3GPP Contract Job Trends in the North East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring 3GPP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.16% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +9.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £94.00 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year +51.61% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 66 35 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 10.70% 11.67% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 27
10th Percentile £200 £153 £301
25th Percentile £380 £214 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £333 £425
Median % change year-on-year +27.82% -21.76% +51.79%
75th Percentile £638 £515 £569
90th Percentile £650 £626 £646
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile - - £29.80
25th Percentile £21.33 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 - £47.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile £49.00 - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +131.45%

3GPP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Radio Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker