4G Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

4G
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 566 600
Rank change year-on-year +106 +34 +217
Permanent jobs citing 4G 6 29 64
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.032% 0.086% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% 0.56% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1 26 36
10th Percentile - £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £36,875 £44,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% -31.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,750 £88,125
90th Percentile - £82,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £25,154 £48,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -48.14% -27.61% +3.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,646 5,190 4,532
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.89% 15.34% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,714 3,333 3,373
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,514
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £76,316
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

4G
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing 4G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

4G trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

4G
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing 4G.

4G salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

4G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) 5G
1 5 (83.33%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) Unified Communications
3 1 (16.67%) 3GPP
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) SCTP
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) gRPC
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) IoT
1 4 (66.67%) NHS
1 4 (66.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Debian
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 4 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 4 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Systems Thinking
2 4 (66.67%) Validation
2 4 (66.67%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Inventory Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) Go
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft