Ribbon Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Ribbon
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 4 July 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 Ribbon Communications (formerly Sonus Networks).

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ribbon 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.053% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - £450 -

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 694 453 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.49% 47.68% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 303 354
10th Percentile £275 £291 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £583 £592 £586
90th Percentile £663 £703 £663
North West median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% +5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 20 43
10th Percentile £22.64 £13.00 £12.08
25th Percentile £24.60 £13.90 £13.31
Median hourly rate £37.50 £22.63 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -10.38% +33.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £60.00 £39.38
90th Percentile £93.50 £64.38 £64.00
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £31.76 £16.06
% change year-on-year -5.54% +97.76% -44.04%

Ribbon
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Ribbon job vacancy trend in Manchester

Ribbon
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ribbon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ribbon

Ribbon
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk