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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 616 797 883
Rank change year-on-year +181 +86 +189
Permanent jobs citing 4G 76 99 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.10% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.09% 0.73% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 65 71 71
10th Percentile - £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £23,731 £38,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,154 £48,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -48.14% -28.15% +3.85%
75th Percentile £30,000 £60,000 £87,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £25,154 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -48.14% -3.00% +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 6,964 13,635 16,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.38% 13.84% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,270 9,518 8,181
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,063 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% -

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 4G in the UK

4G
Top 9 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 1 May 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 +151 75 £25,154 -48.14% 43
UK excluding London +175 61 £25,154 -48.14% 35
South East +111 44 £25,154 -32.92% 15
London +121 14 £65,000 -10.34% 12
Midlands +87 13 £30,000 -40.00% 5
East Midlands - 12 £30,000 - 1
Work from Home +175 6 £62,500 +13.64% 19
East of England +41 4 £55,000 +4.76% 11
West Midlands +43 1 £40,354 -19.29% 4

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (13.16%) Azure
3 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.32%) AWS
5 1 (1.32%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 57 (75.00%) 5G
2 14 (18.42%) 3G
3 11 (14.47%) TCP/IP
4 10 (13.16%) ADSL
4 10 (13.16%) WAN
5 7 (9.21%) VPN
6 5 (6.58%) DNS
6 5 (6.58%) Wireless
7 4 (5.26%) 2G
7 4 (5.26%) Firewall
7 4 (5.26%) LAN
7 4 (5.26%) Network Security
7 4 (5.26%) Unified Communications
8 3 (3.95%) DHCP
8 3 (3.95%) Internet
8 3 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.63%) SAN
9 2 (2.63%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.32%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (1.32%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) GitLab
1 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.32%) Robot Framework
General
1 45 (59.21%) Telecoms
2 41 (53.95%) Retail
3 9 (11.84%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Electronics
5 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (13.16%) IT Support
2 7 (9.21%) Lead
2 7 (9.21%) Support Team Leader
2 7 (9.21%) Team Leader
3 6 (7.89%) Senior
4 4 (5.26%) Design Engineer
4 4 (5.26%) Hardware Design Engineer
4 4 (5.26%) Hardware Engineer
4 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (3.95%) IT Support Technician
5 3 (3.95%) IT Technician
5 3 (3.95%) Support Engineer
5 3 (3.95%) Support Technician
6 2 (2.63%) Field Engineer
6 2 (2.63%) Senior Support Engineer
6 2 (2.63%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 2 (2.63%) Technical Support
6 2 (2.63%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.32%) gRPC
1 1 (1.32%) OpenAPI
1 1 (1.32%) REST
1 1 (1.32%) RESTful
1 1 (1.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) IoT
2 10 (13.16%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.26%) CCTV
3 4 (5.26%) NHS
3 4 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 4 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.63%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.63%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.68%) Windows
2 5 (6.58%) VMS
3 4 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.32%) Android
5 1 (1.32%) Debian
5 1 (1.32%) Linux
5 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (56.58%) Customer Service
2 41 (53.95%) Customer Experience
3 8 (10.53%) Validation
4 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (6.58%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (6.58%) Mentoring
6 4 (5.26%) Analytics
6 4 (5.26%) Business Continuity
6 4 (5.26%) Data Science
6 4 (5.26%) Decision-Making
6 4 (5.26%) Design for Manufacturing
6 4 (5.26%) Design for Test
6 4 (5.26%) High Availability
6 4 (5.26%) Incident Response
6 4 (5.26%) Inventory Management
6 4 (5.26%) Security Operations
6 4 (5.26%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (5.26%) Systems Thinking
6 4 (5.26%) Verification and Validation
7 3 (3.95%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (1.32%) C++
2 1 (1.32%) Go
2 1 (1.32%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) Degree
2 6 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.26%) CCNA
3 4 (5.26%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.32%) CISA
4 1 (1.32%) CISM
4 1 (1.32%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.32%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.63%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.26%) EMC
3 3 (3.95%) Cisco
3 3 (3.95%) Meraki
4 2 (2.63%) ConnectWise
4 2 (2.63%) NVIDIA
4 2 (2.63%) Sophos
4 2 (2.63%) TOWER Software
4 2 (2.63%) Veeam
5 1 (1.32%) HP
5 1 (1.32%) VMware