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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 419 503
Rank change year-on-year -138 +84 +102
Contract jobs citing Ericsson 36 53 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.087% 0.22% 0.10%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.46% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 8
10th Percentile £332 £333 £180
25th Percentile £409 £400 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.07% +20.59%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £608
90th Percentile - £658 £651
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +11.76% -17.07% +13.89%

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 16,954 11,434 15,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.96% 47.69% 41.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,949 7,342 9,751
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +1.94% -3.92%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 469 1,015
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.50 £14.34
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -43.11%
75th Percentile £58.75 £55.25 £57.41
90th Percentile £76.68 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +27.45% +14.35% -47.84%

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 May 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 May 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 -70 23 £525 -11.76% 6
South East -55 9 £496 +24.06% 4
South West -54 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 £290 -
Midlands - 1 £290 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (30.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) AWS
1 2 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (77.78%) 5G
2 25 (69.44%) Radio Access Network
3 17 (47.22%) 4G
4 13 (36.11%) LTE
5 11 (30.56%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (16.67%) VoLTE
6 6 (16.67%) VoWiFi
6 6 (16.67%) Wireshark
7 5 (13.89%) 3GPP
8 4 (11.11%) HTTP
9 2 (5.56%) 5G NR
10 1 (2.78%) 2G
10 1 (2.78%) 3G
10 1 (2.78%) Broadband
10 1 (2.78%) Firewall
10 1 (2.78%) Internet
10 1 (2.78%) SIGTRAN
10 1 (2.78%) SNMP
10 1 (2.78%) SS7
General
1 19 (52.78%) Telecoms
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Electronics
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Network Design Specialist
1 9 (25.00%) Network Specialist
2 5 (13.89%) Designer
3 4 (11.11%) Mobile Designer
3 4 (11.11%) RAN Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Design Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Field Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Optimisation Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) RAN Design Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Ericsson Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Field Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.56%) Industry 4.0
3 2 (5.56%) IoT
3 2 (5.56%) Smart City
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
1 7 (19.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (36.11%) High Availability
2 13 (36.11%) Network Design
3 8 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (22.22%) Migration
3 8 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 2 (5.56%) Benchmarking
7 2 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (5.56%) DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) Microservices
7 2 (5.56%) Network Architecture
7 2 (5.56%) Project Delivery
7 2 (5.56%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (5.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
1 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
1 2 (5.56%) Degree
1 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) OCP
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) SLA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Fluentd
2 1 (2.78%) Grafana
2 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (94.44%) Nokia
2 28 (77.78%) Huawei
3 7 (19.44%) BT
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco
6 2 (5.56%) Actix
6 2 (5.56%) Samsung
7 1 (2.78%) Arista
7 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.78%) Mavenir
7 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.78%) VMware