Ericsson Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ericsson
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 August 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
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 334 372
Rank change year-on-year -2 +38 +75
Contract jobs citing Ericsson 35 48 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.61% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 25
10th Percentile £325 - £308
25th Percentile £406 £450 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £473 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% +18.13% -4.76%
75th Percentile £450 £560 £500
90th Percentile £571 £641 £560
UK median daily rate £425 £473 £423
% change year-on-year -10.05% +11.83% +0.60%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,373 7,907 10,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.31% 43.16% 45.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,476 4,815 6,603
10th Percentile £221 £213 £205
25th Percentile £363 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £690 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -3.97% -0.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 737 471
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.23 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.62 £17.71
Median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% -14.06% +61.53%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.60 £57.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £28.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.75% -28.75% +81.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ericsson as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ericsson in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ericsson in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ericsson in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ericsson in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ericsson in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ericsson in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ericsson in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ericsson within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 August 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 +40 29 £425 -5.56% 4
South East +1 4 £388 -26.19% 1
East of England 0 1 £300 -58.62%
North of England - 1 £291 -
North East - 1 £291 -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (5.71%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) PaaS
1 11 (31.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) 5G
2 14 (40.00%) VoIP
3 12 (34.29%) PBX
4 10 (28.57%) 4G
5 8 (22.86%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (14.29%) LTE
7 3 (8.57%) 3GPP
8 2 (5.71%) DOCSIS
8 2 (5.71%) GPON
8 2 (5.71%) MPLS
8 2 (5.71%) Unified Communications
8 2 (5.71%) Wireshark
8 2 (5.71%) xDSL
9 1 (2.86%) 2G
9 1 (2.86%) 3G
9 1 (2.86%) Converged Networks
9 1 (2.86%) Wireless
General
1 32 (91.43%) Telecoms
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Billing
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 8 (22.86%) Network Manager
2 8 (22.86%) Network Project Manager
3 6 (17.14%) OSS Project Manager
3 6 (17.14%) Telecoms Manager
3 6 (17.14%) Telecoms Project Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Network Design Specialist
4 2 (5.71%) Network Specialist
4 2 (5.71%) OSS Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Performance Specialist
5 1 (2.86%) Design Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Field Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Project Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Radio Design Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Radio Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Design Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (28.57%) Blackberry
3 8 (22.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) TM Forum
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (40.00%) Project Management
2 14 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (37.14%) Migration
4 12 (34.29%) Commercial Awareness
4 12 (34.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
5 10 (28.57%) Impact Assessments
6 9 (25.71%) Service Design
6 9 (25.71%) Thought Leadership
6 9 (25.71%) Validation
7 8 (22.86%) Cost Reduction
7 8 (22.86%) Fault Management
7 8 (22.86%) Product Roadmap
7 8 (22.86%) Roadmaps
7 8 (22.86%) Service Delivery
7 8 (22.86%) Service Management
8 6 (17.14%) Network Management
8 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (17.14%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) DV Cleared
3 10 (28.57%) CCNP
3 10 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 10 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (17.14%) PMI Certification
4 6 (17.14%) PMP
5 2 (5.71%) Degree
5 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) OASIS TOSCA
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) NSN NetAct
2 8 (22.86%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (94.29%) Nokia
2 12 (34.29%) Cisco
2 12 (34.29%) F5
2 12 (34.29%) Juniper
2 12 (34.29%) Palo Alto
3 10 (28.57%) Avaya
3 10 (28.57%) Ribbon
3 10 (28.57%) VMware
4 8 (22.86%) Amdocs
4 8 (22.86%) NetCracker
5 6 (17.14%) Ciena
6 4 (11.43%) Huawei
7 2 (5.71%) Actix
7 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.86%) Oracle