LTE Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 641 712
Rank change year-on-year +118 +71 -75
Contract jobs citing LTE 52 41 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.073% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.96% 0.58% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 58
10th Percentile £475 £251 £411
25th Percentile £500 £335 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £481 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -16.43% +53.33%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £640
90th Percentile £598 £875 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £453 £450
% change year-on-year +21.55% +0.56% +20.00%
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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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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 1 June 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 13 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 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +97 44 £575 +21.05% 19
UK excluding London +51 40 £550 +21.55% 18
South East +15 14 £475 +90.00% 7
South West - 13 £575 - 2
Work from Home +114 12 £538 +10.60% 9
North of England +26 9 £638 +35.86% 1
North East - 9 £638 -
London +90 5 £525 -38.24% 1
Scotland +35 1 £500 -14.89% 2
Midlands +23 1 £500 -
East of England -1 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Wales - 1 £550 - 1

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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 5 (9.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.85%) AWS
2 2 (3.85%) Azure
3 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (65.38%) Radio Access Network
2 32 (61.54%) 4G
3 29 (55.77%) 5G
4 19 (36.54%) 3GPP
5 18 (34.62%) Wireshark
6 13 (25.00%) Wireless
7 12 (23.08%) DNS
8 11 (21.15%) Diameter Protocol
9 8 (15.38%) 5G NR
10 7 (13.46%) VoLTE
11 6 (11.54%) 3G
11 6 (11.54%) GGSN
11 6 (11.54%) RANAP
11 6 (11.54%) SGSN
11 6 (11.54%) TCP/IP
12 5 (9.62%) IPv6
13 4 (7.69%) BGP
13 4 (7.69%) HTTP
13 4 (7.69%) OSPF
14 3 (5.77%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (7.69%) MySQL
1 4 (7.69%) Power BI
1 4 (7.69%) Tableau
2 3 (5.77%) GIS
3 1 (1.92%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Git
1 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (78.85%) Telecoms
2 7 (13.46%) Multimedia
2 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Electronics
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) Design Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) Telecoms Manager
3 5 (9.62%) Build Manager
4 4 (7.69%) Radio Design Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Radio Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) RAN Design Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) RAN Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) SCADA Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Software Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Telecoms Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Architect
7 1 (1.92%) Business Analyst
7 1 (1.92%) Network Specialist
7 1 (1.92%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (1.92%) RF Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (1.92%) Test Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.92%) Django
2 1 (1.92%) Flask
2 1 (1.92%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) SCADA
2 3 (5.77%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.85%) CCTV
4 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.92%) GNSS
4 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Linux
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.92%) AIX
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Network Design
2 12 (23.08%) High Availability
2 12 (23.08%) Project Management
3 10 (19.23%) Network Architecture
4 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
4 6 (11.54%) Customer Experience
4 6 (11.54%) Performance Improvement
4 6 (11.54%) Statistics
5 4 (7.69%) Analytics
5 4 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 4 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 4 (7.69%) Roadmaps
5 4 (7.69%) Use Case
6 3 (5.77%) Bill of Materials
6 3 (5.77%) Logistics
6 3 (5.77%) Network Management
6 3 (5.77%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (5.77%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (3.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
2 2 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Ansible
1 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.69%) Grafana
2 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 4 (7.69%) Terraform
2 4 (7.69%) yum
3 1 (1.92%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (1.92%) PowerBroker
3 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Ericsson
2 15 (28.85%) Nokia
3 12 (23.08%) Actix
3 12 (23.08%) Huawei
4 6 (11.54%) Empirix
4 6 (11.54%) NetScout
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.69%) Oracle
6 3 (5.77%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.85%) Cisco
8 1 (1.92%) Cramer
8 1 (1.92%) Google
8 1 (1.92%) Tellabs