Radio Access Network Contracts

Radio Access Network (RAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Radio Access Network skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Radio Access Network 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 447 599 688
Rank change year-on-year +152 +89 -53
Contract jobs citing Radio Access Network 128 83 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.36% 1.17% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 45 42
10th Percentile £350 £242 £350
25th Percentile £363 £300 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £427 £432
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% -1.16% +8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £488
90th Percentile £540 £550 £579
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £325 £425
% change year-on-year +31.54% -23.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £59.65 £63.25 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £69.38 -
90th Percentile - £69.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Radio Access Network 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%

Radio Access Network
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Radio Access Network as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Radio Access Network in the UK

Radio Access Network
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Radio Access Network.

Daily rate trend for Radio Access Network in the UK

Radio Access Network
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Radio Access Network over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Radio Access Network in the UK

Radio Access Network
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Radio Access Network.

Hourly rate trend for Radio Access Network in the UK

Radio Access Network
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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 +131 122 £475 +10.85% 23
UK excluding London +91 103 £428 +31.54% 13
South East +20 52 £350 +11.55% 10
Work from Home +123 40 £495 +15.12% 8
South West - 28 £575 - 1
East of England - 19 £430 - 3
London +89 17 £490 -2.00% 6
North of England +21 2 £365 -24.90%
Scotland +37 1 £365 -
Midlands +22 1 £500 +66.67%
North West +18 1 £365 -24.90%
West Midlands +13 1 £500 +66.67%
North East - 1 - -

Radio Access Network
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 8 (6.25%) Apache
1 8 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.91%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (7.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (0.78%) AWS
2 1 (0.78%) Azure
2 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (0.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 55 (42.97%) 4G
2 54 (42.19%) 5G
3 34 (26.56%) LTE
4 24 (18.75%) Wireshark
5 22 (17.19%) 3G
6 19 (14.84%) 3GPP
7 14 (10.94%) Wireless
8 13 (10.16%) DNS
9 12 (9.38%) BGP
10 9 (7.03%) VPN
11 8 (6.25%) 5G NR
11 8 (6.25%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (6.25%) MPLS
11 8 (6.25%) TCP/IP
12 7 (5.47%) Software-Defined Radio
13 6 (4.69%) Diameter Protocol
13 6 (4.69%) GGSN
13 6 (4.69%) RANAP
13 6 (4.69%) SGSN
13 6 (4.69%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.63%) QGIS
2 8 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 8 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.47%) GIS
4 6 (4.69%) Power BI
4 6 (4.69%) Tableau
5 1 (0.78%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (9.38%) JIRA
2 8 (6.25%) GitLab
2 8 (6.25%) Robot Framework
2 8 (6.25%) TestRail
3 5 (3.91%) Git
4 4 (3.13%) gcov
4 4 (3.13%) GDB
4 4 (3.13%) Gradle
4 4 (3.13%) Subversion
General
1 64 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 20 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.59%) Multimedia
4 10 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.34%) Finance
7 3 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (18.75%) RAN Engineer
2 17 (13.28%) Consultant
3 11 (8.59%) Network Engineer
4 9 (7.03%) Developer
5 8 (6.25%) Architect
5 8 (6.25%) C++ Developer
6 7 (5.47%) Design Engineer
6 7 (5.47%) Performance Specialist
6 7 (5.47%) Python Developer
6 7 (5.47%) Software Architect
7 6 (4.69%) Analyst
7 6 (4.69%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.69%) Business Consultant
7 6 (4.69%) Telecoms Manager
7 6 (4.69%) Test Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Build Manager
8 5 (3.91%) Radio Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) RF Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Senior Consultant
8 5 (3.91%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.81%) NETCONF
2 8 (6.25%) REST
2 8 (6.25%) RESTCONF
2 8 (6.25%) SOAP
2 8 (6.25%) YANG
3 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.78%) Django
3 1 (0.78%) Flask
3 1 (0.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.91%) IoT
1 5 (3.91%) NB-IoT
2 4 (3.13%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.47%) Linux
2 2 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (15.63%) Customer Experience
2 18 (14.06%) Agile
2 18 (14.06%) Project Management
3 17 (13.28%) Network Design
4 13 (10.16%) Roadmaps
5 12 (9.38%) High Availability
5 12 (9.38%) Network Architecture
6 11 (8.59%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (7.81%) Integration Testing
8 9 (7.03%) CI/CD
8 9 (7.03%) Containerisation
8 9 (7.03%) Performance Management
8 9 (7.03%) Scrum
8 9 (7.03%) Test Automation
9 8 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (6.25%) Performance Testing
9 8 (6.25%) Regression Testing
9 8 (6.25%) Security Testing
9 8 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (6.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (21.88%) Python
2 12 (9.38%) C++
3 8 (6.25%) SQL
4 4 (3.13%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (5.47%) Degree
2 6 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.56%) CCNA
3 2 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.69%) SLA
2 4 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 9 (7.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.56%) Ansible
1 2 (1.56%) Nmap
1 2 (1.56%) OpenNMS
2 1 (0.78%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (12.50%) Ericsson
1 16 (12.50%) Nokia
2 13 (10.16%) Huawei
3 12 (9.38%) Actix
4 6 (4.69%) Empirix
4 6 (4.69%) NetScout
5 4 (3.13%) BT
5 4 (3.13%) Klocwork
5 4 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.13%) Perforce
6 3 (2.34%) Cisco
6 3 (2.34%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.56%) Remedy
8 1 (0.78%) Cramer
8 1 (0.78%) Google
8 1 (0.78%) Tellabs