Ribbon Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ribbon
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Ribbon products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ribbon over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 437 508
Rank change year-on-year +51 +71 -83
Contract jobs citing Ribbon 11 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.029% 0.006%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.065% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £460 £398 £356
25th Percentile £472 £448 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £538 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% +22.72% +3.06%
75th Percentile £648 £566 £494
90th Percentile £668 £579 £520
UK median daily rate £483 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +1.58% -9.52% +20.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Ribbon is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,902 10,691 12,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.89% 44.56% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,347 7,366 8,359
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 953 474 642
10th Percentile £11.80 £14.28 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.72 £13.89
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year -44.26% +106.79% +0.64%
75th Percentile £58.70 £63.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £54.65
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £43.75 £21.02
% change year-on-year -49.54% +108.14% -6.24%

Ribbon
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Ribbon in the UK excluding London

Ribbon
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Ribbon in the UK excluding London

Ribbon
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ribbon in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ribbon in the UK excluding London

Ribbon
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 Ribbon within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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 - 9 £644 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £474 -
North of England - 2 £474 -
Ribbon
UK

Ribbon
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
1 9 (81.82%) PaaS
1 9 (81.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) PBX
2 10 (90.91%) VoIP
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) Softswitch
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Rational DOORS
General
1 11 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (63.64%) Digital Economy
3 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Architect
1 9 (81.82%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Design Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Design Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) VoIP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Blackberry
1 9 (81.82%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) ArchiMate
1 9 (81.82%) BPMN
1 9 (81.82%) Enterprise Architecture
1 9 (81.82%) ITIL
1 9 (81.82%) TOGAF
2 8 (72.73%) Zero Trust
3 7 (63.64%) Architecture Governance
3 7 (63.64%) Customer Engagement
3 7 (63.64%) Decision-Making
3 7 (63.64%) Digital Strategy
3 7 (63.64%) PQQ
3 7 (63.64%) Roadmaps
3 7 (63.64%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Commercial Awareness
4 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 3 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Defect Management
6 1 (9.09%) Presales
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) DV Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) TOGAF Certification
3 7 (63.64%) Degree
3 7 (63.64%) HND
4 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) CCNP
5 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
3 9 (81.82%) Avaya
3 9 (81.82%) Ericsson
3 9 (81.82%) Google
3 9 (81.82%) IBM
3 9 (81.82%) Juniper
3 9 (81.82%) Nokia
4 3 (27.27%) VMware