5G Jobs in the West Midlands

5G
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring 5G skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited 5G over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 233 275
Rank change year-on-year +61 +42 +5
Permanent jobs citing 5G 24 14 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.54% 0.19% 0.060%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.76% 1.40% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £45,000 -
25th Percentile £77,250 £46,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.18% -8.33% +122.22%
75th Percentile £85,750 £64,063 £65,000
90th Percentile - £70,625 -
England median annual salary £25,154 £62,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -59.75% +47.06% -39.72%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

5G 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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 504 1,000 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.29% 13.81% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 301 829 521
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,910 £25,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,950 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for 5G in the West Midlands

5G
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for 5G in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham +42 22 - - 4
Coventry - 1 £81,500 -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
5G
England

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 22 (91.67%) 3GPP
2 1 (4.17%) Bluetooth
2 1 (4.17%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (4.17%) LTE
2 1 (4.17%) Modbus
2 1 (4.17%) MQTT
2 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
General
1 22 (91.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.17%) Electronics
2 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Automation Specialist
1 9 (37.50%) Senior
1 9 (37.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 9 (37.50%) Tester
2 6 (25.00%) Security Tester
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) IoT
1 2 (8.33%) NB-IoT
2 1 (4.17%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (95.83%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (37.50%) Vulnerability Research
3 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 4 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (16.67%) Refactoring
3 4 (16.67%) SDLC
3 4 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (4.17%) Asset Management
4 1 (4.17%) Data Acquisition
4 1 (4.17%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (4.17%) Decision-Making
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (4.17%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (4.17%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (4.17%) Project Planning
4 1 (4.17%) Software Testing
4 1 (4.17%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Bash
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (95.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
1 1 (4.17%) Puppet
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.17%) VMware