Hybrid/Remote LTE Job Trends

3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring LTE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 439 480
Rank change year-on-year +68 +41 +227
Permanent jobs citing LTE 3 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.012% 0.042%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.092% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile £53,300 £52,125 £40,375
25th Percentile £56,750 £53,438 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -21.67% +114.29%
75th Percentile £78,750 £65,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £68,375 £78,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -18.18% -4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,400 2,184 2,920
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.24% 13.29% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 881 1,227 2,474
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £71,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LTE and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

LTE job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing LTE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing LTE

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing LTE over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

LTE salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) Modbus
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Bluetooth
3 1 (33.33%) GPRS
3 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Research Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Research Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) RF Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior RF Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) SciPy
1 1 (33.33%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) FPGA
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) NB-IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Raspberry Pi
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Business Development
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (33.33%) Experimental Design
1 1 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) Product Management
1 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atmel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft