5G Contracts with Work from Home Options

5G
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 309 398 502
Rank change year-on-year +89 +104 -94
Contract jobs citing 5G 32 59 121
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.09% 2.10% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 40
10th Percentile £425 £280 £358
25th Percentile £438 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £400 £455
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -12.09% +7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £561
90th Percentile £635 £578 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £428 £444
% change year-on-year +14.62% -3.66% +4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £53.59 -
25th Percentile - £56.93 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £52.50
90th Percentile - £69.50 -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,531 2,803 4,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,872 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 99 105
10th Percentile £12.53 £19.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.07 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

5G
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

5G trend for jobs with a WFH option

5G
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 5G.

5G daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

5G
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing 5G over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

5G daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

5G
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 5G.

5G hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

5G
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 (12.50%) ArcGIS
2 2 (6.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (9.38%) Smartsheet
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Azure
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (71.88%) 4G
2 16 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
3 10 (31.25%) 3G
4 8 (25.00%) LTE
5 5 (15.63%) 2G
6 4 (12.50%) 3GPP
6 4 (12.50%) 5G NR
6 4 (12.50%) Network Security
7 3 (9.38%) VoIP
8 1 (3.13%) DHCP
8 1 (3.13%) DNS
8 1 (3.13%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (3.13%) MVNO
8 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
8 1 (3.13%) VPN
8 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) GIS
1 4 (12.50%) Power BI
1 4 (12.50%) QGIS
1 4 (12.50%) Tableau
2 1 (3.13%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 11 (34.38%) Telecoms
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Marketing
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Military
6 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.13%) Local Government
6 1 (3.13%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Senior
2 6 (18.75%) Performance Specialist
2 6 (18.75%) Project Manager
3 5 (15.63%) Consultant
3 5 (15.63%) Performance Consultant
3 5 (15.63%) Senior Consultant
3 5 (15.63%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 5 (15.63%) Senior Performance Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Design Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Radio Design Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Radio Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Radio Specialist
5 3 (9.38%) Health and Safety Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Designer
6 2 (6.25%) Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.13%) Django
1 1 (3.13%) Flask
1 1 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
1 1 (3.13%) Housing Association
1 1 (3.13%) IoT
1 1 (3.13%) NHS
1 1 (3.13%) PKI
1 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 8 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 6 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (18.75%) Performance Management
3 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
3 6 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (15.63%) Agile
4 5 (15.63%) Conflict Resolution
4 5 (15.63%) Data Analysis
4 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
4 5 (15.63%) Project Management
5 4 (12.50%) Analytics
5 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (12.50%) Network Architecture
5 4 (12.50%) Scrum
5 4 (12.50%) Visualisation
6 3 (9.38%) Matrix Organization
6 3 (9.38%) Systems Engineering
6 3 (9.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CCIE
4 1 (3.13%) CCNP
4 1 (3.13%) CCSP
4 1 (3.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) COBIT
1 1 (3.13%) Def Stans
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
1 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco
2 1 (3.13%) Empirix
2 1 (3.13%) Ericsson
2 1 (3.13%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) NetScout
2 1 (3.13%) Sparx
2 1 (3.13%) VMware