3GPP Contracts in the East of England

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring 3GPP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 3GPP over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 18 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.47% - 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.72% - 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £508 - £360
25th Percentile £525 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 - £519
90th Percentile £625 - £553
England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59.00 - £53.50
Median hourly rate £63.50 - £57.00
75th Percentile £73.13 - £60.50
90th Percentile £81.25 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 - £57.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 268 272 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.84% 15.14% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 132 220
10th Percentile £225 £201 £199
25th Percentile £363 £250 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £600
90th Percentile £638 £575 £700
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.96% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 92 40
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.19 £15.25
25th Percentile £28.06 £16.30 £45.44
Median hourly rate £62.00 £21.46 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +188.91% -66.98% +319.35%
75th Percentile £81.27 £65.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £88.00 - £73.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% +40.00%

3GPP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing 3GPP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for 3GPP in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3GPP in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for 3GPP in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3GPP in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for 3GPP in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 3GPP in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for 3GPP in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3GPP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Cambridgeshire - 13 £600 - 12
Hertfordshire - 5 £575 -
3GPP
England

3GPP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 13 (72.22%) LTE
2 5 (27.78%) Wireless
3 2 (11.11%) 4G
3 2 (11.11%) 5G
General
1 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) DSP Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Radio Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) RF Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
1 2 (11.11%) REST
1 2 (11.11%) RESTful
1 2 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) FPGA
1 13 (72.22%) IoT
1 13 (72.22%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Validation
2 11 (61.11%) Digital Signal Processing
2 11 (61.11%) Kalman Filter
2 11 (61.11%) Signal Processing
3 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 3 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) API Development
4 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 2 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) C++
2 3 (16.67%) C
3 2 (11.11%) Go
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Python
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes