Nokia Contracts in the UK excluding London

Nokia
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 Nokia products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Nokia over the 6 months leading up to 2 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 the Nokia Corporation.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 340 402
Rank change year-on-year +49 +62 +72
Contract jobs citing Nokia 48 59 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.77% 0.67% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 24
10th Percentile £301 £350 £238
25th Percentile £313 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £480 £650 £525
90th Percentile £603 £688 £568
UK median daily rate £480 £600 £419
% change year-on-year -20.00% +43.28% -20.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £24.35 -
25th Percentile - £24.50 £32.75
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.45% +28.85%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £34.25
90th Percentile - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -57.14% +154.55%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Nokia 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 6,247 8,846 10,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.84% 42.63% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,971 5,327 7,325
10th Percentile £216 £205 £205
25th Percentile £370 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.58%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 949 474
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.61 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year +20.23% -49.65% +107.85%

Nokia
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Nokia in the UK excluding London

Nokia
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Nokia in the UK excluding London

Nokia
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nokia in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Nokia 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 Nokia in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Nokia 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 Nokia within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West +37 31 £425 -34.62% 2
Scotland +19 7 £325 - 4
South East +37 6 £610 +22.00% 9
North of England +21 3 £375 +7.14%
North West +12 2 £375 +7.14%
Midlands +19 1 £291 -22.53% 1
West Midlands +15 1 £291 -22.53%
North East -2 1 £291 -
Channel Islands - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £300 -
Nokia
UK

Nokia
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 (4.17%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) PaaS
1 11 (22.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (43.75%) 5G
2 17 (35.42%) 4G
3 15 (31.25%) Radio Access Network
4 12 (25.00%) PBX
4 12 (25.00%) VoIP
5 10 (20.83%) 2G
6 6 (12.50%) Wireshark
7 4 (8.33%) LAN
7 4 (8.33%) WAN
8 3 (6.25%) Ethernet
8 3 (6.25%) MPLS
8 3 (6.25%) SDH
9 2 (4.17%) 5G NR
9 2 (4.17%) BGP
9 2 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (4.17%) IOS XR
9 2 (4.17%) LTE
9 2 (4.17%) OSPF
9 2 (4.17%) Unified Communications
9 2 (4.17%) Wireless
General
1 36 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (12.50%) Billing
2 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Electronics
4 3 (6.25%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 7 (14.58%) Network Design Specialist
2 7 (14.58%) Network Specialist
3 5 (10.42%) Field Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) OSS Project Manager
3 5 (10.42%) Telecoms Manager
3 5 (10.42%) Telecoms Project Manager
4 4 (8.33%) Project Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Network Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Network Project Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Telecoms Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Designer
6 2 (4.17%) Field Telecoms Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Product Owner
7 1 (2.08%) Network Capacity Planner
7 1 (2.08%) Network Field Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Radio Design Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Senior Design Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) Java RMI
1 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (20.83%) Blackberry
3 8 (16.67%) Driving Licence
4 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 6 (12.50%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.25%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.17%) SCADA
7 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 12 (25.00%) Migration
3 11 (22.92%) Thought Leadership
4 10 (20.83%) Customer Requirements
4 10 (20.83%) Impact Assessments
4 10 (20.83%) Product Roadmap
4 10 (20.83%) Project Management
4 10 (20.83%) Roadmaps
4 10 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (18.75%) Cost Reduction
5 9 (18.75%) Network Design
5 9 (18.75%) Service Design
5 9 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (18.75%) Validation
6 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (14.58%) Agile
7 7 (14.58%) Scrum
8 6 (12.50%) Fault Management
9 5 (10.42%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.08%) SC Cleared
3 12 (25.00%) CCNP
3 12 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 10 (20.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (10.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (10.42%) PMI Certification
5 5 (10.42%) PMP
6 3 (6.25%) HNC
7 2 (4.17%) CCNA
8 1 (2.08%) BC Cleared
8 1 (2.08%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Amdocs OSS
1 5 (10.42%) NSN NetAct
2 2 (4.17%) ZABBIX
3 1 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 34 (70.83%) Ericsson
2 23 (47.92%) Cisco
3 12 (25.00%) F5
3 12 (25.00%) Juniper
3 12 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 10 (20.83%) Avaya
4 10 (20.83%) Ribbon
4 10 (20.83%) VMware
5 6 (12.50%) Ciena
6 5 (10.42%) Amdocs
6 5 (10.42%) NetCracker
7 4 (8.33%) Huawei
8 2 (4.17%) Blue Prism
8 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.17%) Rakuten
8 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.08%) Oracle