3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for LTE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LTE over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 672 747
Rank change year-on-year +125 +75 -136
Contract jobs citing LTE 44 46 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.078% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.80% 0.63% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 39
10th Percentile £419 £225 £410
25th Percentile £466 £244 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +53.33%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £713
90th Percentile £621 £875 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £401 £468
% change year-on-year +24.61% -14.26% +29.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.00 -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,522 7,324 9,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,303 4,766 6,317
10th Percentile £205 £242 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 475 360
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.87
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LTE in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LTE.

Daily rate trend for LTE in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LTE over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LTE in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LTE.

Hourly rate trend for LTE in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LTE within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +112 38 £513 +7.89% 31
UK excluding London +75 38 £500 +24.61% 25
South East +23 13 £475 +90.00% 10
South West - 12 - - 1
Work from Home +124 9 £500 +2.88% 8
North of England +29 9 £638 +35.86% 2
North East - 9 £638 -
East of England +6 2 £400 -20.00% 11
London +92 1 £525 -38.24% 5
Scotland +38 1 £500 -14.89% 2
Midlands +28 1 £500 -
East Midlands - 1 £500 -

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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 4 (9.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.27%) AWS
2 1 (2.27%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 27 (61.36%) Radio Access Network
2 25 (56.82%) 4G
3 21 (47.73%) 5G
4 17 (38.64%) Wireshark
5 16 (36.36%) 3GPP
6 12 (27.27%) Wireless
7 9 (20.45%) Diameter Protocol
8 6 (13.64%) VoLTE
9 5 (11.36%) 3G
9 5 (11.36%) DNS
9 5 (11.36%) GGSN
9 5 (11.36%) RANAP
9 5 (11.36%) SGSN
10 4 (9.09%) 5G NR
10 4 (9.09%) TETRA
11 2 (4.55%) GSM
12 1 (2.27%) LAN
12 1 (2.27%) SDH
12 1 (2.27%) UMTS
12 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (9.09%) MySQL
1 4 (9.09%) Power BI
1 4 (9.09%) Tableau
2 3 (6.82%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (79.55%) Telecoms
2 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Multimedia
4 5 (11.36%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Electronics
6 1 (2.27%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Design Engineer
1 6 (13.64%) Telecoms Manager
2 5 (11.36%) Build Manager
3 4 (9.09%) Radio Design Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Radio Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) SCADA Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Analyst
6 1 (2.27%) Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.27%) Integration Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Network Specialist
6 1 (2.27%) Penetration Tester
6 1 (2.27%) Real Time Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) RF Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (2.27%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (9.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) SCADA
2 3 (6.82%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.55%) CCTV
4 1 (2.27%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.27%) GNSS
4 1 (2.27%) IoT
4 1 (2.27%) NB-IoT
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.27%) TM Forum
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Linux
2 4 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (2.27%) AIX
3 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) High Availability
2 11 (25.00%) Network Design
2 11 (25.00%) Project Management
3 9 (20.45%) Network Architecture
4 5 (11.36%) Analytics
4 5 (11.36%) Computer Science
4 5 (11.36%) Customer Experience
4 5 (11.36%) Performance Improvement
4 5 (11.36%) Statistics
5 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 3 (6.82%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (4.55%) Agile
7 2 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (4.55%) Project Delivery
8 1 (2.27%) Red Team
8 1 (2.27%) Requirements Gathering
8 1 (2.27%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.27%) HND
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Ansible
2 4 (9.09%) Grafana
2 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 4 (9.09%) Terraform
2 4 (9.09%) yum
3 1 (2.27%) PowerBroker
3 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Actix
1 12 (27.27%) Nokia
2 11 (25.00%) Ericsson
2 11 (25.00%) Huawei
3 5 (11.36%) Empirix
3 5 (11.36%) NetScout
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.09%) Oracle