3GPP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring 3GPP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 3GPP over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 341 456
Rank change year-on-year +41 +115 +157
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 5 5 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.051% 0.034% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.46% 0.32% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £233
25th Percentile £447 - £237
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 - £367
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.77%
75th Percentile £613 - £486
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £447 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.60% +5.26% +5.56%

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,083 1,539 2,819
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.00% 10.51% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 1,003 1,864
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +2.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 70 105
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £19.70
25th Percentile £44.09 £14.27 £42.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £45.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £70.16 £87.46 £79.83
UK median hourly rate £41.48 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +114.29% -26.32%

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
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

3GPP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

3GPP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing 3GPP over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

3GPP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

3GPP
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) 4G
1 5 (100.00%) 5G
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) MPLS
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (60.00%) VLAN
2 3 (60.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (40.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Designer
1 3 (60.00%) Network Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) API Development
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Go
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dell
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