5G Contracts in the UK excluding London

5G
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 303 333 386
Rank change year-on-year +30 +53 -51
Contract jobs citing 5G 98 97 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.43% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.98% 2.75% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 55 57
10th Percentile £330 £229 £358
25th Percentile £356 £313 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £438
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.00% +6.06%
75th Percentile £564 £556 £488
90th Percentile £610 £618 £543
UK median daily rate £490 £428 £444
% change year-on-year +14.62% -3.66% +4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £28.65 £52.01 -
25th Percentile £32.63 £52.97 -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £61.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.61% - -
75th Percentile £49.63 £69.62 -
90th Percentile £54.35 £73.44 -
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
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 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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for 5G in the UK excluding London

5G
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for 5G in the UK excluding London

5G
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for 5G in the UK excluding London

5G
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 5G in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for 5G in the UK excluding London

5G
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 5G within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +51 3 £520 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.04%) AWS
1 2 (2.04%) Azure
2 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.02%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 47 (47.96%) 4G
2 36 (36.73%) Radio Access Network
3 26 (26.53%) 3G
4 17 (17.35%) LTE
5 13 (13.27%) Wireshark
6 10 (10.20%) Diameter Protocol
7 9 (9.18%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (8.16%) 2G
8 8 (8.16%) DNS
9 7 (7.14%) VoLTE
10 6 (6.12%) GGSN
10 6 (6.12%) NAS
10 6 (6.12%) RANAP
10 6 (6.12%) SGSN
10 6 (6.12%) Wireless
11 5 (5.10%) Network Security
12 4 (4.08%) GPRS
12 4 (4.08%) SS7
13 3 (3.06%) GSM
13 3 (3.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (4.08%) MySQL
2 1 (1.02%) Big Data
2 1 (1.02%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Git
2 5 (5.10%) JIRA
3 4 (4.08%) gcov
3 4 (4.08%) GDB
3 4 (4.08%) Gradle
3 4 (4.08%) Subversion
4 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (58.16%) Telecoms
2 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.22%) Multimedia
4 8 (8.16%) Finance
5 7 (7.14%) Legal
6 6 (6.12%) Law
6 6 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.04%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Military
9 1 (1.02%) Advertising
9 1 (1.02%) Automotive
9 1 (1.02%) Billing
9 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Local Government
9 1 (1.02%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 14 (14.29%) Lead
2 12 (12.24%) Consultant
2 12 (12.24%) Team Leader
3 10 (10.20%) Telecoms Manager
4 8 (8.16%) Developer
5 7 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 7 (7.14%) Designer
6 6 (6.12%) Network Manager
6 6 (6.12%) Performance Specialist
6 6 (6.12%) Procurement Manager
6 6 (6.12%) Python Developer
6 6 (6.12%) Senior
7 5 (5.10%) Build Manager
7 5 (5.10%) Performance Consultant
7 5 (5.10%) Senior Consultant
7 5 (5.10%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 5 (5.10%) Senior Performance Consultant
8 4 (4.08%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.08%) Technical Design Authority
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (4.08%) JSON
2 1 (1.02%) .NET
2 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.02%) Django
2 1 (1.02%) Flask
2 1 (1.02%) React
2 1 (1.02%) SPML
2 1 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.08%) IoT
3 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.06%) NB-IoT
4 2 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.02%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.02%) NHS
5 1 (1.02%) PKI
5 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Oracle Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.02%) Solaris
3 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (17.35%) Computer Science
2 17 (17.35%) Customer Experience
3 15 (15.31%) Technical Leadership
4 14 (14.29%) Network Architecture
5 13 (13.27%) Capacity Planning
6 12 (12.24%) Performance Management
7 11 (11.22%) Roadmaps
8 10 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (9.18%) Network Design
10 6 (6.12%) Contract Management
10 6 (6.12%) Decision-Making
10 6 (6.12%) Edge Computing
10 6 (6.12%) Line Management
10 6 (6.12%) Performance Improvement
10 6 (6.12%) Statistics
11 5 (5.10%) B2B
11 5 (5.10%) Conflict Resolution
11 5 (5.10%) Software Testing
12 4 (4.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.20%) Python
2 9 (9.18%) C
2 9 (9.18%) C++
3 6 (6.12%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.02%) C#
4 1 (1.02%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Degree
2 17 (17.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.02%) CCSP
4 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.02%) CISSP
4 1 (1.02%) CSPO
4 1 (1.02%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.02%) COBIT
1 1 (1.02%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.02%) PMO
1 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.08%) Ansible
2 4 (4.08%) Grafana
2 4 (4.08%) Prometheus
2 4 (4.08%) Terraform
2 4 (4.08%) yum
3 1 (1.02%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 9 (9.18%) Empirix
1 9 (9.18%) NetScout
2 4 (4.08%) Klocwork
2 4 (4.08%) Oracle
2 4 (4.08%) Perforce
3 3 (3.06%) Cisco
3 3 (3.06%) Ericsson
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.06%) VMware
4 1 (1.02%) Cramer
4 1 (1.02%) Google
4 1 (1.02%) Juniper
4 1 (1.02%) Nokia
4 1 (1.02%) Sparx
4 1 (1.02%) Tellabs