5G Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

5G
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 344 551
Rank change year-on-year -56 +207 +238
Permanent jobs citing 5G 47 270 116
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.80% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.22% 5.17% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4 27 68
10th Percentile - £52,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £55,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year - +54.26% -33.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,625 £70,000
90th Percentile - £83,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £25,154 £62,500 £42,750
% change year-on-year -59.75% +46.20% -39.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,868 5,223 4,605
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.20% 15.45% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,657 3,368 3,434
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,316
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

5G
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

5G trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

5G
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing 5G.

5G salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

5G
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Blender
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) GitHub
2 4 (8.51%) GCP
3 1 (2.13%) AWS
3 1 (2.13%) Azure
3 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (48.94%) 3GPP
2 20 (42.55%) WAN
3 16 (34.04%) SD-WAN
4 5 (10.64%) 4G
4 5 (10.64%) HTTP
5 4 (8.51%) Broadband
5 4 (8.51%) DNS
5 4 (8.51%) Internet
5 4 (8.51%) SMTP
5 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
5 4 (8.51%) Unified Communications
5 4 (8.51%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.13%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (2.13%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Git
1 8 (17.02%) Visual Studio
2 4 (8.51%) JIRA
2 4 (8.51%) Subversion
3 1 (2.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 24 (51.06%) Telecoms
2 9 (19.15%) Marketing
3 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Back Office
5 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Military
7 1 (2.13%) Automotive
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Senior
2 9 (19.15%) Automation Specialist
2 9 (19.15%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 9 (19.15%) Software Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Tester
3 8 (17.02%) C Software Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) C++ Software Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Embedded C Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Embedded Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Security Tester
5 5 (10.64%) Development Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Firmware Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Real Time Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Development Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) gRPC
1 1 (2.13%) OpenAPI
1 1 (2.13%) REST
1 1 (2.13%) RESTful
1 1 (2.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Self-Driving Car
2 15 (31.91%) GNSS
3 6 (12.77%) Algorithms
3 6 (12.77%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.51%) FPGA
4 4 (8.51%) IoT
4 4 (8.51%) MicroBlaze
4 4 (8.51%) NHS
4 4 (8.51%) Operational Technology
4 4 (8.51%) Tandem
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) Unix
2 4 (8.51%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Debian
3 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (36.17%) Test Automation
3 16 (34.04%) B2B
4 14 (29.79%) SDLC
4 14 (29.79%) Validation
5 13 (27.66%) Test Assurance
6 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
7 9 (19.15%) Product Marketing
7 9 (19.15%) Vulnerability Research
8 8 (17.02%) Configuration Management
8 8 (17.02%) Defect Tracking
8 8 (17.02%) Digital Signal Processing
8 8 (17.02%) Mentoring
8 8 (17.02%) Multithreading
8 8 (17.02%) Requirements Analysis
8 8 (17.02%) Signal Processing
8 8 (17.02%) Software Architecture
8 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
9 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.77%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) C++
3 12 (25.53%) C
4 8 (17.02%) Bash
5 4 (8.51%) MATLAB
5 4 (8.51%) Perl
5 4 (8.51%) SQL
6 1 (2.13%) Go
6 1 (2.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (42.55%) Degree
2 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (46.81%) NCSC
2 8 (17.02%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (8.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Intel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft