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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 633 798 865
Rank change year-on-year +165 +67 +279
Permanent jobs citing 4G 69 109 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.68% 0.80% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59 79 66
10th Percentile - £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £23,731 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,154 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -48.14% -7.62% -19.23%
75th Percentile £30,000 £57,500 £75,313
90th Percentile £41,185 £67,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £25,154 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -48.14% -3.00% +11.11%

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 10,094 13,581 15,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.08% 13.10% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,436 9,413 7,713
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,625 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for 4G in the UK

4G
Top 8 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 31 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 +130 67 £25,154 -48.14% 53
UK excluding London +136 57 £25,154 -48.14% 37
South East +75 44 £25,154 -44.72% 13
Midlands +69 12 £30,000 -40.00% 5
East Midlands +53 12 £30,000 -7.69% 3
London +111 10 £65,000 +85.71% 20
Work from Home +96 5 - - 22
East of England +29 1 £55,000 +4.76% 5

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 (1.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.94%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (8.70%) Azure
3 2 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.45%) AWS
4 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 54 (78.26%) 5G
2 12 (17.39%) 3G
3 11 (15.94%) ADSL
3 11 (15.94%) TCP/IP
4 6 (8.70%) WAN
5 4 (5.80%) Unified Communications
6 3 (4.35%) DNS
7 2 (2.90%) DHCP
7 2 (2.90%) SAN
7 2 (2.90%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.90%) VPN
7 2 (2.90%) Wireless
8 1 (1.45%) 2G
8 1 (1.45%) 3GPP
8 1 (1.45%) HTTP
8 1 (1.45%) IPsec
8 1 (1.45%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (1.45%) SCTP
8 1 (1.45%) VoIP
8 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) GitLab
1 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 45 (65.22%) Telecoms
2 41 (59.42%) Retail
3 7 (10.14%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Electronics
5 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) IT Support
2 7 (10.14%) Lead
2 7 (10.14%) Support Team Leader
2 7 (10.14%) Team Leader
3 4 (5.80%) IT Support Technician
3 4 (5.80%) IT Technician
3 4 (5.80%) Support Technician
4 3 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (2.90%) Sales Representative
5 2 (2.90%) Security Engineer
5 2 (2.90%) Senior
5 2 (2.90%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (2.90%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 2 (2.90%) Senior Technical Support
5 2 (2.90%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (2.90%) SOC Engineer
5 2 (2.90%) Support Engineer
5 2 (2.90%) Technical Support
5 2 (2.90%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (1.45%) Service Delivery Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.45%) gRPC
1 1 (1.45%) OpenAPI
1 1 (1.45%) REST
1 1 (1.45%) RESTful
1 1 (1.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Driving Licence
2 8 (11.59%) IoT
3 4 (5.80%) NHS
3 4 (5.80%) Operational Technology
4 3 (4.35%) CCTV
5 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.90%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.90%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.29%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.45%) Android
3 1 (1.45%) Debian
3 1 (1.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (62.32%) Customer Service
2 41 (59.42%) Customer Experience
3 5 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (7.25%) Mentoring
3 5 (7.25%) Validation
4 4 (5.80%) Analytics
4 4 (5.80%) Data Science
4 4 (5.80%) Decision-Making
4 4 (5.80%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (5.80%) Systems Thinking
4 4 (5.80%) Verification and Validation
5 2 (2.90%) Agile
5 2 (2.90%) B2B
5 2 (2.90%) B2B Sales
5 2 (2.90%) CRM
5 2 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (2.90%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (2.90%) SDLC
6 1 (1.45%) Network Design
6 1 (1.45%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (1.45%) C++
2 1 (1.45%) Go
2 1 (1.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.45%) CISA
3 1 (1.45%) CISM
3 1 (1.45%) CISSP
3 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (20.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.35%) Meraki
3 2 (2.90%) Cisco
3 2 (2.90%) ConnectWise
3 2 (2.90%) TOWER Software
3 2 (2.90%) Veeam
4 1 (1.45%) EMC
4 1 (1.45%) HP
4 1 (1.45%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.45%) Sophos