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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 885 952
Rank change year-on-year +195 +67 +212
Permanent jobs citing 3GPP 27 9 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.009% 0.029%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% 0.067% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 24
10th Percentile - £58,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £67,500 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £87,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -19.54% +2.35%
75th Percentile £55,000 £95,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.67% -11.76%

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 8,582 13,531 15,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.57% 13.64% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,313 9,431 7,998
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -3.23%

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
Top 7 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 12 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
UK excluding London +178 24 £50,000 -28.57% 14
England +164 24 £50,000 -28.57% 28
Work from Home +158 23 - - 13
Midlands +89 22 - - 1
West Midlands +80 22 - - 1
South East +95 1 £50,000 -44.44% 6
East of England - 1 - - 9

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) AWS
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (100.00%) 5G
2 1 (3.70%) 4G
2 1 (3.70%) Broadband
2 1 (3.70%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (3.70%) HTTP
2 1 (3.70%) Internet
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile Broadband
2 1 (3.70%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (3.70%) SCTP
2 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 24 (88.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Tester
2 9 (33.33%) Automation Specialist
2 9 (33.33%) Senior
2 9 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 6 (22.22%) Security Tester
4 4 (14.81%) Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Software Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Penetration Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Development Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) OpenAPI
2 3 (11.11%) RESTful
2 3 (11.11%) Swagger
3 2 (7.41%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Debian
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (33.33%) Vulnerability Research
3 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
4 4 (14.81%) Microservices
4 4 (14.81%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (14.81%) Refactoring
4 4 (14.81%) SDLC
4 4 (14.81%) TDD
5 3 (11.11%) API Development
5 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (11.11%) DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) Low Latency
6 1 (3.70%) Agile
6 1 (3.70%) Digital Signal Processing
6 1 (3.70%) Manual Testing
6 1 (3.70%) Signal Processing
6 1 (3.70%) Software Testing
6 1 (3.70%) Test Automation
6 1 (3.70%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) Python
2 2 (7.41%) C++
2 2 (7.41%) Go
2 2 (7.41%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (81.48%) NCSC
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes