Radio Access Network Contracts in the UK excluding London

Radio Access Network (RAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Radio Access Network skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Radio Access Network 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 300 373 393
Rank change year-on-year +73 +20 -12
Contract jobs citing Radio Access Network 101 57 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.25% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.07% 1.61% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 29
10th Percentile - £228 £347
25th Percentile £350 £280 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £325 £425
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -23.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £430 £468
90th Percentile £554 £453 £488
UK median daily rate £475 £423 £433
% change year-on-year +12.43% -2.42% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £59.65 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year -7.41% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Radio Access Network 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%

Radio Access Network
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Radio Access Network as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Radio Access Network in the UK excluding London

Radio Access Network
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Radio Access Network in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Radio Access Network in the UK excluding London

Radio Access Network
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Radio Access Network in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Radio Access Network in the UK excluding London

Radio Access Network
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Radio Access Network in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Radio Access Network in the UK excluding London

Radio Access Network
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 Radio Access Network 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 +18 52 £387 +19.08% 13
South West - 28 £575 - 1
East of England - 18 £428 - 2
North of England +15 2 £365 -24.90%
Scotland +49 1 £365 -
North West +12 1 £365 -24.90%
North East - 1 - -
Radio Access Network
UK

Radio Access Network
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 6 (5.94%) Apache
1 6 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.99%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.98%) Power Platform
2 1 (0.99%) AWS
2 1 (0.99%) Azure
2 1 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (0.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (35.64%) 4G
1 36 (35.64%) 5G
2 25 (24.75%) LTE
3 22 (21.78%) Wireshark
4 18 (17.82%) 3G
5 14 (13.86%) Wireless
6 12 (11.88%) 3GPP
7 7 (6.93%) DNS
7 7 (6.93%) Software-Defined Radio
7 7 (6.93%) VPN
8 6 (5.94%) BGP
8 6 (5.94%) Diameter Protocol
8 6 (5.94%) Ethernet VPN
8 6 (5.94%) GGSN
8 6 (5.94%) MPLS
8 6 (5.94%) RANAP
8 6 (5.94%) SGSN
8 6 (5.94%) VoLTE
9 5 (4.95%) NAS
10 2 (1.98%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.85%) QGIS
2 6 (5.94%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.94%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.98%) GIS
3 2 (1.98%) Power BI
3 2 (1.98%) Tableau
4 1 (0.99%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 10 (9.90%) JIRA
2 6 (5.94%) GitLab
2 6 (5.94%) Robot Framework
2 6 (5.94%) TestRail
3 5 (4.95%) Git
4 4 (3.96%) gcov
4 4 (3.96%) GDB
4 4 (3.96%) Gradle
4 4 (3.96%) Subversion
General
1 47 (46.53%) Telecoms
2 18 (17.82%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Multimedia
4 10 (9.90%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (20.79%) RAN Engineer
2 15 (14.85%) Consultant
3 8 (7.92%) Developer
4 7 (6.93%) Architect
4 7 (6.93%) C++ Developer
4 7 (6.93%) Performance Specialist
4 7 (6.93%) Software Architect
5 6 (5.94%) Business Consultant
5 6 (5.94%) Python Developer
6 5 (4.95%) Associate Business Consultant
6 5 (4.95%) Associate Consultant
6 5 (4.95%) Build Manager
6 5 (4.95%) Network Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Performance Consultant
6 5 (4.95%) Senior
6 5 (4.95%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (4.95%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (4.95%) Senior Performance Consultant
6 5 (4.95%) Telecoms Manager
6 5 (4.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.94%) NETCONF
1 6 (5.94%) REST
1 6 (5.94%) RESTCONF
1 6 (5.94%) SOAP
1 6 (5.94%) YANG
2 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.99%) Django
2 1 (0.99%) Flask
2 1 (0.99%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.96%) Driving Licence
2 3 (2.97%) IoT
2 3 (2.97%) NB-IoT
3 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (18.81%) Project Management
2 16 (15.84%) Customer Experience
3 15 (14.85%) Agile
4 12 (11.88%) High Availability
4 12 (11.88%) Network Design
5 11 (10.89%) Capacity Planning
6 9 (8.91%) Performance Management
6 9 (8.91%) Roadmaps
7 8 (7.92%) Network Architecture
7 8 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (6.93%) CI/CD
8 7 (6.93%) Conflict Resolution
8 7 (6.93%) Containerisation
8 7 (6.93%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (6.93%) Scrum
8 7 (6.93%) Test Automation
9 6 (5.94%) Computer Science
9 6 (5.94%) Decision-Making
9 6 (5.94%) Performance Testing
9 6 (5.94%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.82%) Python
2 11 (10.89%) C++
3 6 (5.94%) SQL
4 4 (3.96%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (6.93%) Degree
2 6 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.99%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) SLA
2 4 (3.96%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (12.87%) Ericsson
1 13 (12.87%) Huawei
1 13 (12.87%) Nokia
2 12 (11.88%) Actix
3 6 (5.94%) Empirix
3 6 (5.94%) NetScout
4 4 (3.96%) BT
4 4 (3.96%) Klocwork
4 4 (3.96%) Perforce
5 2 (1.98%) Remedy
6 1 (0.99%) Cisco
6 1 (0.99%) Cramer
6 1 (0.99%) Google
6 1 (0.99%) Tellabs