5G Contracts in England

5G
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring 5G skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 5G over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 502 552
Rank change year-on-year +85 +50 -67
Contract jobs citing 5G 133 134 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.76% 2.26% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 76 97
10th Percentile £350 £245 £304
25th Percentile £414 £320 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% -4.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £597 £800 £627
UK median daily rate £490 £428 £444
% change year-on-year +14.62% -3.66% +4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £53.81 £52.22 £49.90
25th Percentile £55.78 £53.50 £53.50
Median hourly rate £61.88 £65.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +6.56% +35.56%
75th Percentile £68.28 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.44 £73.59 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year -18.52% +10.66% +35.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

5G falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,823 5,925 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 12.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 3,842 5,326
10th Percentile £213 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £645 £619
90th Percentile £690 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 408 318
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.28 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £72.66 £75.00 £63.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 5G in England

5G
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for 5G in England

5G
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 5G in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 5G in England

5G
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for 5G in England

5G
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East 0 50 £460 +15.00% 17
London +86 35 £490 -2.00% 16
North of England +32 21 £365 -23.44% 5
East of England +12 13 £430 +14.67% 2
North East - 12 - - 2
South West -4 7 £600 +50.00% 3
North West +14 5 £365 -23.44% 2
West Midlands +16 4 - - 6
Midlands +15 4 - - 6
Yorkshire - 4 - - 1
5G
UK

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (7.52%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.76%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.26%) Smartsheet
2 2 (1.50%) AWS
2 2 (1.50%) Azure
3 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (0.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 65 (48.87%) 4G
2 50 (37.59%) Radio Access Network
3 31 (23.31%) 3G
4 24 (18.05%) LTE
5 17 (12.78%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (10.53%) DNS
6 14 (10.53%) Wireshark
7 13 (9.77%) 2G
8 11 (8.27%) Diameter Protocol
9 10 (7.52%) BGP
9 10 (7.52%) Network Security
10 9 (6.77%) Wireless
11 8 (6.02%) TCP/IP
12 7 (5.26%) 5G NR
12 7 (5.26%) NAS
12 7 (5.26%) VoLTE
13 6 (4.51%) GGSN
13 6 (4.51%) HTTP
13 6 (4.51%) RANAP
13 6 (4.51%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.76%) GIS
1 5 (3.76%) QGIS
2 4 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.01%) MySQL
3 1 (0.75%) Big Data
3 1 (0.75%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (12.78%) Git
2 10 (7.52%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.52%) JIRA
3 4 (3.01%) gcov
3 4 (3.01%) GDB
3 4 (3.01%) Gradle
3 4 (3.01%) Subversion
4 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (54.14%) Telecoms
2 21 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.27%) Multimedia
4 10 (7.52%) Finance
5 7 (5.26%) Legal
6 6 (4.51%) Law
6 6 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.76%) Marketing
8 4 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.01%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.26%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.50%) Military
10 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.75%) Advertising
11 1 (0.75%) Billing
11 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (15.04%) Lead
2 13 (9.77%) Consultant
3 12 (9.02%) Team Leader
4 11 (8.27%) Network Engineer
4 11 (8.27%) Telecoms Manager
5 10 (7.52%) Designer
6 8 (6.02%) Design Engineer
6 8 (6.02%) Developer
6 8 (6.02%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.26%) C++ Developer
7 7 (5.26%) QA Leader
8 6 (4.51%) Network Manager
8 6 (4.51%) Performance Specialist
8 6 (4.51%) Procurement Manager
8 6 (4.51%) Python Developer
8 6 (4.51%) Senior
9 5 (3.76%) Build Manager
9 5 (3.76%) Network Design Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (3.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.77%) JSON
2 6 (4.51%) XML
3 5 (3.76%) NETCONF
3 5 (3.76%) YANG
4 4 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.75%) Ajax
5 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET MVC 5
5 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (0.75%) CSS3
5 1 (0.75%) Django
5 1 (0.75%) Flask
5 1 (0.75%) HTML5
5 1 (0.75%) jQuery
5 1 (0.75%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (0.75%) React
5 1 (0.75%) SPML
5 1 (0.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.52%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (4.51%) IoT
3 5 (3.76%) NB-IoT
4 4 (3.01%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) PKI
7 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.53%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Oracle Linux
3 3 (2.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.75%) Solaris
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (16.54%) Customer Experience
2 21 (15.79%) Network Design
2 21 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (12.03%) Computer Science
3 16 (12.03%) Roadmaps
4 15 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
5 14 (10.53%) Network Architecture
6 13 (9.77%) Capacity Planning
6 13 (9.77%) Performance Management
6 13 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (9.02%) Test Automation
8 11 (8.27%) Data Protection
9 10 (7.52%) Load Balancing
10 8 (6.02%) Agile
10 8 (6.02%) Network Management
11 7 (5.26%) Decision-Making
11 7 (5.26%) Project Delivery
11 7 (5.26%) Project Management
11 7 (5.26%) Use Case
12 6 (4.51%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (21.05%) Python
2 12 (9.02%) C++
3 11 (8.27%) C
4 6 (4.51%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.50%) Bash
5 2 (1.50%) Swift
6 1 (0.75%) C#
6 1 (0.75%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.75%) SQL
6 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (16.54%) Degree
2 16 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.75%) CCSP
4 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.75%) CISSP
4 1 (0.75%) CSPO
4 1 (0.75%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) COBIT
2 1 (0.75%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.75%) PMO
2 1 (0.75%) SLA
2 1 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (3.76%) Docker
2 4 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.76%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.01%) Ansible
3 4 (3.01%) Grafana
3 4 (3.01%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.01%) Terraform
3 4 (3.01%) yum
4 3 (2.26%) Iperf
5 1 (0.75%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 10 (7.52%) Empirix
1 10 (7.52%) NetScout
1 10 (7.52%) Nokia
2 9 (6.77%) Ericsson
3 8 (6.02%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.76%) Cisco
4 5 (3.76%) F5
5 4 (3.01%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.01%) Klocwork
5 4 (3.01%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.01%) Oracle
5 4 (3.01%) Perforce
5 4 (3.01%) VMware
6 1 (0.75%) Cramer
6 1 (0.75%) Google
6 1 (0.75%) Juniper
6 1 (0.75%) Sparx
6 1 (0.75%) Tellabs