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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 701 875 969
Rank change year-on-year +174 +94 +195
Permanent jobs citing Radio Access Network 5 23 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.023% 0.012%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.062% 0.17% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 3
10th Percentile £46,625 - £69,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £60,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £69,063 £82,500 £90,625
90th Percentile £71,875 £87,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% -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 8,011 13,516 15,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.64% 13.62% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,348 9,426 8,007
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,074 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% -3.23%

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
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Radio Access Network over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Radio Access Network in the UK

Radio Access Network
Top 6 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 11 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 +141 5 £58,750 -21.67% 41
UK excluding London +177 4 £58,750 -2.08% 22
South East +99 3 £50,000 - 14
Work from Home +151 2 £67,500 - 10
London +101 1 - - 23
East of England +39 1 £67,500 -10.00% 1

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 2 (40.00%) 5G
1 2 (40.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (20.00%) 3GPP
2 1 (20.00%) 4G
2 1 (20.00%) Broadband
2 1 (20.00%) GSM
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) LTE
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Broadband
2 1 (20.00%) UMTS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) DSP Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Presales Solution Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior DSP Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) FPGA
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Network Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Presales
2 1 (20.00%) QMS
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (20.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (20.00%) System Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 14001
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 22301
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (20.00%) NEBOSH
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) BT