3G
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for 3G skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited 3G over the 6 months to 9 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 712 1014 951
Rank change year-on-year +302 -63 -242
Permanent jobs citing 3G 17 64 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.052% 0.093%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.42% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15 45 78
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £35,696
25th Percentile £42,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - +66.67%
75th Percentile £71,625 £87,000 -
90th Percentile £75,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -28.33% +7.14% +47.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

3G is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,927 15,194 16,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.20% 12.40% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,195 10,339 11,513
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,625 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -

3G
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 3G as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 3G in the UK

3G
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 3G.

Salary trend for 3G in the UK

3G
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3G over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

Salary histogram for 3G in the UK

3G
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3G within the UK over the 6 months to 9 December 2023. 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
England +304 17 £45,000 -40.00% 30
UK excluding London +210 11 £53,750 -28.33% 19
London +259 6 £44,000 -51.11% 13
South East +155 5 £32,500 -57.24% 6
West Midlands +121 5 £62,500 - 5
Midlands +120 5 £62,500 - 5
Work from Home +237 2 £74,000 -2.63% 7
North West +126 1 £68,000 -21.84% 2
North of England +124 1 £68,000 -9.33% 2

3G
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Acrobat
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.88%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) 4G
2 6 (35.29%) 5G
2 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
2 6 (35.29%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (29.41%) VPN
4 4 (23.53%) 2G
4 4 (23.53%) DHCP
4 4 (23.53%) DNS
4 4 (23.53%) Internet
5 3 (17.65%) Diameter Protocol
5 3 (17.65%) HTTP
5 3 (17.65%) Modbus
5 3 (17.65%) SCTP
5 3 (17.65%) Wireless
6 2 (11.76%) Bluetooth
6 2 (11.76%) Ethernet
6 2 (11.76%) GPRS
6 2 (11.76%) LTE
7 1 (5.88%) 3GPP
7 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Appium
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) GoogleTest
2 1 (5.88%) JMeter
2 1 (5.88%) JUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Spock
2 1 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 10 (58.82%) Telecoms
2 9 (52.94%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) Manufacturing
4 5 (29.41%) Electronics
4 5 (29.41%) Marketing
4 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
5 4 (23.53%) Banking
5 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
6 2 (11.76%) Automotive
6 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
7 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Support Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Desktop Support
3 4 (23.53%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Security Tester
4 3 (17.65%) Telecoms Tester
4 3 (17.65%) Tester
5 2 (11.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Junior
5 2 (11.76%) Junior Embedded Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Junior Support Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Junior Technical Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Junior Technical Support
5 2 (11.76%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Support
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) HTML5
1 1 (5.88%) pytest
1 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Hedge funds
1 4 (23.53%) IoT
2 3 (17.65%) NB-IoT
3 1 (5.88%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (5.88%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Smartcard
3 1 (5.88%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Android
2 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows 10
3 4 (23.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (11.76%) Linux
5 1 (5.88%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (5.88%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Digital Marketing
1 5 (29.41%) Programme Management
2 4 (23.53%) ITIL
2 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) Fuzz Testing
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Product Management
3 3 (17.65%) Security Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
4 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
4 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Information Security
5 1 (5.88%) IT Governance
5 1 (5.88%) Quality Management
5 1 (5.88%) Regression Testing
5 1 (5.88%) Scrum
5 1 (5.88%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) C
2 2 (11.76%) C++
2 2 (11.76%) PHP
3 1 (5.88%) Assembly Language
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CISA
3 1 (5.88%) CISM
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GRC
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Consul
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) SAP
2 4 (23.53%) Bloomberg
2 4 (23.53%) Reuters
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.76%) Apple
5 1 (5.88%) Adobe
5 1 (5.88%) EMC
5 1 (5.88%) Google