Ericsson Contract Job Trends in England

Ericsson
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Ericsson products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ericsson over the 6 months leading up to 25 February 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 Ericsson.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 427 519
Rank change year-on-year -125 +92 +98
Contract jobs citing Ericsson 14 63 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.040% 0.25% 0.10%
As % of the Vendors category 0.088% 0.53% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 28 19
10th Percentile £246 £288 £316
25th Percentile - £335 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £594 £380
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +56.25% -5.00%
75th Percentile - £653 £400
90th Percentile - £680 £469
UK median daily rate £450 £594 £380
% change year-on-year -24.21% +56.25% -5.00%

All Vendors
England

Ericsson 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,855 11,928 16,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.96% 46.63% 43.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,368 7,375 10,362
10th Percentile £304 £284 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +0.48% -2.79%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £722 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £518
% change year-on-year -4.31% +0.87% -1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 355 875
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.28 £21.25 £15.29
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +20.56% -20.61%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £81.80 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% -21.21%

Ericsson
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Ericsson job vacancy trend in England

Ericsson
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ericsson.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ericsson

Ericsson
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ericsson in England over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ericsson in England

Ericsson
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ericsson.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ericsson

Ericsson
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ericsson within the England region over the 6 months to 25 February 2026. 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
London -57 10 £450 -29.69% 1
West Midlands -54 2 £290 +0.35%
Midlands -58 2 £290 +0.35%
South West -43 1 £450 -7.17% 1
South East -54 1 - - 2
Ericsson
UK

Ericsson
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) Radio Access Network
2 8 (57.14%) 4G
3 7 (50.00%) LTE
4 6 (42.86%) 3GPP
4 6 (42.86%) Wireshark
5 2 (14.29%) 5G
5 2 (14.29%) Broadband
5 2 (14.29%) Internet
6 1 (7.14%) 5G NR
6 1 (7.14%) Firewall
6 1 (7.14%) MIMO
6 1 (7.14%) SNMP
General
1 14 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Network Design Specialist
1 6 (42.86%) Network Specialist
1 6 (42.86%) Performance Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Ericsson Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Design Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Field Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) RAN Design Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) RAN Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Network Design
1 7 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (42.86%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 3 (21.43%) GAP Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Programme Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
4 2 (14.29%) Tech Ops
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) OCP
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Fluentd
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Nokia
2 6 (42.86%) Actix
3 2 (14.29%) Huawei
4 1 (7.14%) Arista
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Mapinfo
4 1 (7.14%) Mavenir
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) VMware