5G
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for 5G skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 5G over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 557 572
Rank change year-on-year +143 +15 -48
Contract jobs citing 5G 172 148 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.09% 2.02% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 82 118
10th Percentile £363 £225 £293
25th Percentile £420 £314 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% +9.82%
75th Percentile £539 £550 £538
90th Percentile £588 £606 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 2
10th Percentile £24.60 £53.07 £59.80
25th Percentile £25.13 £62.50 £60.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £67.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.48% +7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £48.94 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £62.70 £71.20 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.25 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -61.15% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

5G 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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,566 7,337 9,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 12.36% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,329 4,767 6,321
10th Percentile £205 £241 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 479 357
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% -3.51%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 5G.

Daily rate trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 5G over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 5G in the UK

5G
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 5G.

Hourly rate trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 5G over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for 5G in the UK

5G
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +141 157 £475 +11.76% 73
UK excluding London +90 129 £450 +12.50% 56
Work from Home +117 63 £475 +18.75% 29
South East +23 61 £438 +9.38% 24
London +110 35 £520 +4.00% 16
East of England +39 29 £450 +50.00% 16
North of England +42 17 £365 -21.93% 3
Scotland +45 8 £553 - 3
South West +22 8 £600 +50.00% 6
North West +20 7 £365 -20.65% 1
Midlands +26 6 - - 5
West Midlands +19 6 - - 5
North East - 6 - - 1
Yorkshire +23 4 - - 1

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.07%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.91%) ArcGIS
2 5 (2.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (5.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.30%) IaaS
1 16 (9.30%) PaaS
1 16 (9.30%) SaaS
2 4 (2.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (1.74%) Smartsheet
4 1 (0.58%) AWS
4 1 (0.58%) Azure
4 1 (0.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 82 (47.67%) 4G
2 50 (29.07%) Radio Access Network
3 34 (19.77%) 3G
4 26 (15.12%) Network Security
5 23 (13.37%) Firewall
6 21 (12.21%) LTE
7 19 (11.05%) Broadband
8 16 (9.30%) Wireless
9 15 (8.72%) VPN
10 13 (7.56%) 2G
10 13 (7.56%) BGP
10 13 (7.56%) MPLS
11 10 (5.81%) Diameter Protocol
11 10 (5.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 10 (5.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 10 (5.81%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (5.81%) Wireshark
12 7 (4.07%) VoLTE
13 6 (3.49%) 5G NR
13 6 (3.49%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.91%) GIS
1 5 (2.91%) QGIS
2 4 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.33%) MySQL
2 4 (2.33%) Power BI
2 4 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (15.70%) Git
2 20 (11.63%) JIRA
3 16 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.91%) Postman
5 4 (2.33%) gcov
5 4 (2.33%) GDB
5 4 (2.33%) Gradle
5 4 (2.33%) Subversion
6 3 (1.74%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.74%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.74%) JUnit
7 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 71 (41.28%) Telecoms
2 45 (26.16%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.79%) Law
4 16 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (6.98%) Finance
6 10 (5.81%) Multimedia
7 6 (3.49%) Legal
7 6 (3.49%) Marketing
8 5 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.74%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.74%) Military
11 1 (0.58%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 21 (12.21%) Network Engineer
2 20 (11.63%) Lead
3 17 (9.88%) Penetration Tester
3 17 (9.88%) Tester
4 16 (9.30%) Security Penetration Tester
4 16 (9.30%) Security Specialist
4 16 (9.30%) Security Tester
4 16 (9.30%) Testing Specialist
5 15 (8.72%) Design Engineer
6 14 (8.14%) Developer
7 13 (7.56%) Telecoms Manager
8 12 (6.98%) Consultant
8 12 (6.98%) Project Manager
8 12 (6.98%) Team Leader
9 11 (6.40%) Network Design Engineer
10 10 (5.81%) C++ Developer
11 9 (5.23%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.23%) Senior
12 8 (4.65%) Network Manager
13 7 (4.07%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.30%) Web Services
2 14 (8.14%) JSON
3 11 (6.40%) XML
4 10 (5.81%) NETCONF
4 10 (5.81%) YANG
5 4 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.74%) Apache Camel
6 3 (1.74%) J2EE
6 3 (1.74%) Kafka
6 3 (1.74%) REST
6 3 (1.74%) Spring
6 3 (1.74%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.16%) CSS
7 2 (1.16%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.16%) HTML
7 2 (1.16%) Jest
7 2 (1.16%) Node.js
7 2 (1.16%) Playwright
7 2 (1.16%) React
8 1 (0.58%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.30%) Mobile App
2 8 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.49%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.49%) IoT
4 4 (2.33%) NB-IoT
5 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.58%) PKI
7 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.30%) Linux
2 8 (4.65%) Windows
3 4 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.58%) CentOS
4 1 (0.58%) Solaris
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (13.95%) Customer Experience
3 23 (13.37%) Network Design
4 22 (12.79%) Roadmaps
5 18 (10.47%) Load Balancing
6 17 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (9.88%) Penetration Testing
7 16 (9.30%) Application Security
7 16 (9.30%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 16 (9.30%) OWASP
7 16 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (9.30%) Security Testing
8 15 (8.72%) Agile
9 13 (7.56%) Network Virtualisation
10 11 (6.40%) Capacity Planning
10 11 (6.40%) Network Architecture
11 10 (5.81%) DevOps
11 10 (5.81%) Project Management
12 9 (5.23%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (5.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.77%) Python
2 15 (8.72%) C++
3 8 (4.65%) C
4 4 (2.33%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.74%) Java
5 3 (1.74%) SQL
6 2 (1.16%) Bash
6 2 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.16%) Swift
7 1 (0.58%) C#
7 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (19.19%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.30%) CREST Certified
2 16 (9.30%) GIAC
2 16 (9.30%) GPEN
2 16 (9.30%) OSCP
2 16 (9.30%) SANS
3 13 (7.56%) Degree
4 8 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.49%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.16%) PMP
7 1 (0.58%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) CCIE
7 1 (0.58%) CCNP
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.58%) CSPO
7 1 (0.58%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.88%) NCSC
2 16 (9.30%) GDPR
2 16 (9.30%) PCI DSS
3 8 (4.65%) QA
4 2 (1.16%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.58%) PMO
5 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (5.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.65%) FortiGate
2 7 (4.07%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.33%) Ansible
3 4 (2.33%) Grafana
3 4 (2.33%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.33%) Terraform
3 4 (2.33%) yum
4 3 (1.74%) Iperf
4 3 (1.74%) Kibana
5 1 (0.58%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.58%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (12.79%) Cisco
2 16 (9.30%) Virgin Media
3 14 (8.14%) Juniper
4 13 (7.56%) Nokia
5 10 (5.81%) F5
6 9 (5.23%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.49%) Oracle
7 6 (3.49%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.91%) Empirix
8 5 (2.91%) Microsoft
8 5 (2.91%) NetScout
9 4 (2.33%) Klocwork
9 4 (2.33%) Perforce
10 2 (1.16%) Huawei
10 2 (1.16%) Sparx
11 1 (0.58%) ADVA
11 1 (0.58%) Nokia Networks
11 1 (0.58%) Splunk
11 1 (0.58%) Tellabs
11 1 (0.58%) VMware