Radio Access Network Contracts with Work from Home Options

Radio Access Network (RAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 426 553
Rank change year-on-year +121 +127 -94
Contract jobs citing Radio Access Network 40 31 68
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.60% 1.09% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 9
10th Percentile - £280 £357
25th Percentile £485 £313 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £440 £416
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +5.90% +3.88%
75th Percentile £509 £488 £440
90th Percentile £553 £515 £442
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £432
% change year-on-year +5.56% +4.17% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £68.75 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,538 2,832 4,377
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.46% 11.55% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 1,880 2,971
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £676
UK median daily rate £488 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.93% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 95 105
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.14 £42.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £57.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.52% +21.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +6.94%

Radio Access Network
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Radio Access Network as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Radio Access Network trend for jobs with a WFH option

Radio Access Network
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Radio Access Network.

Radio Access Network daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Radio Access Network.

Radio Access Network hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 (10.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Azure
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (40.00%) 5G
2 14 (35.00%) 4G
3 9 (22.50%) 3G
4 6 (15.00%) LTE
5 4 (10.00%) 2G
5 4 (10.00%) 3GPP
5 4 (10.00%) 5G NR
6 2 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (5.00%) XCAP
7 1 (2.50%) DHCP
7 1 (2.50%) DNS
7 1 (2.50%) FTP
7 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.50%) VPN
7 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (47.50%) QGIS
2 6 (15.00%) GIS
2 6 (15.00%) Power BI
2 6 (15.00%) Tableau
3 1 (2.50%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 11 (27.50%) Telecoms
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) RAN Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Performance Specialist
3 5 (12.50%) Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Performance Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 5 (12.50%) Senior Performance Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Design Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Radio Design Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Radio Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Radio Specialist
5 2 (5.00%) Contracts Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Optimisation Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Performance Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) RAN Performance Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Commercial Manager
6 1 (2.50%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.50%) Django
1 1 (2.50%) Flask
1 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Customer Experience
2 11 (27.50%) Roadmaps
3 7 (17.50%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.00%) Visualisation
5 5 (12.50%) Conflict Resolution
5 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 5 (12.50%) Performance Management
6 4 (10.00%) Analytics
6 4 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (10.00%) Network Architecture
7 2 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
7 2 (5.00%) Contract Management
7 2 (5.00%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (5.00%) Planning and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) BT
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Remedy
3 1 (2.50%) Google