3GPP Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring 3GPP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 392 441
Rank change year-on-year +32 +49 +170
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 8 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.060% 0.037% 0.023%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.61% 0.40% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £449 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.64%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £525 - -
England median daily rate £450 £491 £481
% change year-on-year -8.40% +2.24% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,321 1,503 2,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.91% 9.37% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 957 1,614
10th Percentile £289 £251 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £711 £724 £750
England median daily rate £490 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 43
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.61%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.50
England median hourly rate £41.48 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.68% +1.52% +34.50%

3GPP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3GPP in London

3GPP
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

3GPP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3GPP in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 3GPP in London

3GPP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

3GPP
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London - 1 - - 1
3GPP
England

3GPP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (37.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (75.00%) 4G
2 6 (75.00%) Wireshark
3 5 (62.50%) LTE
4 3 (37.50%) BGP
4 3 (37.50%) DNS
4 3 (37.50%) Firewall
5 2 (25.00%) 5G
5 2 (25.00%) DHCP
5 2 (25.00%) IPsec
5 2 (25.00%) MPLS
5 2 (25.00%) OSPF
5 2 (25.00%) VLAN
6 1 (12.50%) Anycast
6 1 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (12.50%) VXLAN
General
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Design Specialist
1 4 (50.00%) Network Specialist
1 4 (50.00%) Performance Specialist
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Network Design Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) FPGA
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Network Design
2 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) Signal Processing
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCIE
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) JNCIE
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Actix
1 4 (50.00%) Ericsson
1 4 (50.00%) Nokia
2 2 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Arista
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Wind River