3G Contracts

3G
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring 3G skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 3G over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 625 672
Rank change year-on-year +88 +47 -82
Contract jobs citing 3G 47 72 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.87% 1.01% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 44 64
10th Percentile £366 £292 £172
25th Percentile £460 £371 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.94% +4.42%
75th Percentile £788 £509 £538
90th Percentile - £841 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £763 £450 £420
% change year-on-year +69.44% +7.14% +3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £53.63 £11.50
25th Percentile - £57.02 £11.71
Median hourly rate - £65.16 £12.05
Median % change year-on-year - +440.71% -73.95%
75th Percentile - £71.81 £12.90
90th Percentile - £74.32 £13.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.16 £12.05
% change year-on-year - +440.71% -73.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

3G 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,422 7,095 9,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.41% 12.77% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,210 4,570 6,438
10th Percentile £210 £244 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 445 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £51.28
90th Percentile £70.90 £75.00 £65.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%

3G
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 3G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 3G in the UK

3G
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 3G.

Daily rate trend for 3G in the UK

3G
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 3G over the 6 months to 18 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 3G in the UK

3G
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 3G.

Hourly rate trend for 3G in the UK

3G
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3G within the UK over the 6 months to 18 June 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
England +62 46 £513 +13.89% 8
UK excluding London +21 40 £763 +69.44% 8
South East +17 28 £460 +21.69% 6
Work from Home +96 22 £775 +82.35% 1
South West -5 10 £775 +19.23% 1
London +68 7 £490 +21.74%
Scotland +49 1 £365 -
North of England +14 1 £365 -24.90% 1
North West +12 1 £365 -24.90%

3G
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (10.64%) ArcGIS
1 5 (10.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 46 (97.87%) 4G
2 32 (68.09%) 5G
3 23 (48.94%) Radio Access Network
4 17 (36.17%) 2G
5 10 (21.28%) Wireshark
6 7 (14.89%) DNS
6 7 (14.89%) VoLTE
7 6 (12.77%) Diameter Protocol
7 6 (12.77%) GGSN
7 6 (12.77%) LTE
7 6 (12.77%) RANAP
7 6 (12.77%) SGSN
8 4 (8.51%) ATM
8 4 (8.51%) Ethernet
8 4 (8.51%) GPRS
8 4 (8.51%) MVNO
8 4 (8.51%) SDH
9 3 (6.38%) GSM
9 3 (6.38%) SCCP
9 3 (6.38%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) GIS
1 5 (10.64%) QGIS
General
1 24 (51.06%) Telecoms
2 9 (19.15%) Marketing
2 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Electronics
3 8 (17.02%) Finance
3 8 (17.02%) Manufacturing
3 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.77%) Multimedia
4 6 (12.77%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Architect
1 10 (21.28%) Technical Architect
2 9 (19.15%) Consultant
3 5 (10.64%) Performance Consultant
3 5 (10.64%) Performance Specialist
3 5 (10.64%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Senior Consultant
3 5 (10.64%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 5 (10.64%) Senior Performance Consultant
4 4 (8.51%) Designer
4 4 (8.51%) Radio Specialist
5 3 (6.38%) Radio Planner
5 3 (6.38%) Transmission Planner
6 2 (4.26%) Telecoms Designer
7 1 (2.13%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Mobile Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Planning Manager
7 1 (2.13%) Radio Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Transmission Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Transmission Planning Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Windows
1 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Customer Experience
2 13 (27.66%) Performance Management
3 12 (25.53%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (21.28%) Agile
5 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (17.02%) Digital Marketing
6 8 (17.02%) Programme Management
6 8 (17.02%) Roadmaps
6 8 (17.02%) Waterfall
7 7 (14.89%) Decision-Making
7 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.77%) Computer Science
8 6 (12.77%) Network Architecture
8 6 (12.77%) Performance Improvement
8 6 (12.77%) Statistics
8 6 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (10.64%) Break/Fix
9 5 (10.64%) Data Analysis
9 5 (10.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) DV Cleared
1 8 (17.02%) SC Cleared
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (12.77%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Empirix
1 10 (21.28%) NetScout
2 8 (17.02%) SAP
3 4 (8.51%) Ericsson
3 4 (8.51%) VMware
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.13%) Datto
5 1 (2.13%) Sophos