3GPP Contract Job Trends in Central London

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring 3GPP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 - 164
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.052% - 0.030%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.51% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £475
London median daily rate £450 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -13.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

3GPP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 196 220 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.16% 9.58% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 134 221
10th Percentile £256 £272 £206
25th Percentile £361 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £664 £625 £638
90th Percentile £750 £748 £700
London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.61%

3GPP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3GPP in Central London

3GPP
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing 3GPP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing 3GPP

3GPP
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing 3GPP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing 3GPP

3GPP
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3GPP within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
City of London - 1 - - 1
3GPP
London

3GPP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell