3GPP Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 - 216
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% - 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.17% - 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £350 - £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £247
75th Percentile £450 - £263
90th Percentile £480 - -
England median daily rate £525 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +31.25% -20.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 513 1,255 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.04% 22.58% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 617 590
10th Percentile £216 £205 £235
25th Percentile £325 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 131 74
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.33
25th Percentile £20.26 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.88 £85.65 £80.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for 3GPP in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for 3GPP in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3GPP in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for 3GPP in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for 3GPP in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3GPP within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire - 5 £500 -
Thames Valley - 5 £500 -
Hampshire - 1 £300 -
3GPP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) 4G
1 5 (83.33%) LTE
2 4 (66.67%) 3G
3 3 (50.00%) 5G
4 2 (33.33%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (33.33%) HTTP
4 2 (33.33%) MVNO
5 1 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
General
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Design Authority
2 3 (50.00%) Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Design Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Case Management
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) C++
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Amdocs
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Mavenir
2 1 (16.67%) Rakuten
2 1 (16.67%) Samsung