Huawei Contract Job Trends

Huawei
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Huawei products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Huawei over the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, 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 Huawei Technologies.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 514 568
Rank change year-on-year -104 +54 +113
Contract jobs citing Huawei 12 17 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.055% 0.078%
As % of the Vendors category 0.064% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 14
10th Percentile £283 £260 £97
25th Percentile £327 £265 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £289 £416
Median % change year-on-year +64.36% -30.57% +4.06%
75th Percentile £513 £293 £460
90th Percentile £525 £325 £539
UK excluding London median daily rate £290 £288 £416
% change year-on-year +0.87% -30.93% +4.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.50
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £33.13
90th Percentile - - £33.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £30.00

All Vendors
UK

Huawei 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,869 14,335 19,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.18% 46.77% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,083 8,807 12,126
10th Percentile £306 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -3.12%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 454 1,014
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.47 £21.24 £14.71
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £54.39
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.68 £27.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -17.53% +14.58% -26.15%

Huawei
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Huawei relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Huawei job vacancy trend in the UK

Huawei
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Huawei.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Huawei

Huawei
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Huawei over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Huawei in the UK

Huawei
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Huawei.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Huawei

Huawei
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Huawei within the UK over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
England -104 11 £475 +65.22% 15
London - 6 £475 - 5
UK excluding London -85 5 £290 +0.87% 12
South West - 4 - - 8
Work from Home -30 1 £300 -11.11% 3
West Midlands -56 1 £290 +0.35%
Midlands -66 1 £290 +0.35%

Huawei
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Radio Access Network
2 10 (83.33%) 5G
3 8 (66.67%) 4G
4 5 (41.67%) LTE
5 2 (16.67%) 2G
5 2 (16.67%) 3G
5 2 (16.67%) 5G NR
6 1 (8.33%) 3GPP
6 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
6 1 (8.33%) LAN
6 1 (8.33%) MPLS
6 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (8.33%) VPN
6 1 (8.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Electronics
4 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) RAN Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Design Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Network Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Optimisation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Field Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Field Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) RAN Design Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Industry 4.0
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (16.67%) Benchmarking
3 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Network Design
3 2 (16.67%) Network Optimisation
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (8.33%) Microservices
4 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (8.33%) People Management
4 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
4 1 (8.33%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
2 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Nokia
2 9 (75.00%) Ericsson
3 2 (16.67%) Actix
4 1 (8.33%) BT
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Juniper
4 1 (8.33%) Samsung