1 (1.49%) OpenAPI
1 1 (1.49%) REST
1 1 (1.49%) RESTful
1 1 (1.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Driving Licence
2 8 (11.94%) IoT
3 5 (7.46%) NHS
3 5 (7.46%) Operational Technology
4 3 (4.48%) CCTV
5 2 (2.99%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.39%) Windows
2 2 (2.99%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.49%) Android
3 1 (1.49%) Debian
3 1 (1.49%) Linux
3 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (64.18%) Customer Service
2 41 (61.19%) Customer Experience
3 6 (8.96%) Mentoring
4 5 (7.46%) Analytics
4 5 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (7.46%) Data Science
4 5 (7.46%) Decision-Making
4 5 (7.46%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (7.46%) Systems Thinking
4 5 (7.46%) Validation
4 5 (7.46%) Verification and Validation
5 2 (2.99%) Agile
5 2 (2.99%) B2B
5 2 (2.99%) B2B Sales
5 2 (2.99%) CRM
5 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (1.49%) API Development
6 1 (1.49%) Microservices
6 1 (1.49%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (1.49%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.49%) C++
1 1 (1.49%) Go
1 1 (1.49%) Java
1 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (7.46%) Degree
2 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (4.48%) Meraki
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.99%) Cisco
2 2 (2.99%) ConnectWise
2 2 (2.99%) TOWER Software
2 2 (2.99%) Veeam
3 1 (1.49%) NVIDIA