LTE Contracts in the East of England

3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring LTE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LTE over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 98 117
Rank change year-on-year +19 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing LTE 18 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.43% 0.18% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.90% 1.19% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £371 £519 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +19.44% -35.71%
75th Percentile £579 £556 £494
90th Percentile £625 - £500
England median daily rate £450 £450 £453
% change year-on-year - -0.55% +0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.25 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 - £37.50

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

LTE 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 261 252 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.73% 15.50% 18.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 118 218
10th Percentile £225 £200 £197
25th Percentile £363 £260 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £400 £466
Median % change year-on-year +29.38% -14.21% +9.71%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £575
90th Percentile £668 £577 £700
England median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 82 43
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £15.75
25th Percentile £30.87 £16.30 £44.22
Median hourly rate £63.75 £21.46 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +197.06% -66.98% +271.22%
75th Percentile £81.27 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £43.75 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -20.27% +9.75% +92.31%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for LTE 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 LTE in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for LTE in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LTE in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LTE 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 LTE in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for LTE in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LTE in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for LTE 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 LTE within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 August 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 +19 18 £450 -16.28% 18
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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%) 3GPP
2 5 (27.78%) 5G
3 1 (5.56%) GSM
3 1 (5.56%) WCDMA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) DSP Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Field Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Field Test Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Test Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) RF Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (83.33%) IoT
2 13 (72.22%) FPGA
2 13 (72.22%) NB-IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
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