Nokia Contract Job Trends 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 18 October 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
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 317 355
Rank change year-on-year -35 +38 +99
Contract jobs citing Nokia 30 52 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.39% 0.68% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 32
10th Percentile £364 £413 £314
25th Percentile £413 £445 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £500 £424
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +17.99% +0.42%
75th Percentile £450 £525 £566
90th Percentile £466 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £22.81
25th Percentile £19.00 - £23.90
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile £21.00 - £28.13
90th Percentile - - £31.50
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £47.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -57.89% +90.00% +4.17%

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 7,752 7,672 9,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.30% 44.60% 46.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,821 4,412 6,426
10th Percentile £220 £220 £210
25th Percentile £363 £383 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.32%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £600
90th Percentile £655 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 634 473 529
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.00 £14.34
25th Percentile £17.10 £15.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £21.29 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% -29.41% +100.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £33.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -27.27% -24.79% +82.83%

Nokia
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Nokia relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Nokia job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Nokia
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Nokia.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Nokia

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 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Nokia in the UK excluding London

Nokia
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Nokia.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Nokia

Nokia
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 18 October 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 +10 16 £450 - 2
South East -11 10 £400 -20.79% 3
Yorkshire -21 4 £435 +61.11%
North of England -30 4 £435 -3.33%
East of England - 2 - - 1
Scotland +3 1 £360 +30.43%
Midlands -13 1 - - 1
West Midlands -16 1 - - 1
Nokia
UK

Nokia
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (6.67%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) PaaS
1 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (20.00%) 5G
2 6 (20.00%) Wireshark
3 5 (16.67%) 4G
3 5 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 5 (16.67%) LTE
4 4 (13.33%) DWDM
4 4 (13.33%) MPLS
4 4 (13.33%) SDH
4 4 (13.33%) SD-WAN
5 3 (10.00%) 3GPP
5 3 (10.00%) VoIP
5 3 (10.00%) WAN
6 2 (6.67%) DOCSIS
6 2 (6.67%) Firewall
6 2 (6.67%) GPON
6 2 (6.67%) LAN
6 2 (6.67%) xDSL
7 1 (3.33%) FCAPS
7 1 (3.33%) NGN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 23 (76.67%) Telecoms
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Billing
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 8 (26.67%) Network Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Network Manager
3 7 (23.33%) Network Project Manager
4 5 (16.67%) Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Test Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Network Design Specialist
5 3 (10.00%) Network Specialist
5 3 (10.00%) OSS Project Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Performance Specialist
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Telecoms Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Telecoms Project Manager
6 2 (6.67%) OSS Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Telecoms Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Designer
7 1 (3.33%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) TM Forum
3 1 (3.33%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Project Management
1 10 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (26.67%) Service Delivery
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) Service Management
4 5 (16.67%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) Fault Management
4 5 (16.67%) Network Management
4 5 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (13.33%) ITIL
5 4 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (13.33%) TOGAF
6 3 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (10.00%) High Availability
6 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (10.00%) Test Planning
6 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 3 (10.00%) PMP
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.33%) BC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.33%) CCNA
5 1 (3.33%) CCNP
5 1 (3.33%) HNC
5 1 (3.33%) MCP
5 1 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
2 2 (6.67%) OASIS TOSCA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) NSN NetAct
2 6 (20.00%) Amdocs OSS
2 6 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Ericsson
2 11 (36.67%) Cisco
3 8 (26.67%) Juniper
4 5 (16.67%) Amdocs
4 5 (16.67%) NetCracker
4 5 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 4 (13.33%) Ciena
6 3 (10.00%) Actix
6 3 (10.00%) F5
6 3 (10.00%) Huawei
6 3 (10.00%) Meraki
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (6.67%) Cramer
7 2 (6.67%) IBM
8 1 (3.33%) Avaya
8 1 (3.33%) Ribbon
8 1 (3.33%) VMware