SGSN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SGSN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SGSN over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 448 506
Rank change year-on-year +64 +58 -93
Contract jobs citing SGSN 10 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.013% 0.003%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% 0.086% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £413 £411 -
25th Percentile £431 £447 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% - -
75th Percentile £488 £519 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £513 -
% change year-on-year -7.32% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

SGSN 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 3,326 3,507 4,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.24% 14.99% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,901 2,205 2,609
10th Percentile £200 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +6.86% +11.13%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 322 236
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.88
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.47 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.85% -14.12% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.43 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.25
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.51% +4.63%

SGSN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SGSN in the UK excluding London

SGSN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SGSN in the UK excluding London

SGSN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SGSN in the UK excluding London

SGSN
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 SGSN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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 10 £475 -7.32%
SGSN
UK

SGSN
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 1 (10.00%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Diameter Protocol
1 7 (70.00%) GGSN
2 6 (60.00%) 3G
2 6 (60.00%) 4G
2 6 (60.00%) 5G
2 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) LTE
2 6 (60.00%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (60.00%) RANAP
2 6 (60.00%) VoLTE
2 6 (60.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
3 1 (10.00%) IPsec
3 1 (10.00%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) GIS
1 1 (10.00%) Spatial Data
General
1 8 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (60.00%) Multimedia
3 6 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (60.00%) Customer Experience
1 6 (60.00%) Network Architecture
1 6 (60.00%) Performance Improvement
1 6 (60.00%) Statistics
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) API Development
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Empirix
1 6 (60.00%) NetScout
2 3 (30.00%) Ericsson
3 2 (20.00%) Apple
4 1 (10.00%) Mapinfo
4 1 (10.00%) Nokia
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle