3GPP Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 349 397
Rank change year-on-year +10 +48 +105
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 28 26 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.29% 0.93% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 11
10th Percentile £424 £449 £239
25th Percentile £447 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.41% +17.11%
75th Percentile £603 £525 £500
90th Percentile £619 £536 £538
UK median daily rate £508 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +12.78% -5.26% +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59.00 - -
Median hourly rate £63.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.13 - -
90th Percentile £81.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,176 2,795 3,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.19% 15.27% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 1,640 2,140
10th Percentile £204 £206 £205
25th Percentile £331 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £457
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.36% +1.60%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £575
90th Percentile £640 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 276 190
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.56 £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.25 £54.88 £56.91
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% -3.58% +116.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £76.19
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -5.61% -9.26% +54.29%

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

3GPP
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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3GPP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing 3GPP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 August 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
East of England - 18 £575 - 3
North of England - 4 £442 -
North West - 4 £442 -
South West +15 3 £450 -
South East +18 2 £300 -40.89%
West Midlands - 1 £600 - 5
Midlands - 1 £600 - 5
3GPP
UK

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (60.71%) LTE
2 10 (35.71%) 4G
3 8 (28.57%) 5G
4 7 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (25.00%) Wireshark
5 5 (17.86%) Firewall
5 5 (17.86%) Wireless
6 4 (14.29%) BGP
6 4 (14.29%) DHCP
6 4 (14.29%) DNS
6 4 (14.29%) IPsec
6 4 (14.29%) MPLS
6 4 (14.29%) OSPF
6 4 (14.29%) VLAN
7 1 (3.57%) DMZ
7 1 (3.57%) Internet
7 1 (3.57%) LAN
7 1 (3.57%) VPN
7 1 (3.57%) WAN
7 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) DSP Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Designer
3 4 (14.29%) Network Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Network Design Specialist
4 3 (10.71%) Network Specialist
4 3 (10.71%) Performance Specialist
4 3 (10.71%) Radio Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) RF Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Architect
6 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Field Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
1 2 (7.14%) REST
1 2 (7.14%) RESTful
1 2 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) FPGA
1 13 (46.43%) IoT
1 13 (46.43%) NB-IoT
2 4 (14.29%) Operational Technology
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Validation
2 11 (39.29%) Digital Signal Processing
2 11 (39.29%) Kalman Filter
2 11 (39.29%) Signal Processing
3 3 (10.71%) High Availability
3 3 (10.71%) Multithreading
3 3 (10.71%) Network Design
3 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (10.71%) Software Architecture
4 2 (7.14%) API Development
4 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
4 2 (7.14%) Microservices
4 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.57%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (3.57%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (3.57%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (3.57%) Low Latency
5 1 (3.57%) Roadmaps
5 1 (3.57%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 1 (3.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) C++
2 3 (10.71%) C
3 2 (7.14%) Go
3 2 (7.14%) Java
3 2 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Dell
1 4 (14.29%) Ericsson
2 3 (10.71%) Actix
2 3 (10.71%) Nokia
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.57%) Juniper
3 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto