Ciena Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Ciena
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bradford requiring knowledge or experience of Ciena products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ciena over the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, 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 the Ciena Corporation.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 2 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Ciena 1 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 1.25% 26.83% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.70% 34.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £388 -
25th Percentile £406 £402 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £408 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% - -
75th Percentile £419 £434 -
90th Percentile - £438 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £408 -
% change year-on-year +1.16% - -

All Vendors
Bradford

Ciena 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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 37 32 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 46.25% 78.05% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 34
10th Percentile £263 £316 £256
25th Percentile £393 £364 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £408 £433
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% -5.78% -8.95%
75th Percentile £618 £438 £564
90th Percentile £681 £473 £643
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £16.55 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - - +54.35%
75th Percentile £21.30 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £77.50 £32.50 £26.78
% change year-on-year +138.46% +21.36% +24.56%

Ciena
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

Ciena job vacancy trend in Bradford

Ciena
Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Ciena.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Ciena

Ciena
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) IOS XR
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki