Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for UMTS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UMTS over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 707 834
Rank change year-on-year +114 +127 -168
Contract jobs citing UMTS 1 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.015% 0.024%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.018% 0.12% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - - £324
25th Percentile £375 £225 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £250 £425
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £425 £275 £450
90th Percentile - £315 £468
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £250 £388
% change year-on-year +60.00% -35.48% -8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £30.80
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £32.50

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

UMTS 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 5,610 7,363 9,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.95% 12.33% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,791 6,355
10th Percentile £205 £235 £228
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +3.60% +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 420 478 361
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.88
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -33.12% +1.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £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% -13.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UMTS in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UMTS in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UMTS in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UMTS within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +109 1 £400 +60.00% 2
UK excluding London +59 1 £400 +60.00% 2
East of England - 1 £400 -

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) LTE
1 1 (100.00%) TETRA
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories