3GPP Contracts in England

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 493 587
Rank change year-on-year +12 +94 +165
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 31 31 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.093% 0.067%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.91% 0.74% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 13
10th Percentile £426 - £251
25th Percentile £447 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +7.34%
75th Percentile £600 £532 £500
90th Percentile £618 £536 £530
UK median daily rate £508 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +12.78% -5.26% +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £56.40 - -
25th Percentile £59.00 - -
Median hourly rate £62.00 - -
75th Percentile £71.25 - -
90th Percentile £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,400 4,197 5,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.30% 12.60% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,104 2,581 3,716
10th Percentile £250 £243 £228
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% - -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £680 £688 £730
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 286 227
10th Percentile £14.69 £14.48 £15.75
25th Percentile £25.04 £20.50 £21.61
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.88 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -0.23% +69.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £68.68
90th Percentile £84.70 £75.00 £76.46
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -5.61% -9.26% +54.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for 3GPP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for 3GPP in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3GPP in England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 3GPP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for 3GPP in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 3GPP in England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for 3GPP in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 14 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
East of England - 18 £575 - 3
North of England - 4 £442 -
North West - 4 £442 -
South West +15 3 £450 -
South East +18 2 £300 -40.89%
London +17 2 £600 - 5
Midlands - 1 £600 - 5
West Midlands - 1 £600 - 5
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (19.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) IaaS
2 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
2 1 (3.23%) PaaS
2 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (58.06%) LTE
2 11 (35.48%) 4G
3 9 (29.03%) 5G
3 9 (29.03%) Radio Access Network
4 8 (25.81%) Wireshark
5 7 (22.58%) Firewall
6 6 (19.35%) BGP
6 6 (19.35%) DNS
7 5 (16.13%) DHCP
7 5 (16.13%) IPsec
7 5 (16.13%) MPLS
7 5 (16.13%) OSPF
7 5 (16.13%) VLAN
7 5 (16.13%) Wireless
8 1 (3.23%) DMZ
8 1 (3.23%) Internet
8 1 (3.23%) LAN
8 1 (3.23%) VPN
8 1 (3.23%) WAN
8 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (22.58%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) DSP Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Designer
3 5 (16.13%) Network Designer
4 3 (9.68%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Network Design Specialist
4 3 (9.68%) Network Specialist
4 3 (9.68%) Performance Specialist
4 3 (9.68%) Radio Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.45%) RF Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Field Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Network Design Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) OpenAPI
1 2 (6.45%) REST
1 2 (6.45%) RESTful
1 2 (6.45%) Swagger
2 1 (3.23%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) FPGA
1 14 (45.16%) IoT
1 14 (45.16%) NB-IoT
2 5 (16.13%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Validation
2 12 (38.71%) Digital Signal Processing
2 12 (38.71%) Signal Processing
3 11 (35.48%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (12.90%) Network Design
5 3 (9.68%) High Availability
5 3 (9.68%) Multithreading
5 3 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (9.68%) Software Architecture
6 2 (6.45%) API Development
6 2 (6.45%) Containerisation
6 2 (6.45%) Microservices
6 2 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.23%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (3.23%) Exploratory Testing
7 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (3.23%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (3.23%) Roadmaps
7 1 (3.23%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) C++
2 4 (12.90%) C
3 3 (9.68%) Python
4 2 (6.45%) Go
4 2 (6.45%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) CCIE
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.23%) CISSP
2 1 (3.23%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Dell
2 4 (12.90%) Ericsson
3 3 (9.68%) Actix
3 3 (9.68%) Nokia
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.23%) Arista
5 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.23%) Juniper
5 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.23%) Wind River