Ribbon Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Ribbon
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 24 August 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
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ribbon 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.16% - -
As % of the Vendors category 2.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - £450 -

All Vendors
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 160 87 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 46.51% 47.80% 45.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 56 49
10th Percentile £135 £200 £199
25th Percentile £150 £391 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £295
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +69.49% -34.44%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £448
90th Percentile £600 £775 £535
North West median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.82% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 3
10th Percentile £14.68 - £21.69
25th Percentile £19.25 - £27.06
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% -51.56% +105.71%
75th Percentile - - £38.00
90th Percentile - - £39.20
North West median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £16.93
% change year-on-year +15.33% +48.57% -51.64%

Ribbon
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Ribbon job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Ribbon
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ribbon within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
Liverpool - 4 - -
Ribbon
North West

Ribbon
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) OneDrive
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Voice Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow