3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for 3GPP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 3GPP 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 572 681 811
Rank change year-on-year +109 +130 -167
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 19 24 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.041% 0.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% 0.34% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 12
10th Percentile £389 £279 £367
25th Percentile £409 £431 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £481 £441
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +9.08% -11.90%
75th Percentile £509 £490 £471
90th Percentile £526 £500 £532
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £486 £415
% change year-on-year -17.70% +17.11% +0.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

3GPP 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 5,482 7,160 9,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.73% 12.34% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,283 4,630 6,209
10th Percentile £205 £240 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 472 358
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.58 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.95 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -10.42%

3GPP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 3GPP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 3GPP in the UK

3GPP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for 3GPP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for 3GPP in the UK

3GPP
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3GPP within the UK 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
England +105 14 £463 -3.75% 7
UK excluding London +45 13 £400 -17.70% 4
South West - 12 - -
Work from Home +126 4 - - 1
East of England -1 1 £400 -20.00% 1

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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:

Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.26%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 17 (89.47%) 4G
1 17 (89.47%) LTE
2 16 (84.21%) Radio Access Network
3 13 (68.42%) Wireless
4 12 (63.16%) Wireshark
5 5 (26.32%) 5G
6 4 (21.05%) 5G NR
7 1 (5.26%) Bluetooth
7 1 (5.26%) GSM
7 1 (5.26%) TETRA
7 1 (5.26%) UMTS
7 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Power BI
1 4 (21.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (89.47%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Radio Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Design Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Radio Design Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Network Design Specialist
3 1 (5.26%) Network Specialist
3 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
3 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Project Management
2 12 (63.16%) High Availability
2 12 (63.16%) Network Design
3 4 (21.05%) Analytics
3 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (21.05%) Network Architecture
3 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
4 1 (5.26%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (5.26%) Agile
4 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.26%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (5.26%) Scrum
4 1 (5.26%) Security Operations
4 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.26%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.26%) Use Case
4 1 (5.26%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Actix
1 12 (63.16%) Ericsson
1 12 (63.16%) Huawei
1 12 (63.16%) Nokia
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Motorola