3GPP Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 579 643
Rank change year-on-year +170 +64 +195
Permanent jobs citing 3GPP 23 4 19
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.012% 0.045%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.74% 0.076% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 18
10th Percentile - - £67,500
25th Percentile - £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% +40.74%
75th Percentile - £95,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £87,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% -19.54% +2.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,109 5,274 4,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.95% 15.58% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,624 3,414 3,541
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%

3GPP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing 3GPP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

3GPP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

3GPP
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing 3GPP.

3GPP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (4.35%) AWS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (100.00%) 5G
2 1 (4.35%) 4G
2 1 (4.35%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (4.35%) HTTP
2 1 (4.35%) SCTP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 23 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Automation Specialist
1 9 (39.13%) Senior
1 9 (39.13%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 9 (39.13%) Tester
2 6 (26.09%) Security Tester
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (4.35%) Development Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) gRPC
1 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) RESTful
1 1 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Debian
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (39.13%) Vulnerability Research
3 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Clean Code
4 4 (17.39%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (17.39%) Refactoring
4 4 (17.39%) SDLC
4 4 (17.39%) TDD
5 1 (4.35%) API Development
5 1 (4.35%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Low Latency
5 1 (4.35%) Microservices
5 1 (4.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) C++
2 1 (4.35%) Go
2 1 (4.35%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (95.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes