3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 688 713 1041
Rank change year-on-year +25 +328 -15
Permanent jobs citing 3GPP 78 17 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.032% 0.027%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.71% 0.21% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 28
10th Percentile £46,500 £41,250 £72,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -35.29% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 - £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -35.29% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,978 8,005 15,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.83% 15.11% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,040 6,279 10,353
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £34,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,025 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.23% +3.33%

3GPP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for 3GPP in the UK

3GPP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for 3GPP in the UK

3GPP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 3GPP over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for 3GPP in the UK

3GPP
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3GPP within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 77 £55,000 - 12
UK excluding London -28 61 £50,000 -9.09% 9
West Midlands +10 56 - - 4
Midlands +1 56 - - 4
Work from Home +46 40 - - 8
London - 16 £72,500 - 2
South West - 4 - -
South East -46 1 £50,000 -33.33% 1

3GPP
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (17.95%) Confluence
1 14 (17.95%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.56%) Azure
1 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.28%) AWS
2 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (1.28%) SaaS
2 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (51.28%) 5G
2 29 (37.18%) Radio Access Network
3 20 (25.64%) Broadband
4 8 (10.26%) Internet
5 6 (7.69%) Mobile Broadband
5 6 (7.69%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (2.56%) HTTP
7 1 (1.28%) DAB
7 1 (1.28%) LTE
7 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.28%) Wireless
7 1 (1.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.28%) JIRA
General
1 76 (97.44%) Telecoms
2 22 (28.21%) Games
3 14 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.95%) Billing
3 14 (17.95%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.28%) Automotive
5 1 (1.28%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (30.77%) Analyst
1 24 (30.77%) Functional Analyst
2 21 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (17.95%) Support Specialist
3 14 (17.95%) Technical Specialist
3 14 (17.95%) Technical Support
3 14 (17.95%) Technical Support Specialist
4 7 (8.97%) Tester
5 5 (6.41%) RAN Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Security Tester
5 5 (6.41%) Software Engineer
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (2.56%) Network Engineer
6 2 (2.56%) Senior
6 2 (2.56%) Vulnerability Researcher
7 1 (1.28%) Digital Architect
7 1 (1.28%) Digital Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.28%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.28%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (1.28%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.28%) GraphQL
1 1 (1.28%) HTML
1 1 (1.28%) HTML5
1 1 (1.28%) Jest
1 1 (1.28%) Next.js
1 1 (1.28%) Node.js
1 1 (1.28%) React
1 1 (1.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.95%) Wiki
2 6 (7.69%) Smartphone
3 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.95%) Unix
2 5 (6.41%) Linux
3 1 (1.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (32.05%) Decision-Making
2 25 (32.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 25 (32.05%) Test Strategy
3 21 (26.92%) Agile
3 21 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (19.23%) Computer Science
5 14 (17.95%) Business Case
5 14 (17.95%) CI/CD
5 14 (17.95%) Containerisation
5 14 (17.95%) Problem Management
5 14 (17.95%) Programme Management
5 14 (17.95%) Regulatory Compliance
5 14 (17.95%) SDLC
5 14 (17.95%) Service Design
6 8 (10.26%) Vulnerability Research
7 6 (7.69%) Digital Signal Processing
7 6 (7.69%) Signal Processing
8 5 (6.41%) High Availability
8 5 (6.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (19.23%) Shell Script
2 14 (17.95%) SQL
3 5 (6.41%) C
4 1 (1.28%) C++
4 1 (1.28%) Java
4 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.28%) JSX
4 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.28%) Python
4 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) Degree
2 14 (17.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (44.87%) NCSC
2 26 (33.33%) QA
3 6 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 14 (17.95%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Amdocs
1 14 (17.95%) Oracle
2 1 (1.28%) Cisco
2 1 (1.28%) Juniper
2 1 (1.28%) Ruckus Wireless
2 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow