Radio Access Network Contracts in the Thames Valley

Radio Access Network (RAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Radio Access Network skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Radio Access Network over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 114 116
Rank change year-on-year +34 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Radio Access Network 50 31 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.90% 1.08% 1.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.31% 6.35% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 4
10th Percentile - £280 £343
25th Percentile - £281 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £345 £388
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -10.97% +3.33%
75th Percentile £538 £434 £408
90th Percentile £547 £450 £423
South East median daily rate £350 £314 £417
% change year-on-year +11.55% -24.67% +11.07%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

Radio Access Network 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 537 488 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.36% 17.05% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 290 361
10th Percentile £205 £280 £210
25th Percentile £350 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +1.61% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £563
90th Percentile £638 £664 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £481 £453
% change year-on-year +4.05% +6.08% +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% -47.88%

Radio Access Network
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Radio Access Network as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Radio Access Network in the Thames Valley

Radio Access Network
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Radio Access Network in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Radio Access Network in the Thames Valley

Radio Access Network
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Radio Access Network in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Radio Access Network 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 Radio Access Network in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Radio Access Network in the Thames Valley

Radio Access Network
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 Radio Access Network within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +11 50 £350 +1.45% 6
Radio Access Network
South East

Radio Access Network
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 7 (14.00%) Apache
1 7 (14.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (46.00%) 5G
2 17 (34.00%) 4G
3 13 (26.00%) 3G
4 12 (24.00%) LTE
5 7 (14.00%) BGP
5 7 (14.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 7 (14.00%) MPLS
5 7 (14.00%) VPN
6 6 (12.00%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (12.00%) DNS
6 6 (12.00%) GGSN
6 6 (12.00%) RANAP
6 6 (12.00%) SGSN
6 6 (12.00%) VoLTE
6 6 (12.00%) Wireshark
7 2 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (4.00%) XCAP
8 1 (2.00%) ATM
8 1 (2.00%) FTP
8 1 (2.00%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (14.00%) NoSQL
1 7 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) GIS
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) GitLab
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
1 7 (14.00%) Robot Framework
1 7 (14.00%) TestRail
General
1 27 (54.00%) Telecoms
2 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Multimedia
5 5 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Consultant
2 7 (14.00%) Performance Specialist
3 6 (12.00%) Business Consultant
3 6 (12.00%) Network Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Test Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Associate Business Consultant
4 5 (10.00%) Associate Consultant
4 5 (10.00%) Build Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Performance Consultant
4 5 (10.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Performance Consultant
4 5 (10.00%) Telecoms Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Quality Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Telecoms Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Project Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) NETCONF
1 7 (14.00%) REST
1 7 (14.00%) RESTCONF
1 7 (14.00%) SOAP
1 7 (14.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.00%) IoT
2 3 (6.00%) NB-IoT
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) Customer Experience
2 14 (28.00%) Agile
3 9 (18.00%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (16.00%) Network Architecture
4 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
4 8 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (14.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (14.00%) Conflict Resolution
5 7 (14.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (14.00%) Integration Testing
5 7 (14.00%) Performance Management
5 7 (14.00%) Performance Testing
5 7 (14.00%) Regression Testing
5 7 (14.00%) Scrum
5 7 (14.00%) Security Testing
5 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (14.00%) Unit Testing
5 7 (14.00%) Workflow
6 6 (12.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (12.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) Python
1 7 (14.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) SLA
2 4 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Empirix
1 6 (12.00%) NetScout
2 4 (8.00%) BT
3 2 (4.00%) Remedy
4 1 (2.00%) Cisco
4 1 (2.00%) Cramer
4 1 (2.00%) Tellabs