Radio Access Network Contracts with Work from Home Options

Radio Access Network (RAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 390 555
Rank change year-on-year +88 +165 -52
Contract jobs citing Radio Access Network 29 32 53
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.12% 1.28% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 6
10th Percentile £521 £282 £404
25th Percentile £532 £389 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £431
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -1.45% +7.81%
75th Percentile £588 £473 £440
90th Percentile £613 £541 £442
UK median daily rate £450 £430 £438
% change year-on-year +4.65% -1.71% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.22 £24.50 -
Median hourly rate £48.56 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.24% - -
75th Percentile £51.91 £25.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £48.56 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.24% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,369 2,493 4,449
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.81% 12.27% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,661 3,076
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% - +6.12%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 87 127
10th Percentile £13.66 £18.02 £25.15
25th Percentile £37.50 £21.99 £42.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +35.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.98 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £50.25 £56.49 £41.27
% change year-on-year -11.05% +36.90% +83.40%

Radio Access Network
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Radio Access Network as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Radio Access Network trend for jobs with a WFH option

Radio Access Network
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 Radio Access Network.

Radio Access Network daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 Radio Access Network.

Radio Access Network hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Radio Access Network
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 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) 4G
1 6 (20.69%) 5G
2 4 (13.79%) LTE
3 3 (10.34%) 2G
3 3 (10.34%) 3G
3 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.34%) VPN
4 2 (6.90%) 3GPP
4 2 (6.90%) 5G NR
4 2 (6.90%) Broadband
4 2 (6.90%) Ethernet
4 2 (6.90%) IPsec
4 2 (6.90%) Mobile Broadband
4 2 (6.90%) NaaS
4 2 (6.90%) RTCP
4 2 (6.90%) RTP
4 2 (6.90%) SCTP
4 2 (6.90%) VLAN
5 1 (3.45%) DHCP
5 1 (3.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) QGIS
2 1 (3.45%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Gerrit
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 18 (62.07%) Telecoms
2 8 (27.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) RAN Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Project Delivery Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Protocol Stack Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Communications Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Radio Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Radio Network Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.45%) Django
1 1 (3.45%) Flask
1 1 (3.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Cyberattack
1 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Customer Experience
2 8 (27.59%) Project Delivery
3 6 (20.69%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (17.24%) Budgeting
5 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.90%) Active Listening
7 2 (6.90%) Cost Reduction
7 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (6.90%) Data Architecture
7 2 (6.90%) Information Security
7 2 (6.90%) Microservices
7 2 (6.90%) Network Architecture
7 2 (6.90%) Risk Management
7 2 (6.90%) Software Engineering
7 2 (6.90%) Test Automation
7 2 (6.90%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (6.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) C
1 2 (6.90%) C++
1 2 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) CISM
1 2 (6.90%) CISSP
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) BT
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Ericsson
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Nokia
3 1 (3.45%) Openreach