GSM Contracts in England

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GSM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GSM over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 626 747
Rank change year-on-year +99 +121 -134
Contract jobs citing GSM 6 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.029% 0.038%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% 0.24% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 12
10th Percentile - - £356
25th Percentile - £225 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £460
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -29.23%
75th Percentile - £519 £533
90th Percentile - - £631
UK median daily rate £413 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +3.13% -11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £30.80
25th Percentile £24.50 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £32.50
75th Percentile £25.50 - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 - £32.50

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

GSM 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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,792 5,941 7,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.16% 12.26% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,879 3,880 5,203
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 421 317
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.15
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +1.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £48.45
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.50 £63.18
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +10.00%

GSM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GSM in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GSM in England.

Daily rate trend for GSM in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GSM in England.

Hourly rate trend for GSM in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GSM within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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 +21 5 - - 5
London +88 1 - - 3
GSM
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) 2G
1 3 (50.00%) 3G
1 3 (50.00%) 4G
1 3 (50.00%) 5G
1 3 (50.00%) GPRS
1 3 (50.00%) SCCP
1 3 (50.00%) SS7
2 1 (16.67%) ADSL
2 1 (16.67%) CDMA
2 1 (16.67%) DSL
2 1 (16.67%) DWDM
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) LTE
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
2 1 (16.67%) NGN
2 1 (16.67%) SDH
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) OSS Architect
1 1 (16.67%) OSS Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Real Time Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Nokia