3GPP Jobs in the UK excluding London

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring 3GPP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited 3GPP over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 756 738
Rank change year-on-year +192 -18 +62
Permanent jobs citing 3GPP 24 8 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.060% 0.011% 0.019%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 0.082% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £58,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £55,000 £95,000 £86,500
90th Percentile - - £87,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £87,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% -19.54% +2.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

3GPP 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,655 9,755 10,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.69% 13.64% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,254 7,074 4,700
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% -3.33% -4.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,350 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

3GPP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing 3GPP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 3GPP in the UK excluding London

3GPP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3GPP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for 3GPP in the UK excluding London

3GPP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3GPP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. 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
Midlands +83 22 - - 1
West Midlands +67 22 - - 1
South East +88 1 £50,000 -44.44% 7
East of England - 1 - - 6
3GPP
UK

3GPP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (100.00%) 5G
2 1 (4.17%) Broadband
2 1 (4.17%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) Mobile Broadband
2 1 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Radio
General
1 23 (95.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Tester
2 9 (37.50%) Automation Specialist
2 9 (37.50%) Senior
2 9 (37.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 6 (25.00%) Security Tester
4 4 (16.67%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) gRPC
1 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
1 1 (4.17%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (95.83%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (37.50%) Vulnerability Research
3 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 4 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (16.67%) Refactoring
3 4 (16.67%) SDLC
3 4 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (4.17%) Agile
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Signal Processing
4 1 (4.17%) Manual Testing
4 1 (4.17%) Microservices
4 1 (4.17%) Signal Processing
4 1 (4.17%) Software Testing
4 1 (4.17%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) C++
2 1 (4.17%) Go
2 1 (4.17%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (91.67%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes