3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring LTE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LTE over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 824 910 1180
Rank change year-on-year +86 +270 -286
Permanent jobs citing LTE 84 25 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.027% 0.050%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.61% 0.16% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 50 20 50
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,350 £40,375
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,713 £68,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.54% -13.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile £70,313 £70,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -41.54% -13.33% +36.36%

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 13,815 15,214 22,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.62% 16.38% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,442 7,664 11,820
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,743 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -3.35% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,600 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,886 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.25% -5.26% +5.56%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +111 84 £38,000 -43.70% 15
UK excluding London +6 83 £38,000 -41.54% 14
South East +1 43 £33,750 -51.79% 8
East of England - 36 £65,000 -
Work from Home +41 22 £35,000 -36.36% 9
North of England +23 2 £35,405 -35.63% 1
North West - 2 £35,405 - 1
South West - 2 £43,500 - 2
London +83 1 £75,000 +36.36% 1

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 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (9.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.71%) Azure
2 8 (9.52%) Entra ID
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (9.52%) OneDrive
3 5 (5.95%) AWS
4 4 (4.76%) AWS IoT
5 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (70.24%) Wireless
2 46 (54.76%) Wi-Fi
3 37 (44.05%) Bluetooth
4 36 (42.86%) 5G
5 33 (39.29%) GSM
6 27 (32.14%) 4G
7 23 (27.38%) UMTS
8 22 (26.19%) ISDN
8 22 (26.19%) PSTN
9 20 (23.81%) 3G
10 14 (16.67%) GPRS
11 10 (11.90%) TETRA
12 8 (9.52%) DSL
12 8 (9.52%) Ethernet
13 7 (8.33%) 5G NR
13 7 (8.33%) Software-Defined Radio
14 6 (7.14%) 802.11
14 6 (7.14%) VSAT
15 4 (4.76%) Modbus
15 4 (4.76%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (26.19%) LabVIEW
2 5 (5.95%) JIRA
3 3 (3.57%) Git
3 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.19%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.19%) Subversion
4 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (53.57%) Telecoms
2 29 (34.52%) Manufacturing
3 22 (26.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (23.81%) Electronics
4 20 (23.81%) Social Skills
5 13 (15.48%) Marketing
6 11 (13.10%) Public Sector
7 10 (11.90%) Finance
8 8 (9.52%) Legal
9 7 (8.33%) Military
10 3 (3.57%) Aerospace
10 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.38%) Automotive
12 1 (1.19%) Avionics
12 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Support Engineer
1 20 (23.81%) Technical Engineer
2 19 (22.62%) Technical Support
2 19 (22.62%) Technical Support Engineer
3 15 (17.86%) Hardware Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Project Manager
4 10 (11.90%) Test Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Field Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Hardware Test Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Systems Support Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Hardware Technician
7 5 (5.95%) IT Manager
7 5 (5.95%) IT Project Manager
7 5 (5.95%) Radio Specialist
7 5 (5.95%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Firmware Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) 802.1X
2 4 (4.76%) Flask
3 2 (2.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (26.19%) Acoustics
1 22 (26.19%) Satnav
2 8 (9.52%) IoT
2 8 (9.52%) Smartphone
3 6 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (7.14%) NB-IoT
3 6 (7.14%) PCIe
4 5 (5.95%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (3.57%) Robotics
6 2 (2.38%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.19%) FPGA
7 1 (1.19%) GNSS
7 1 (1.19%) Verilog
7 1 (1.19%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.43%) Windows
2 10 (11.90%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.52%) Android
3 8 (9.52%) Apple iOS
3 8 (9.52%) Windows 10
4 7 (8.33%) Linux
5 2 (2.38%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.19%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (1.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.29%) Agile
2 22 (26.19%) Coaching
2 22 (26.19%) Critical Thinking
2 22 (26.19%) Data Management
2 22 (26.19%) Test Automation
2 22 (26.19%) Test Scripting
3 10 (11.90%) PRINCE2
3 10 (11.90%) Project Management
3 10 (11.90%) Waterfall
4 9 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (10.71%) Digital Marketing
4 9 (10.71%) Programme Management
4 9 (10.71%) Software Engineering
5 8 (9.52%) Logistics
6 7 (8.33%) Digital Signal Processing
6 7 (8.33%) Signal Processing
7 6 (7.14%) Performance Analysis
7 6 (7.14%) UML
8 4 (4.76%) Computer Science
8 4 (4.76%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.52%) Python
2 8 (9.52%) C
3 5 (5.95%) C++
3 5 (5.95%) Embedded C
4 4 (4.76%) Embedded C++
5 1 (1.19%) C#
5 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 37 (44.05%) Degree
2 17 (20.24%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) GCSC
4 5 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) HNC
5 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) SLA
2 5 (5.95%) QA
System Software
1 11 (13.10%) Firmware
2 10 (11.90%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.52%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 10 (11.90%) BT
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.71%) SAP
3 8 (9.52%) Citrix
4 6 (7.14%) Cisco
4 6 (7.14%) HP
5 3 (3.57%) EMC
6 2 (2.38%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.19%) Renesas
7 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.19%) Sigfox
7 1 (1.19%) Xilinx