3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LTE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LTE over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 814 969 1083
Rank change year-on-year +155 +114 -254
Permanent jobs citing LTE 80 20 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.019% 0.073%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.59% 0.12% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 48 16 53
10th Percentile £29,500 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.70% -10.00% +30.43%
75th Percentile £71,563 £70,625 -
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £84,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -45.71% -6.67% +36.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

LTE 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 13,614 16,074 20,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.87% 15.28% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,523 8,270 11,764
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

LTE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LTE in the UK

LTE
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for LTE in the UK

LTE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LTE over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for LTE in the UK

LTE
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LTE within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +170 80 £38,000 -43.70% 33
UK excluding London +67 79 £38,000 -45.71% 27
South East +43 40 £32,500 -53.57% 11
East of England - 34 £65,000 - 13
Work from Home +116 25 £47,500 -32.14% 7
South West - 3 £37,000 - 1
North West - 2 £35,405 - 2
North of England - 2 £35,405 - 2
London +125 1 £75,000 +36.36% 5

LTE
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 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.25%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.50%) AWS
1 6 (7.50%) AWS IoT
2 5 (6.25%) Azure
2 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.25%) OneDrive
3 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (70.00%) Wireless
2 44 (55.00%) Wi-Fi
3 36 (45.00%) Bluetooth
4 34 (42.50%) 5G
5 31 (38.75%) GSM
6 23 (28.75%) UMTS
7 22 (27.50%) ISDN
7 22 (27.50%) PSTN
8 20 (25.00%) 4G
9 16 (20.00%) 3G
10 10 (12.50%) GPRS
10 10 (12.50%) TETRA
11 9 (11.25%) Ethernet
12 7 (8.75%) 5G NR
12 7 (8.75%) Software-Defined Radio
13 6 (7.50%) 802.11
13 6 (7.50%) LoRaWAN
13 6 (7.50%) MQTT
13 6 (7.50%) VSAT
14 5 (6.25%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (27.50%) LabVIEW
2 5 (6.25%) Git
3 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.75%) JIRA
3 3 (3.75%) Subversion
4 1 (1.25%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (53.75%) Telecoms
2 27 (33.75%) Manufacturing
3 22 (27.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (26.25%) Electronics
5 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
6 13 (16.25%) Marketing
7 11 (13.75%) Finance
7 11 (13.75%) Public Sector
8 7 (8.75%) Military
9 5 (6.25%) Legal
10 3 (3.75%) Aerospace
10 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.50%) Automotive
12 1 (1.25%) Avionics
12 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 19 (23.75%) Support Engineer
2 19 (23.75%) Technical Support
2 19 (23.75%) Technical Support Engineer
3 15 (18.75%) Hardware Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 10 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Hardware Test Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Firmware Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Systems Support Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Field Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Hardware Technician
7 5 (6.25%) IT Manager
7 5 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Radio Specialist
7 5 (6.25%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) 802.1X
1 6 (7.50%) Flask
2 2 (2.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.50%) Acoustics
1 22 (27.50%) Satnav
2 9 (11.25%) IoT
3 6 (7.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (7.50%) PCIe
4 5 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 5 (6.25%) Smartphone
5 4 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (5.00%) NB-IoT
6 3 (3.75%) Robotics
7 2 (2.50%) Device Driver
8 1 (1.25%) FPGA
8 1 (1.25%) GNSS
8 1 (1.25%) Verilog
8 1 (1.25%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Windows
2 9 (11.25%) Linux
3 8 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.25%) Android
4 5 (6.25%) Apple iOS
4 5 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.50%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.25%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (1.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) Agile
2 24 (30.00%) Test Scripting
3 22 (27.50%) Coaching
3 22 (27.50%) Critical Thinking
3 22 (27.50%) Data Management
3 22 (27.50%) Test Automation
4 10 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 10 (12.50%) Project Management
4 10 (12.50%) Waterfall
5 9 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (11.25%) Digital Marketing
5 9 (11.25%) Programme Management
5 9 (11.25%) Software Engineering
6 7 (8.75%) Digital Signal Processing
6 7 (8.75%) Signal Processing
7 6 (7.50%) Performance Analysis
7 6 (7.50%) UML
8 5 (6.25%) Customer Service
8 5 (6.25%) Logistics
9 3 (3.75%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.75%) Python
2 10 (12.50%) C
3 7 (8.75%) C++
4 5 (6.25%) Embedded C
5 4 (5.00%) Embedded C++
6 1 (1.25%) C#
6 1 (1.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 35 (43.75%) Degree
2 17 (21.25%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) GCSC
4 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.50%) CCNA
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.50%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) SLA
2 5 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Firmware
2 12 (15.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) BT
2 9 (11.25%) SAP
3 6 (7.50%) Cisco
3 6 (7.50%) HP
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.25%) Citrix
5 3 (3.75%) EMC
6 2 (2.50%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.25%) Renesas
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.25%) Sigfox
7 1 (1.25%) Xilinx