4G Contracts in the Thames Valley

4G
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for 4G skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 4G over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 127 108
Rank change year-on-year +25 -19 -30
Contract jobs citing 4G 30 23 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.14% 0.80% 1.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.59% 4.69% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 18
10th Percentile £300 £280 £364
25th Percentile £350 £313 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £430 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +1.18% +1.49%
75th Percentile £538 £450 £444
90th Percentile £562 £519 £450
South East median daily rate £450 £415 £425
% change year-on-year +8.43% -2.35% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

4G is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 537 490 647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.33% 17.11% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 291 364
10th Percentile £205 £280 £211
25th Percentile £350 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £478
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +2.20% +19.38%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £561
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £486 £453
% change year-on-year +2.83% +7.34% +6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 20
10th Percentile £16.73 £18.50 £12.23
25th Percentile £22.58 £19.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +332.79% -46.96%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.00 £25.15
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -49.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing 4G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for 4G in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 4G in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for 4G in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 4G in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 4G in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 4G in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for 4G in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 4G within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +1 30 £500 +16.28% 9
4G
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (3.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) AWS
1 1 (3.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 25 (83.33%) 5G
2 24 (80.00%) 3G
3 17 (56.67%) Radio Access Network
4 8 (26.67%) 2G
5 7 (23.33%) DNS
5 7 (23.33%) LTE
5 7 (23.33%) VoLTE
6 6 (20.00%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (20.00%) GGSN
6 6 (20.00%) RANAP
6 6 (20.00%) SGSN
6 6 (20.00%) Wireshark
7 5 (16.67%) ATM
7 5 (16.67%) Ethernet
7 5 (16.67%) GPRS
7 5 (16.67%) SDH
8 3 (10.00%) GSM
8 3 (10.00%) SCCP
8 3 (10.00%) SS7
9 2 (6.67%) Broadband
General
1 14 (46.67%) Telecoms
2 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Multimedia
3 6 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Consultant
2 5 (16.67%) Performance Consultant
2 5 (16.67%) Performance Specialist
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 5 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 5 (16.67%) Senior Performance Consultant
3 4 (13.33%) Transmission Planner
4 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Build Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Databuild Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Product Owner
5 1 (3.33%) Provisioning Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms Planner
5 1 (3.33%) Transmission Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Transmission Planning Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) IoT
2 3 (10.00%) NB-IoT
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) PKI
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 10 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
3 7 (23.33%) Performance Management
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
4 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 6 (20.00%) Performance Improvement
4 6 (20.00%) Statistics
4 6 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
5 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 4 (13.33%) Break/Fix
6 4 (13.33%) Performance Analysis
7 3 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
7 3 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (6.67%) B2B
8 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Degree
2 6 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) CCSP
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.33%) CISSP
3 1 (3.33%) CSPO
3 1 (3.33%) HNC
3 1 (3.33%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) COBIT
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Empirix
1 6 (20.00%) NetScout
2 2 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (3.33%) Cramer
3 1 (3.33%) Ericsson
3 1 (3.33%) Mavenir
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Remedy
3 1 (3.33%) Tellabs