GSM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 437 494
Rank change year-on-year +47 +57 -74
Contract jobs citing GSM 6 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.043% 0.059%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.29% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - - £319
25th Percentile £375 £225 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £250 £388
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -35.48% -13.89%
75th Percentile £425 £475 £441
90th Percentile - £519 £446
UK median daily rate £406 £300 £480
% change year-on-year +35.42% -37.50% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £24.28 - £30.80
25th Percentile £24.31 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £24.75 - £32.50
75th Percentile £25.31 - £33.75
90th Percentile £25.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.75 - £32.50

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,328 3,498 4,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.25% 14.91% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,201 2,615
10th Percentile £201 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 321 234
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.01
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

GSM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for GSM in the UK excluding London

GSM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for GSM in the UK excluding London

GSM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for GSM in the UK excluding London

GSM
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 GSM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 +22 5 - - 6
East of England +8 1 £400 -11.11% 5
GSM
UK

GSM
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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) 4G
1 4 (66.67%) 5G
2 3 (50.00%) 2G
2 3 (50.00%) 3G
3 2 (33.33%) DSL
3 2 (33.33%) GPRS
3 2 (33.33%) LTE
3 2 (33.33%) SCCP
3 2 (33.33%) SS7
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
4 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (16.67%) ICMP
4 1 (16.67%) Internet
4 1 (16.67%) NGN
4 1 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (16.67%) TETRA
4 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Real Time Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Process Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Use Case
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Nokia
2 1 (16.67%) ADVA
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Nokia Networks
2 1 (16.67%) Tellabs