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 12 June 2024, 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 610 778
Rank change year-on-year +73 +168 -145
Contract jobs citing Ribbon 13 26 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.055% 0.013%
As % of the Vendors category 0.082% 0.13% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 9
10th Percentile £460 £469 £338
25th Percentile £472 £525 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £563 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% +32.35% -5.56%
75th Percentile £648 £588 £450
90th Percentile £668 - £543
UK median daily rate £483 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -12.27% +25.71% +4.48%

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 15,802 19,999 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.13% 42.52% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,992 13,722 19,314
10th Percentile £270 £267 £278
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,063 547 756
10th Percentile £12.28 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £18.84 £15.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%
75th Percentile £59.10 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ribbon in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 12 June 2024. 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 - 10 £644 -
North of England +8 2 £474 -13.86%
Yorkshire - 2 £474 -
London +75 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) PaaS
1 10 (76.92%) SaaS
2 9 (69.23%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) PBX
2 11 (84.62%) VoIP
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) Softswitch
3 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Rational DOORS
General
1 12 (92.31%) Telecoms
2 7 (53.85%) Digital Economy
3 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Architect
2 9 (69.23%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Design Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Design Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.69%) VoIP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Blackberry
1 10 (76.92%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) ArchiMate
1 9 (69.23%) BPMN
1 9 (69.23%) Enterprise Architecture
1 9 (69.23%) ITIL
1 9 (69.23%) TOGAF
2 8 (61.54%) Roadmaps
2 8 (61.54%) Zero Trust
3 7 (53.85%) Architecture Governance
3 7 (53.85%) Customer Engagement
3 7 (53.85%) Decision-Making
3 7 (53.85%) Digital Strategy
3 7 (53.85%) PQQ
3 7 (53.85%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (30.77%) Commercial Awareness
4 4 (30.77%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
6 2 (15.38%) Defect Management
7 1 (7.69%) Presales
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) DV Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) TOGAF Certification
3 7 (53.85%) Degree
3 7 (53.85%) HND
4 4 (30.77%) CCNP
4 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
3 10 (76.92%) Avaya
3 10 (76.92%) Ericsson
3 10 (76.92%) Juniper
3 10 (76.92%) Nokia
4 9 (69.23%) Google
4 9 (69.23%) IBM
5 4 (30.77%) VMware
6 1 (7.69%) F5
6 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto