5G Contracts

5G
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for 5G skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 5G over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 543 579
Rank change year-on-year +114 +36 -61
Contract jobs citing 5G 146 139 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.69% 1.95% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 75 105
10th Percentile £350 £229 £300
25th Percentile £410 £320 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £430 £438
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% -1.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £519
90th Percentile £599 £800 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £425 £428
% change year-on-year +3.53% -0.58% +6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £31.30 £52.43 £49.90
25th Percentile £39.25 £55.75 £53.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +10.66% +35.56%
75th Percentile £64.69 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £73.00 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £61.00 -
% change year-on-year -33.61% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

5G
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 5G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 5G.

Daily rate trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 5G over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 5G in the UK

5G
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 5G.

Hourly rate trend for 5G in the UK

5G
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 5G over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for 5G in the UK

5G
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +93 135 £490 +8.89% 57
UK excluding London +49 101 £440 +3.53% 37
South East 0 46 £500 +25.00% 18
Work from Home +95 37 £490 +22.50% 20
London +96 34 £490 -2.00% 18
North of England +37 21 £345 -29.01% 6
East of England +16 17 £430 +14.67% 4
North East - 11 - - 2
South West +2 9 £600 +50.00% 2
North West +21 6 £345 -27.64% 1
Midlands +22 5 - - 2
West Midlands +13 5 - - 1
Yorkshire +21 4 - - 3
Scotland +39 3 £520 - 4

5G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (4.79%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.42%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 11 (7.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.74%) Power Platform
2 3 (2.05%) Smartsheet
3 2 (1.37%) AWS
3 2 (1.37%) Azure
4 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.68%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 75 (51.37%) 4G
2 54 (36.99%) Radio Access Network
3 31 (21.23%) 3G
4 29 (19.86%) LTE
5 16 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (9.59%) Network Security
7 13 (8.90%) DNS
8 12 (8.22%) Diameter Protocol
8 12 (8.22%) Wireless
9 11 (7.53%) 2G
9 11 (7.53%) Wireshark
10 10 (6.85%) 5G NR
11 9 (6.16%) BGP
11 9 (6.16%) Firewall
11 9 (6.16%) TCP/IP
12 8 (5.48%) VoLTE
13 7 (4.79%) 3GPP
13 7 (4.79%) NAS
14 6 (4.11%) GGSN
14 6 (4.11%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.42%) GIS
1 5 (3.42%) QGIS
2 4 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.74%) MySQL
2 4 (2.74%) Power BI
2 4 (2.74%) Tableau
3 1 (0.68%) Big Data
3 1 (0.68%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 18 (12.33%) Git
2 12 (8.22%) JIRA
3 11 (7.53%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.74%) gcov
4 4 (2.74%) GDB
4 4 (2.74%) Gradle
4 4 (2.74%) Subversion
5 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (51.37%) Telecoms
2 28 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.22%) Finance
4 11 (7.53%) Multimedia
5 7 (4.79%) Legal
6 6 (4.11%) Law
6 6 (4.11%) Marketing
6 6 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.05%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.05%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.05%) Military
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Automotive
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 21 (14.38%) Lead
2 13 (8.90%) Consultant
2 13 (8.90%) Network Engineer
3 12 (8.22%) Design Engineer
3 12 (8.22%) Team Leader
4 11 (7.53%) Telecoms Manager
5 10 (6.85%) Developer
6 9 (6.16%) Project Manager
7 8 (5.48%) C++ Developer
8 7 (4.79%) Python Developer
8 7 (4.79%) QA Leader
8 7 (4.79%) Senior
9 6 (4.11%) Network Design Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) Network Manager
9 6 (4.11%) Performance Specialist
9 6 (4.11%) Procurement Manager
10 5 (3.42%) Build Manager
10 5 (3.42%) Senior Consultant
10 5 (3.42%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 5 (3.42%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.16%) JSON
2 6 (4.11%) XML
3 5 (3.42%) NETCONF
3 5 (3.42%) YANG
4 4 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.68%) .NET
5 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.68%) Django
5 1 (0.68%) Flask
5 1 (0.68%) React
5 1 (0.68%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.85%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (4.79%) IoT
3 6 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.42%) NB-IoT
5 4 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.37%) PKI
8 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.68%) NHS
8 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.27%) Linux
2 6 (4.11%) Windows
3 4 (2.74%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.68%) CentOS
4 1 (0.68%) Solaris
4 1 (0.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (16.44%) Customer Experience
2 22 (15.07%) Network Design
3 19 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (13.01%) Roadmaps
4 17 (11.64%) Network Architecture
5 14 (9.59%) Computer Science
5 14 (9.59%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (8.90%) Capacity Planning
7 12 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (7.53%) Data Protection
8 11 (7.53%) Load Balancing
8 11 (7.53%) Test Automation
9 9 (6.16%) Performance Management
10 8 (5.48%) Project Delivery
10 8 (5.48%) Project Management
11 7 (4.79%) Agile
11 7 (4.79%) Data Analysis
11 7 (4.79%) Decision-Making
11 7 (4.79%) Systems Engineering
11 7 (4.79%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.49%) Python
2 13 (8.90%) C++
3 9 (6.16%) C
4 4 (2.74%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.37%) Bash
5 2 (1.37%) Swift
6 1 (0.68%) C#
6 1 (0.68%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 20 (13.70%) Degree
2 14 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.68%) CCIE
6 1 (0.68%) CCNP
6 1 (0.68%) CCSP
6 1 (0.68%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) CSPO
6 1 (0.68%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) QA
2 2 (1.37%) SLA
3 1 (0.68%) COBIT
3 1 (0.68%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) NCSC
3 1 (0.68%) PMO
3 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (4.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.42%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.74%) Ansible
3 4 (2.74%) Grafana
3 4 (2.74%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.74%) Terraform
3 4 (2.74%) yum
4 3 (2.05%) Iperf
5 1 (0.68%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.68%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (6.16%) Cisco
1 9 (6.16%) Nokia
2 7 (4.79%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.11%) Empirix
3 6 (4.11%) NetScout
4 5 (3.42%) F5
4 5 (3.42%) Fortinet
4 5 (3.42%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.74%) Ericsson
5 4 (2.74%) Juniper
5 4 (2.74%) Klocwork
5 4 (2.74%) Oracle
5 4 (2.74%) Perforce
6 2 (1.37%) Sparx
7 1 (0.68%) Cramer
7 1 (0.68%) Google
7 1 (0.68%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) Tellabs