5G
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for 5G skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited 5G over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 602 809 803
Rank change year-on-year +207 -6 -166
Permanent jobs citing 5G 125 286 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.54% 1.81% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 47 138 142
10th Percentile £36,640 £37,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £63,750 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +1.59% -19.03%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

5G is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,115 15,817 16,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.07% 12.52% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,389 10,530 11,491
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

5G
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 5G over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for 5G in the UK

5G
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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 +224 102 £58,500 -17.02% 88
UK excluding London +134 90 £55,000 -15.38% 65
Work from Home +178 80 £52,750 -15.60% 34
North of England +148 32 £45,000 -28.00% 4
Yorkshire +84 32 £45,000 -28.00%
South West +88 24 £58,500 +20.00% 14
Midlands +130 17 £65,000 - 4
South East +78 17 £52,500 -32.69% 23
London +271 14 £75,000 +7.14% 25
West Midlands +137 9 £65,000 - 3
East Midlands +52 8 - - 1
East of England - 6 £55,000 - 16
Wales 0 3 £32,350 -48.16%

5G
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 4 (3.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 30 (24.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (13.60%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.80%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 30 (24.00%) Oracle Payables
2 26 (20.80%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (4.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.80%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (4.00%) AWS
3 4 (3.20%) Azure
4 3 (2.40%) IaaS
5 2 (1.60%) SaaS
6 1 (0.80%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 51 (40.80%) WAN
2 45 (36.00%) SD-WAN
3 34 (27.20%) Broadband
4 27 (21.60%) 4G
5 23 (18.40%) TCP/IP
6 20 (16.00%) Wireless
7 11 (8.80%) 3GPP
7 11 (8.80%) Internet
8 10 (8.00%) LAN
9 9 (7.20%) BGP
9 9 (7.20%) LTE
9 9 (7.20%) OSPF
9 9 (7.20%) VoIP
9 9 (7.20%) VPN
9 9 (7.20%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (6.40%) DNS
11 7 (5.60%) 5G NR
11 7 (5.60%) HTTP
12 6 (4.80%) 3G
12 6 (4.80%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.20%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (13.60%) Visual Studio
2 8 (6.40%) LabVIEW
3 5 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.20%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.80%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.80%) JIRA
5 1 (0.80%) PetaLinux
5 1 (0.80%) Subversion
General
1 79 (63.20%) Finance
2 59 (47.20%) Social Skills
3 41 (32.80%) Aerospace
3 41 (32.80%) Retail
4 33 (26.40%) Telecoms
5 32 (25.60%) Legal
6 30 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (21.60%) Law
8 23 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
9 21 (16.80%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (16.00%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (12.80%) Marketing
12 9 (7.20%) Electronics
13 5 (4.00%) Manufacturing
13 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
14 3 (2.40%) Back Office
15 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.80%) Billing
16 1 (0.80%) Dutch Language
16 1 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 34 (27.20%) Analyst
2 25 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
3 23 (18.40%) Senior
4 22 (17.60%) Linux Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) C++ Software Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Software Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Python Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Python Software Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Graduate
8 8 (6.40%) Network Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Product Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Project Manager
8 8 (6.40%) RF Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Verification Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Technical Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (3.20%) JSON
1 4 (3.20%) Kafka
1 4 (3.20%) LAPP Stack
1 4 (3.20%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (3.20%) REST
1 4 (3.20%) RESTful
1 4 (3.20%) Web Services
1 4 (3.20%) XML
2 1 (0.80%) Django
2 1 (0.80%) FastAPI
2 1 (0.80%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 46 (36.80%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (21.60%) GNSS
3 6 (4.80%) FPGA
3 6 (4.80%) Verilog
3 6 (4.80%) VHDL
4 5 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.20%) Tandem
6 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.80%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (0.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.80%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.80%) IoT
8 1 (0.80%) NB-IoT
8 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.80%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 30 (24.00%) Linux
2 16 (12.80%) Windows
3 12 (9.60%) Unix
4 4 (3.20%) Debian
5 1 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.80%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (42.40%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (35.20%) Test Automation
3 41 (32.80%) B2B
3 41 (32.80%) Test Assurance
4 37 (29.60%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (24.80%) Computer Science
5 31 (24.80%) Software Engineering
6 30 (24.00%) Accounts Payable
6 30 (24.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 26 (20.80%) Accounts Receivable
8 24 (19.20%) Validation
9 21 (16.80%) Configuration Management
10 20 (16.00%) Defect Tracking
10 20 (16.00%) Project Delivery
10 20 (16.00%) Project Management
10 20 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
11 19 (15.20%) SDLC
12 15 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (12.00%) Creative Thinking
12 15 (12.00%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 29 (23.20%) Python
2 24 (19.20%) C++
3 12 (9.60%) MATLAB
4 10 (8.00%) Bash
5 9 (7.20%) Perl
6 6 (4.80%) C
7 5 (4.00%) SQL
8 1 (0.80%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.80%) C#
8 1 (0.80%) Go
8 1 (0.80%) Java
8 1 (0.80%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.80%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 80 (64.00%) Degree
2 15 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.60%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.80%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (7.20%) HND
6 7 (5.60%) CISM
6 7 (5.60%) CISSP
7 6 (4.80%) CCNP
8 5 (4.00%) CCNA
8 5 (4.00%) PMP
9 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.40%) CISA
10 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.40%) PhD
11 2 (1.60%) ISACA
12 1 (0.80%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.20%) PMO
2 8 (6.40%) NCSC
3 6 (4.80%) SLA
4 5 (4.00%) NIST
5 4 (3.20%) QA
6 2 (1.60%) COBIT
6 2 (1.60%) COSO
7 1 (0.80%) ECSS
7 1 (0.80%) GRC
7 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.20%) Docker
3 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.80%) KVM
4 1 (0.80%) QEMU
4 1 (0.80%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.40%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 34 (27.20%) Virgin Media
2 30 (24.00%) Oracle
3 15 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.00%) Cisco
5 6 (4.80%) Juniper
5 6 (4.80%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.80%) Xilinx
6 5 (4.00%) SAP
7 4 (3.20%) Rackspace
7 4 (3.20%) VMware
8 3 (2.40%) Aruba
8 3 (2.40%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.40%) Meraki
9 2 (1.60%) BT
9 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.80%) Splunk