5G Jobs in the UK excluding London

5G
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for 5G skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited 5G over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 592 673
Rank change year-on-year +80 +81 -94
Permanent jobs citing 5G 260 159 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.67% 1.47% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 72 95 109
10th Percentile £45,000 £22,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -39.72% +30.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £44,000 £70,500
% change year-on-year +36.36% -37.59% +28.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

5G is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,754 10,849 11,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.62% 18.34% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,061 4,721 6,541
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £74,919
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 5G in the UK excluding London

5G
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 5G in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for 5G in the UK excluding London

5G
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing 5G in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for 5G in the UK excluding London

5G
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +81 147 £55,000 +18.28% 19
South West +8 49 £61,500 -10.55% 2
East of England - 41 £65,000 - 14
West Midlands +22 13 £55,000 -21.99% 2
Midlands +2 13 £55,000 -21.99% 2
North of England -12 10 £40,000 -5.88% 8
North West - 4 £40,000 -
Yorkshire +27 3 £27,500 -35.29% 6
North East - 3 £80,000 - 2
5G
UK

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.38%) OrCAD
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (26.54%) Azure
1 69 (26.54%) Entra ID
2 10 (3.85%) GitHub
3 7 (2.69%) SaaS
4 3 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.38%) AWS
5 1 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.38%) GCP
5 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 100 (38.46%) Broadband
2 52 (20.00%) WAN
3 46 (17.69%) 4G
3 46 (17.69%) Wireless
4 37 (14.23%) SD-WAN
5 34 (13.08%) Firewall
5 34 (13.08%) LTE
6 27 (10.38%) Bluetooth
7 25 (9.62%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (8.85%) GSM
8 23 (8.85%) UMTS
9 22 (8.46%) ISDN
9 22 (8.46%) PSTN
10 17 (6.54%) VPN
11 15 (5.77%) MPLS
12 11 (4.23%) DHCP
12 11 (4.23%) DNS
13 8 (3.08%) 3GPP
13 8 (3.08%) Radio Access Network
13 8 (3.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (9.23%) LabVIEW
2 14 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.00%) Git
4 11 (4.23%) JIRA
5 10 (3.85%) Trac
6 4 (1.54%) GCC
7 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (48.08%) Analytical Skills
2 119 (45.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 97 (37.31%) Telecoms
4 86 (33.08%) Social Skills
5 43 (16.54%) Finance
6 32 (12.31%) Marketing
7 28 (10.77%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (9.23%) Electronics
9 12 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.85%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.31%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.92%) Legal
13 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.77%) Retail
15 1 (0.38%) Automotive
15 1 (0.38%) Avionics
15 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Military
15 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 72 (27.69%) Technical Specialist
2 67 (25.77%) Linux Specialist
3 63 (24.23%) Senior
4 38 (14.62%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 38 (14.62%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 38 (14.62%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 38 (14.62%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 18 (6.92%) Lead
5 18 (6.92%) RF Engineer
6 16 (6.15%) GNSS Engineer
6 16 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.77%) Developer
7 15 (5.77%) Hardware Engineer
8 14 (5.38%) Senior Manager
8 14 (5.38%) Systems Engineer
9 12 (4.62%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.62%) Technical Leader
10 11 (4.23%) Project Leader
10 11 (4.23%) Technical Project Leader
11 10 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.31%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.77%) Middleware
4 1 (0.38%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 67 (25.77%) Social Media
2 22 (8.46%) Acoustics
2 22 (8.46%) Satnav
3 21 (8.08%) IoT
4 18 (6.92%) GNSS
4 18 (6.92%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (6.15%) Driving Licence
6 12 (4.62%) FPGA
7 11 (4.23%) Robotics
8 10 (3.85%) Management Information System
9 9 (3.46%) ARM Cortex
9 9 (3.46%) VHDL
10 8 (3.08%) MicroBlaze
11 6 (2.31%) Device Driver
11 6 (2.31%) PCIe
12 5 (1.92%) Fibre Optics
13 4 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
14 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
14 3 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 3 (1.15%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 106 (40.77%) Linux
2 67 (25.77%) Ubuntu
3 24 (9.23%) Windows
4 11 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.08%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.77%) Unix
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (29.62%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (25.77%) Artificial Intelligence
3 67 (25.77%) CRM
3 67 (25.77%) IT Strategy
3 67 (25.77%) Technology Strategy
4 62 (23.85%) Test Automation
5 45 (17.31%) B2B
6 40 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 39 (15.00%) Project Management
8 37 (14.23%) Data Management
8 37 (14.23%) Test Assurance
9 35 (13.46%) Project Delivery
10 32 (12.31%) Agile
10 32 (12.31%) Validation
11 27 (10.38%) Knowledge Transfer
11 27 (10.38%) Market Research
11 27 (10.38%) Matrix Organization
11 27 (10.38%) Storytelling
11 27 (10.38%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 68 (26.15%) Bash
2 44 (16.92%) Python
3 21 (8.08%) C++
4 17 (6.54%) C
5 14 (5.38%) MATLAB
6 10 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.46%) Perl
7 9 (3.46%) Tcl
8 8 (3.08%) VB
9 6 (2.31%) Assembly Language
10 3 (1.15%) C#
11 1 (0.38%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.38%) Ruby
11 1 (0.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (33.85%) Degree
2 40 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.38%) Master's Degree
3 27 (10.38%) MBA
4 22 (8.46%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.46%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.77%) HND
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (4.62%) PMO
3 9 (3.46%) COSHH
3 9 (3.46%) GDPR
4 6 (2.31%) QA
5 4 (1.54%) NCSC
6 3 (1.15%) JTAG
7 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (29.62%) Active Directory
2 31 (11.92%) Hyper-V
3 16 (6.15%) pfSense
3 16 (6.15%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (5.77%) Embedded Firmware
4 15 (5.77%) Firmware
5 12 (4.62%) Docker
6 10 (3.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 67 (25.77%) Jamf Pro
1 67 (25.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (6.15%) Grafana
2 16 (6.15%) ZABBIX
3 15 (5.77%) FortiGate
4 10 (3.85%) Ansible
4 10 (3.85%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 10 (3.85%) SCDPM
5 4 (1.54%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.38%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 78 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 67 (25.77%) CyberArk
2 67 (25.77%) Tanium
3 32 (12.31%) Virgin Media
4 17 (6.54%) Fortinet
4 17 (6.54%) Juniper
5 16 (6.15%) Cisco
5 16 (6.15%) VMware
6 15 (5.77%) Darktrace
6 15 (5.77%) HP
6 15 (5.77%) NEC
7 10 (3.85%) McAfee
7 10 (3.85%) Veeam
8 9 (3.46%) Mitel
8 9 (3.46%) Ribbon
8 9 (3.46%) Xilinx
9 8 (3.08%) Altera
9 8 (3.08%) Green Hills
9 8 (3.08%) Motorola
10 6 (2.31%) Oracle