Ribbon Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Ribbon
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring knowledge or experience of Ribbon products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ribbon over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ribbon 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.22% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
Birmingham

Ribbon falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 408 249 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 44.74% 45.03% 48.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 171 246
10th Percentile £313 £150 £263
25th Percentile £400 £275 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £557 £550 £625
90th Percentile £625 £613 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £14.46 £18.20 £13.93
25th Percentile £16.90 £18.51 £17.42
Median hourly rate £19.34 £22.50 £31.81
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% -29.27% +36.83%
75th Percentile £43.27 £30.29 £52.63
90th Percentile £51.25 £48.49 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.30 £30.00 £26.13
% change year-on-year -9.00% +14.83% +16.11%

Ribbon
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ribbon relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Ribbon job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Ribbon
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk