Nokia Contracts

Nokia
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 493 643
Rank change year-on-year +58 +150 +78
Contract jobs citing Nokia 84 107 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.58% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 59 36
10th Percentile £308 £397 £319
25th Percentile £335 £510 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £600 £419
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +43.28% -20.24%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £525
90th Percentile £640 £656 £568
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -31.82% +33.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 4
10th Percentile - £24.15 £43.93
25th Percentile - £24.31 £60.69
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.14% +154.55%
75th Percentile - £33.75 -
90th Percentile - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £30.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year - -10.45% +28.85%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

Nokia
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Nokia as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Nokia in the UK

Nokia
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Nokia.

Daily rate trend for Nokia in the UK

Nokia
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nokia over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Nokia in the UK

Nokia
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Nokia.

Hourly rate trend for Nokia in the UK

Nokia
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +26 69 £490 -18.33% 16
UK excluding London +43 48 £375 -31.82% 11
South West +37 29 £425 -34.62% 2
London +15 28 £500 -16.67% 9
Work from Home +53 20 £490 -27.41% 10
Scotland +15 7 £325 - 3
South East +34 6 £610 +22.00% 2
North of England +26 3 £375 +7.14%
Channel Islands - 3 - -
North West +9 2 £375 +7.14%
Midlands +24 1 £291 -22.53% 1
West Midlands +16 1 £291 -22.53%
North East 0 1 £291 -
East of England - 1 £300 -

Nokia
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.38%) Appian
2 1 (1.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.19%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.10%) PaaS
1 11 (13.10%) SaaS
2 2 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (2.38%) AWS
2 2 (2.38%) IaaS
2 2 (2.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 33 (39.29%) 5G
2 28 (33.33%) 4G
3 24 (28.57%) Radio Access Network
4 14 (16.67%) MPLS
5 12 (14.29%) LTE
5 12 (14.29%) PBX
5 12 (14.29%) VoIP
6 11 (13.10%) 2G
7 10 (11.90%) 5G NR
7 10 (11.90%) BGP
7 10 (11.90%) OSPF
8 9 (10.71%) Wireshark
9 6 (7.14%) Firewall
10 5 (5.95%) Broadband
10 5 (5.95%) GGSN
10 5 (5.95%) GPON
10 5 (5.95%) IPv6
10 5 (5.95%) SDH
10 5 (5.95%) SS7
10 5 (5.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) GitLab
2 2 (2.38%) Git
General
1 55 (65.48%) Telecoms
2 11 (13.10%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.71%) Billing
4 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Electronics
5 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (20.24%) Network Engineer
2 7 (8.33%) Network Design Specialist
2 7 (8.33%) Network Specialist
3 6 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
3 6 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 5 (5.95%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (5.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (5.95%) Field Engineer
4 5 (5.95%) Implementation Engineer
4 5 (5.95%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 5 (5.95%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (5.95%) Principal Network Engineer
4 5 (5.95%) Support Engineer
5 4 (4.76%) Designer
5 4 (4.76%) OSS Project Manager
5 4 (4.76%) Project Engineer
5 4 (4.76%) Senior
5 4 (4.76%) Telecoms Engineer
5 4 (4.76%) Telecoms Manager
5 4 (4.76%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) XML
2 3 (3.57%) JSON
3 2 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.19%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.10%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (11.90%) Blackberry
4 9 (10.71%) Data Centre
5 8 (9.52%) Driving Licence
6 6 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (5.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (4.76%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (3.57%) Private Cloud
9 3 (3.57%) Replication
10 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
10 2 (2.38%) SCADA
11 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (30.95%) Migration
3 14 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 12 (14.29%) Agile
4 12 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
4 12 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 11 (13.10%) Fault Management
5 11 (13.10%) Network Design
5 11 (13.10%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (13.10%) Service Design
5 11 (13.10%) Thought Leadership
5 11 (13.10%) Validation
6 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
6 10 (11.90%) Impact Assessments
6 10 (11.90%) Product Roadmap
7 9 (10.71%) Cost Reduction
7 9 (10.71%) Network Monitoring
8 8 (9.52%) DevOps
8 8 (9.52%) High Availability
8 8 (9.52%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (3.57%) Java
2 3 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (22.62%) Cisco Certification
1 19 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.67%) CCNP
3 13 (15.48%) SC Cleared
4 12 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 10 (11.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (5.95%) CCIE
6 5 (5.95%) CCIE Service Provider
7 4 (4.76%) CCNA
7 4 (4.76%) HNC
7 4 (4.76%) PMI Certification
7 4 (4.76%) PMP
8 3 (3.57%) Degree
9 1 (1.19%) BC Cleared
9 1 (1.19%) HND
9 1 (1.19%) ISEB
9 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.19%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) SLA
2 4 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (15.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.57%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (3.57%) iptables
2 3 (3.57%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.57%) vSphere
3 1 (1.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (14.29%) Ansible
1 12 (14.29%) NSN NetAct
2 11 (13.10%) ZABBIX
3 4 (4.76%) Amdocs OSS
4 3 (3.57%) Cacti
4 3 (3.57%) Grafana
4 3 (3.57%) Nagios
4 3 (3.57%) Netcool
4 3 (3.57%) Proxmox
4 3 (3.57%) Puppet
5 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.38%) Terraform
6 1 (1.19%) Graylog
6 1 (1.19%) logstash
6 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (50.00%) Ericsson
2 33 (39.29%) Cisco
3 18 (21.43%) VMware
4 14 (16.67%) Juniper
5 13 (15.48%) Palo Alto
6 12 (14.29%) F5
7 10 (11.90%) Avaya
7 10 (11.90%) Huawei
7 10 (11.90%) Ribbon
8 8 (9.52%) SolarWinds
9 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
10 5 (5.95%) Ciena
11 4 (4.76%) Amdocs
11 4 (4.76%) Mavenir
11 4 (4.76%) NetCracker
12 3 (3.57%) Splunk
13 2 (2.38%) Blue Prism
13 2 (2.38%) Rakuten
13 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
14 1 (1.19%) Hitachi