2G Contracts in England

2G
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring 2G skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 2G 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 533 597 656
Rank change year-on-year +64 +59 -109
Contract jobs citing 2G 17 39 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.083% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% 0.66% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 49
10th Percentile £446 £284 £306
25th Percentile £461 £348 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -5.88% -16.67%
75th Percentile £495 £447 £550
90th Percentile £538 £512 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +22.50% -5.88% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

2G 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%

2G
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing 2G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for 2G in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 2G in England.

Daily rate trend for 2G in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 2G in England.

Hourly rate trend for 2G in England

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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 2G 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 +8 11 £460 +2.22% 3
London +76 6 £490 +28.95%
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UK

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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 5 (29.41%) ArcGIS
2 4 (23.53%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) 3G
1 17 (100.00%) 4G
2 13 (76.47%) 5G
3 6 (35.29%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (23.53%) ATM
4 4 (23.53%) Ethernet
4 4 (23.53%) MVNO
4 4 (23.53%) SDH
4 4 (23.53%) Wireshark
5 3 (17.65%) GPRS
5 3 (17.65%) GSM
5 3 (17.65%) SCCP
5 3 (17.65%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) GIS
1 5 (29.41%) QGIS
General
1 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Designer
1 4 (23.53%) Radio Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Transmission Planner
3 2 (11.76%) Telecoms Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Governance Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Planning Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Radio Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Radio Planner
4 1 (5.88%) RF Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Planner
4 1 (5.88%) Transmission Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Transmission Planning Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Data Analysis
1 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
2 4 (23.53%) Break/Fix
2 4 (23.53%) Customer Experience
2 4 (23.53%) Impact Assessments
2 4 (23.53%) Performance Analysis
2 4 (23.53%) Performance Management
2 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (5.88%) Agile
4 1 (5.88%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (5.88%) Change Control
4 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
4 1 (5.88%) Network Planning
4 1 (5.88%) Project Management
4 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
4 1 (5.88%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Empirix
1 4 (23.53%) Ericsson
1 4 (23.53%) NetScout
1 4 (23.53%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft