Radio Access Network Jobs

Radio Access Network (RAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Radio Access Network skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Radio Access Network over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 705 891 920
Rank change year-on-year +186 +29 +315
Permanent jobs citing Radio Access Network 2 26 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.024% 0.008%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.019% 0.19% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 1 15 3
10th Percentile - - £69,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £90,625
90th Percentile - £87,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +5.66%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Radio Access Network 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 10,526 13,859 15,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.79% 12.58% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,712 9,427 7,609
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £47,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% -6.86% -2.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £70,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £44,943 £45,000
% change year-on-year -27.69% -0.13% -5.26%

Radio Access Network
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Radio Access Network as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Radio Access Network in the UK

Radio Access Network
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Radio Access Network.

Salary trend for Radio Access Network in the UK

Radio Access Network
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Radio Access Network within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
UK excluding London +174 2 £67,500 +12.50% 26
England +156 2 £67,500 -10.00% 39
Work from Home +139 1 £67,500 - 18
South East +93 1 - - 17
East of England +43 1 £67,500 -10.00%

Radio Access Network
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) GSM
1 1 (50.00%) LTE
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (50.00%) UMTS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) DSP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DSP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Python