LTE Contracts in the UK excluding London

3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for LTE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LTE 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 357 419 459
Rank change year-on-year +62 +40 -75
Contract jobs citing LTE 39 28 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.17% 0.80% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 11
10th Percentile £425 - £350
25th Percentile £481 £225 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £468
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -3.31% +29.10%
75th Percentile £566 £500 £593
90th Percentile £644 £610 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £578
% change year-on-year +4.06% -16.80% +54.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

LTE 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for LTE in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for LTE in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LTE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LTE in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for LTE in the UK excluding London

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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 LTE 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 +28 14 £475 +90.00% 10
South West - 12 - - 1
North of England +32 9 £638 +35.86%
North East - 9 £638 -
East of England +4 2 £400 -20.00% 10
Scotland +39 1 £500 -14.89%
Midlands +34 1 £500 -
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
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UK

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.56%) AWS
1 1 (2.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 23 (58.97%) Radio Access Network
2 20 (51.28%) 4G
3 18 (46.15%) Wireshark
4 16 (41.03%) 5G
5 13 (33.33%) 3GPP
5 13 (33.33%) Wireless
6 10 (25.64%) Diameter Protocol
7 7 (17.95%) VoLTE
8 6 (15.38%) 3G
8 6 (15.38%) DNS
8 6 (15.38%) GGSN
8 6 (15.38%) RANAP
8 6 (15.38%) SGSN
9 4 (10.26%) TETRA
10 2 (5.13%) GSM
11 1 (2.56%) ADSL
11 1 (2.56%) LAN
11 1 (2.56%) SDH
11 1 (2.56%) UMTS
11 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (10.26%) MySQL
2 3 (7.69%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (79.49%) Telecoms
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Multimedia
4 6 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Electronics
6 1 (2.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Telecoms Manager
2 5 (12.82%) Build Manager
3 3 (7.69%) SCADA Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Build Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Design Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Designer
5 1 (2.56%) Integration Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Network Design Specialist
5 1 (2.56%) Network Designer
5 1 (2.56%) Network Specialist
5 1 (2.56%) Product Owner
5 1 (2.56%) Real Time Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) RF Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) RF Test Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (2.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (10.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) SCADA
2 3 (7.69%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.13%) CCTV
4 1 (2.56%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.56%) GNSS
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) NB-IoT
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.56%) TM Forum
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (2.56%) AIX
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) High Availability
1 12 (30.77%) Network Design
1 12 (30.77%) Project Management
2 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
2 6 (15.38%) Customer Experience
2 6 (15.38%) Network Architecture
2 6 (15.38%) Performance Improvement
2 6 (15.38%) Statistics
3 3 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (5.13%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (5.13%) Project Delivery
5 1 (2.56%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (2.56%) Analytics
5 1 (2.56%) Data Analytics
5 1 (2.56%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (2.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (2.56%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (2.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.56%) HND
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Grafana
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) Prometheus
2 4 (10.26%) Terraform
2 4 (10.26%) yum
3 1 (2.56%) PowerBroker
3 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Actix
1 12 (30.77%) Ericsson
1 12 (30.77%) Huawei
1 12 (30.77%) Nokia
2 6 (15.38%) Empirix
2 6 (15.38%) NetScout
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle