3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring LTE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 688 624 789
Rank change year-on-year -64 +165 +175
Permanent jobs citing LTE 28 23 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.055% 0.080%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.27% 0.41% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 45
10th Percentile £49,400 £54,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £60,000 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £65,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +71.05% -43.70%
75th Percentile £62,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £74,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £67,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +77.63% -45.71%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

LTE 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 10,404 5,631 13,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 13.49% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,080 3,763 9,547
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,729
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,500 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -14.44% +3.45% -3.33%

LTE
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LTE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

LTE job vacancy trend in the UK

LTE
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LTE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LTE

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LTE over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for LTE in the UK

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Top 12 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 19 April 2026. 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 -61 28 £54,500 -16.15% 16
UK excluding London -63 16 £54,000 -20.00% 15
Work from Home +6 13 £54,000 -16.92% 2
London +3 9 £55,000 -6.38%
Midlands -35 6 £54,000 -
East Midlands -52 5 £54,000 -
South East -61 3 - - 6
South West - 3 - - 1
East of England -35 2 £67,500 - 9
North West - 2 £59,000 -
North of England - 2 £59,000 -
West Midlands -24 1 £35,000 -

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) GCP
3 6 (21.43%) Azure
4 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) Internet
2 6 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (21.43%) Wireless
3 5 (17.86%) Bluetooth
4 4 (14.29%) Modbus
5 2 (7.14%) GSM
6 1 (3.57%) 5G
6 1 (3.57%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 4 (14.29%) Subversion
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.57%) GDB
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.57%) WinDbg
3 1 (3.57%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Law
4 4 (14.29%) Electronics
5 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Marketing
6 2 (7.14%) Automotive
7 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.57%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
5 1 (3.57%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead
5 1 (3.57%) RF Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Senior RF Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Software Development Team Leader
5 1 (3.57%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.57%) Training Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) HEVC
2 4 (14.29%) .NET
3 3 (10.71%) OAuth
3 3 (10.71%) OAuth2
3 3 (10.71%) OpenID
3 3 (10.71%) React
3 3 (10.71%) SAML
4 1 (3.57%) Celery
4 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (3.57%) LangChain
4 1 (3.57%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (3.57%) NumPy
4 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.57%) SciPy
4 1 (3.57%) Spring
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 7 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (14.29%) Raspberry Pi
3 3 (10.71%) IoT
3 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.57%) Device Driver
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.57%) FPGA
5 1 (3.57%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (3.57%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (3.57%) ThreadX
4 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
2 8 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (28.57%) Workflow
3 7 (25.00%) Line Management
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.00%) Storytelling
3 7 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 6 (21.43%) Agile
5 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.29%) Clean Code
6 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 4 (14.29%) Microservices
7 3 (10.71%) AI
7 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Secure Coding
7 3 (10.71%) SOLID
7 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
7 3 (10.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) C
2 5 (17.86%) Embedded C
3 4 (14.29%) C#
3 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.71%) Bicep
4 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.14%) C++
5 2 (7.14%) SQL
6 1 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Degree
2 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.71%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Firmware
2 4 (14.29%) Docker
3 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.57%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Atmel
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) SAP