3GPP Contracts in the UK excluding London

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for 3GPP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 3GPP over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 428 487
Rank change year-on-year +53 +59 -87
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 13 19 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.080% 0.074%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.53% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £265 £346
25th Percentile £375 £347 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £486 £415
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +17.11% +0.61%
75th Percentile £425 £497 £450
90th Percentile - £500 £455
UK median daily rate £463 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -3.75% +6.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

3GPP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,393 3,560 4,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.44% 14.91% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,945 2,259 2,657
10th Percentile £203 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 323 237
10th Percentile £13.48 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.92% -31.36% +3.77%

3GPP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for 3GPP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3GPP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for 3GPP in the UK excluding London

3GPP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3GPP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for 3GPP in the UK excluding London

3GPP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
South West - 12 - -
East of England 0 1 £400 -20.00% 1
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3GPP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) 4G
1 13 (100.00%) LTE
1 13 (100.00%) Wireless
2 12 (92.31%) Radio Access Network
2 12 (92.31%) Wireshark
3 1 (7.69%) 5G
3 1 (7.69%) Bluetooth
3 1 (7.69%) GSM
3 1 (7.69%) TETRA
3 1 (7.69%) UMTS
3 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
General
1 12 (92.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (7.69%) Network Design Specialist
1 1 (7.69%) Network Specialist
1 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) High Availability
1 12 (92.31%) Network Design
1 12 (92.31%) Project Management
2 1 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (7.69%) Agile
2 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (7.69%) Scrum
2 1 (7.69%) Use Case
2 1 (7.69%) User Stories
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Actix
1 12 (92.31%) Ericsson
1 12 (92.31%) Huawei
1 12 (92.31%) Nokia