3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for LTE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LTE over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 674 742
Rank change year-on-year +118 +68 -142
Contract jobs citing LTE 42 45 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.097% 0.075% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.75% 0.61% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 40
10th Percentile £413 - £400
25th Percentile £456 £225 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -39.13% +53.33%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £706
90th Percentile £633 £875 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £313 £450
% change year-on-year +60.00% -30.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

LTE 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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LTE in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for LTE in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LTE over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LTE in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for LTE in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LTE within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +129 36 £525 +50.00% 26
UK excluding London +71 36 £500 +60.00% 21
South East +22 12 £475 +90.00% 7
South West - 12 - - 1
Work from Home +124 9 £500 +42.86% 7
North of England +40 9 £638 +131.82% 3
North East - 9 £638 -
East of England +13 2 £400 -20.00% 9
London +94 1 £525 -38.24% 4
Scotland +31 1 £500 -14.89% 2

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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 4 (9.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (61.90%) Radio Access Network
2 24 (57.14%) 4G
3 20 (47.62%) 5G
4 16 (38.10%) Wireshark
5 15 (35.71%) 3GPP
6 11 (26.19%) Wireless
7 8 (19.05%) Diameter Protocol
8 5 (11.90%) VoLTE
9 4 (9.52%) 3G
9 4 (9.52%) 5G NR
9 4 (9.52%) DNS
9 4 (9.52%) GGSN
9 4 (9.52%) RANAP
9 4 (9.52%) SGSN
9 4 (9.52%) TETRA
10 2 (4.76%) GSM
11 1 (2.38%) LAN
11 1 (2.38%) SDH
11 1 (2.38%) UMTS
11 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (9.52%) MySQL
1 4 (9.52%) Power BI
1 4 (9.52%) Tableau
2 3 (7.14%) GIS
General
1 34 (80.95%) Telecoms
2 5 (11.90%) Multimedia
2 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Telecoms Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Build Manager
4 4 (9.52%) Radio Design Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Radio Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) SCADA Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Optimisation Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) RAN Design Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) RAN Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Telecoms Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Integration Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Network Specialist
7 1 (2.38%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (2.38%) Real Time Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) RF Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) RF Test Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (2.38%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (9.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) SCADA
2 3 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.76%) CCTV
4 1 (2.38%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.38%) GNSS
4 1 (2.38%) IoT
4 1 (2.38%) NB-IoT
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.38%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
1 4 (9.52%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) High Availability
2 10 (23.81%) Network Design
2 10 (23.81%) Project Management
3 8 (19.05%) Network Architecture
4 5 (11.90%) Analytics
5 4 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (9.52%) Computer Science
5 4 (9.52%) Customer Experience
5 4 (9.52%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (9.52%) Roadmaps
5 4 (9.52%) Statistics
6 3 (7.14%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (4.76%) Agile
7 2 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (2.38%) Cost Optimisation
8 1 (2.38%) Data Analytics
8 1 (2.38%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (2.38%) Strategic Thinking
8 1 (2.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) HND
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Ansible
1 4 (9.52%) Grafana
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
1 4 (9.52%) yum
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Actix
1 12 (28.57%) Nokia
2 10 (23.81%) Ericsson
2 10 (23.81%) Huawei
3 4 (9.52%) Empirix
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) NetScout
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle