Ribbon Contracts in England

Ribbon
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 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 Ribbon Communications (formerly Sonus Networks).

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 531 641
Rank change year-on-year +63 +110 +136
Contract jobs citing Ribbon 17 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.030% 0.024%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.070% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £460 £379
25th Percentile £602 £472 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £554 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% +16.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £605 £648 £544
90th Percentile - £668 £570
UK median daily rate £545 £483 £475
% change year-on-year +12.95% +1.58% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.25 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 - -
75th Percentile £64.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.50 - £60.00

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Ribbon
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ribbon in England

Ribbon
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Ribbon in England

Ribbon
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Ribbon in England

Ribbon
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 Ribbon within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South West +47 10 £604 -6.25%
North of England +23 6 - -
North West - 4 - -
Yorkshire +8 2 - -
Ribbon
UK

Ribbon
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (23.53%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) PaaS
1 10 (58.82%) SaaS
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) PBX
1 10 (58.82%) VoIP
2 4 (23.53%) PSTN
2 4 (23.53%) Skype
2 4 (23.53%) SMTP
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
4 1 (5.88%) 4G
4 1 (5.88%) 5G
4 1 (5.88%) Unified Communications
General
1 10 (58.82%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.76%) Aviation
2 2 (11.76%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (11.76%) Police
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Swedish Language
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Collaboration Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Voice Architect
Miscellaneous
1 14 (82.35%) Blackberry
2 11 (64.71%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (23.53%) Handset
4 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (11.76%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Android
1 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Commercial Awareness
2 9 (52.94%) Customer Requirements
2 9 (52.94%) Impact Assessments
2 9 (52.94%) Migration
2 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (52.94%) Root Cause Analysis
2 9 (52.94%) Validation
3 8 (47.06%) Cost Reduction
3 8 (47.06%) Product Roadmap
3 8 (47.06%) Roadmaps
3 8 (47.06%) Service Design
3 8 (47.06%) Thought Leadership
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
5 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Threat Detection
5 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 13 (76.47%) SC Cleared
3 10 (58.82%) CCNP
3 10 (58.82%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (58.82%) DV Cleared
3 10 (58.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Avaya
1 10 (58.82%) Cisco
1 10 (58.82%) Ericsson
1 10 (58.82%) F5
1 10 (58.82%) Juniper
1 10 (58.82%) Nokia
1 10 (58.82%) Palo Alto
1 10 (58.82%) VMware
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) Clearswift
4 2 (11.76%) Tenable