LTE Job Trends in England

3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring LTE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 663 180 751
Rank change year-on-year -483 +571 +115
Permanent jobs citing LTE 37 753 87
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.044% 1.90% 0.092%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.60% 12.29% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 20 5 51
10th Percentile £41,250 - £29,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £47,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £65,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +71.05% -45.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £90,750 £72,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £54,500 £65,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year -16.15% +71.05% -41.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

LTE falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,137 6,128 12,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.38% 15.49% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,016 3,424 8,523
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,390 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -7.50%

LTE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LTE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

LTE job vacancy trend in England

LTE
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing LTE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing LTE

LTE
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing LTE in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for LTE in England

LTE
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LTE within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -31 9 £85,000 +30.77% 11
Midlands -160 8 £54,000 +8.00% 2
East Midlands -125 7 £54,000 +8.00% 2
South West -55 6 £42,500 - 1
North West -1 5 £85,000 -
North of England -36 5 £85,000 - 1
East of England -162 3 £80,000 +20.75% 3
South East -199 2 £107,500 - 4
West Midlands -17 1 £35,000 -
LTE
UK

LTE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) AWS
2 12 (32.43%) GCP
3 9 (24.32%) Azure
4 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.11%) Power Automate
5 3 (8.11%) PowerApps
5 3 (8.11%) Serverless
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (24.32%) Wireless
2 8 (21.62%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (18.92%) Bluetooth
3 7 (18.92%) Internet
4 6 (16.22%) Modbus
5 3 (8.11%) 5G
5 3 (8.11%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (2.70%) Broadband
6 1 (2.70%) MPLS
6 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.70%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Git
2 4 (10.81%) Eclipse
2 4 (10.81%) Subversion
3 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.70%) GDB
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.70%) WinDbg
3 1 (2.70%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Law
4 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.41%) Electronics
5 2 (5.41%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Software Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Radio Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (2.70%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) RF Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior RF Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Software Development Team Leader
6 1 (2.70%) Software Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) HEVC
2 5 (13.51%) .NET
3 4 (10.81%) React
4 3 (8.11%) OAuth
4 3 (8.11%) OAuth2
4 3 (8.11%) OpenID
4 3 (8.11%) SAML
5 1 (2.70%) Celery
5 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) LangChain
5 1 (2.70%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (2.70%) NumPy
5 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.70%) SciPy
5 1 (2.70%) Spring
5 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.70%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Management Information System
1 7 (18.92%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (16.22%) Raspberry Pi
3 4 (10.81%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (10.81%) IoT
3 4 (10.81%) NB-IoT
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) FPGA
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.41%) Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.70%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (2.70%) ThreadX
4 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Software Engineering
2 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (21.62%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (21.62%) Workflow
4 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.92%) Line Management
4 7 (18.92%) Storytelling
4 7 (18.92%) Strategic Thinking
5 6 (16.22%) Agile
6 5 (13.51%) Clean Code
6 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
6 5 (13.51%) Microservices
6 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Engineering
7 4 (10.81%) Event-Driven
7 4 (10.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (10.81%) Secure Coding
7 4 (10.81%) SOLID
7 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) Python
2 7 (18.92%) C
2 7 (18.92%) Embedded C
3 5 (13.51%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) Bicep
4 4 (10.81%) SQL
4 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.41%) C++
7 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Degree
2 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Firmware
2 5 (13.51%) Docker
3 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (8.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Atmel
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks