3GPP Contracts in the Thames Valley

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 97 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% - 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.98% - 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South East median daily rate £400 - £247

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 605 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.68% 22.52% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 295 291
10th Percentile £242 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +2.46% +5.51%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 50 15
10th Percentile - £17.79 £19.70
25th Percentile - £23.78 £25.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.15% -1.52% +288.24%
75th Percentile £22.09 £85.65 £80.25
90th Percentile £31.44 £87.47 £81.22
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

3GPP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for 3GPP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3GPP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for 3GPP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3GPP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for 3GPP in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3GPP within the Thames Valley 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 -
3GPP
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (40.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) 3G
1 4 (80.00%) 4G
1 4 (80.00%) LTE
2 2 (40.00%) 5G
2 2 (40.00%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) MVNO
3 1 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
General
1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Design Authority
2 3 (60.00%) Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Design Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Case Management
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Amdocs
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Mavenir
2 1 (20.00%) Rakuten
2 1 (20.00%) Samsung