LTE Job Trends in the North West

3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring LTE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 183 264
Rank change year-on-year -18 +81 -
Permanent jobs citing LTE 2 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.024% 0.10% 0.012%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.10% 0.86% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54,500 - £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 - £40,000
75th Percentile £63,500 - £45,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.17% -4.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,970 463 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 23.82% 11.93% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 385 352 803
10th Percentile £25,875 £25,761 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £43,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -4.44% -3.23%
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £53,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -19.81% +9.28% -4.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

LTE job vacancy trend in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing LTE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing LTE

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LTE within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Manchester - 2 £59,000 - 4
LTE
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GDB
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) WinDbg
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Celery
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Agent System
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker