Ribbon
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Ribbon products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ribbon over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Ribbon Communications (formerly Sonus Networks).

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 703 843
Rank change year-on-year +117 +140 -183
Contract jobs citing Ribbon 12 16 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.027% 0.007%
As % of the Vendors category 0.065% 0.062% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £457 £379 £360
25th Percentile £463 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £544 £558
90th Percentile £664 £570 £570
UK excluding London median daily rate £554 £538 £438
% change year-on-year +3.02% +22.72% +7.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Ribbon is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

Ribbon
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ribbon in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ribbon in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ribbon over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ribbon in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ribbon in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ribbon within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +127 11 £554 +16.58% 3
UK excluding London +69 11 £554 +3.02% 3
South West - 9 £644 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £474 -
North of England - 2 £474 -
Work from Home +122 1 £475 - 2

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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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
1 9 (75.00%) PaaS
1 9 (75.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) PBX
2 10 (83.33%) VoIP
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) Softswitch
3 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
3 1 (8.33%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 12 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (58.33%) Digital Economy
3 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
1 9 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Design Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) VoIP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Blackberry
1 9 (75.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) ArchiMate
1 9 (75.00%) BPMN
1 9 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 9 (75.00%) ITIL
1 9 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 8 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 7 (58.33%) Architecture Governance
3 7 (58.33%) Customer Engagement
3 7 (58.33%) Decision-Making
3 7 (58.33%) Digital Strategy
3 7 (58.33%) PQQ
3 7 (58.33%) Roadmaps
3 7 (58.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Defect Management
6 1 (8.33%) Presales
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) TOGAF Certification
3 7 (58.33%) Degree
3 7 (58.33%) HND
4 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (25.00%) CCNP
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (75.00%) Avaya
3 9 (75.00%) Ericsson
3 9 (75.00%) Google
3 9 (75.00%) IBM
3 9 (75.00%) Juniper
3 9 (75.00%) Nokia
4 3 (25.00%) VMware