Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for UMTS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited UMTS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 873 961 1195
Rank change year-on-year +88 +234 -301
Permanent jobs citing UMTS 23 9 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.009% 0.024%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.17% 0.056% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £52,500 £26,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £27,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £28,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +143.48% -39.47%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £29,688
90th Percentile - £77,500 £29,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 -
% change year-on-year -17.24% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

UMTS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UMTS in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing UMTS.

Salary trend for UMTS in the UK

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Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UMTS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +127 23 £60,000 -14.29% 2
South East +47 23 £60,000 -17.24% 2
UK excluding London +30 23 £60,000 -17.24% 2

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 23 (100.00%) 5G
1 23 (100.00%) GSM
1 23 (100.00%) LTE
1 23 (100.00%) Wireless
2 22 (95.65%) Bluetooth
2 22 (95.65%) ISDN
2 22 (95.65%) PSTN
2 22 (95.65%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.35%) 3GPP
3 1 (4.35%) 4G
3 1 (4.35%) 5G NR
3 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 22 (95.65%) LabVIEW
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 22 (95.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.35%) Electronics
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Hardware Engineer
2 10 (43.48%) Test Engineer
3 8 (34.78%) Hardware Test Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Hardware Technician
5 3 (13.04%) Associate Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) QA Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) QA Technician
6 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Design Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Digital Design Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) FPGA Design Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) FPGA Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Design Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior FPGA Design Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior FPGA Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Test Technician
Miscellaneous
1 22 (95.65%) Acoustics
1 22 (95.65%) Satnav
2 1 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.35%) FPGA
2 1 (4.35%) Verilog
2 1 (4.35%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Agile
1 22 (95.65%) Coaching
1 22 (95.65%) Critical Thinking
1 22 (95.65%) Data Management
1 22 (95.65%) Test Automation
1 22 (95.65%) Test Scripting
2 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (4.35%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (4.35%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (4.35%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
2 1 (4.35%) Programme Management
2 1 (4.35%) Project Planning
2 1 (4.35%) Signal Processing
2 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (4.35%) Time Management
2 1 (4.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) C
2 1 (4.35%) C++
2 1 (4.35%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (95.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) SAP
1 1 (4.35%) Xilinx