Ericsson Contracts in the South East

Ericsson
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 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 Ericsson.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 193 207
Rank change year-on-year +40 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing Ericsson 6 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 0.46% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile £603 £180 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +43.53% -5.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile £639 £488 £519
90th Percentile £652 - £539
England median daily rate £563 £350 £400
% change year-on-year +60.71% -12.50% -3.03%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,580 2,634 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.49% 47.39% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,606 1,967
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 182 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.24 £22.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.38
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Ericsson
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Ericsson as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Ericsson in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ericsson in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Ericsson in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ericsson in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Ericsson in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ericsson within the South East 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
Thames Valley +35 4 £660 +55.29% 5
Berkshire +23 4 £660 +55.29% 5
Hampshire - 2 £610 -
Ericsson
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) 5G
1 5 (83.33%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (66.67%) 4G
3 3 (50.00%) 5G NR
3 3 (50.00%) LTE
4 1 (16.67%) 2G
4 1 (16.67%) 3G
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Radio Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Optimisation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Radio Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Fault Management
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Benchmarking
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Logistics
2 1 (16.67%) Network Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Radio Network Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Nokia
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Huawei
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft