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 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 482 636
Rank change year-on-year +40 +154 +90
Contract jobs citing Nokia 81 97 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 0.54% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 53 34
10th Percentile £313 £353 £322
25th Percentile £372 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £600 £438
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% +37.14% -16.67%
75th Percentile £545 £613 £525
90th Percentile £615 £650 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -22.73% +33.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.14% +169.23%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £30.00 -

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 14,048 18,051 24,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.71% 42.37% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,759 11,216 16,323
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £630 £645
90th Percentile £712 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 1,110 662
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.02 £15.02
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.40 £21.50 £40.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -46.97% +88.58%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.88 £21.46 £34.00
% change year-on-year +6.59% -36.88% +81.82%

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 18 May 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 11 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 18 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
England +26 68 £480 -20.00% 31
UK excluding London +32 43 £425 -22.73% 23
London +33 29 £500 -16.67% 11
South West +31 28 £425 -34.62% 2
Work from Home +42 17 £480 -11.72% 13
Scotland - 7 £325 -
South East +33 6 £463 -7.50% 11
North of England +20 3 £375 +7.14% 4
North West +10 2 £375 +7.14% 3
North East -5 1 £291 -
East of England - 1 £300 - 1

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 (2.47%) Camunda
2 1 (1.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.23%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.58%) PaaS
1 11 (13.58%) SaaS
2 2 (2.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (2.47%) AWS
2 2 (2.47%) IaaS
2 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 33 (40.74%) 5G
2 24 (29.63%) 4G
3 19 (23.46%) Radio Access Network
4 16 (19.75%) MPLS
5 15 (18.52%) LTE
6 14 (17.28%) VoIP
7 12 (14.81%) PBX
8 11 (13.58%) 5G NR
9 10 (12.35%) BGP
9 10 (12.35%) OSPF
10 7 (8.64%) GPON
11 6 (7.41%) 2G
11 6 (7.41%) Firewall
12 5 (6.17%) 3G
12 5 (6.17%) Broadband
12 5 (6.17%) IPv6
12 5 (6.17%) Multicast
12 5 (6.17%) SDH
12 5 (6.17%) VPN
12 5 (6.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) GitLab
2 2 (2.47%) Git
General
1 55 (67.90%) Telecoms
2 16 (19.75%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Billing
4 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Finance
6 3 (3.70%) Electronics
7 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Network Engineer
2 11 (13.58%) Project Manager
3 6 (7.41%) OSS Project Manager
3 6 (7.41%) Telecoms Manager
3 6 (7.41%) Telecoms Project Manager
4 5 (6.17%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Implementation Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Network Manager
4 5 (6.17%) Network Project Manager
4 5 (6.17%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Principal Network Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Senior
5 4 (4.94%) Design Engineer
5 4 (4.94%) Designer
5 4 (4.94%) Field Engineer
5 4 (4.94%) Project Engineer
5 4 (4.94%) Telecoms Engineer
6 3 (3.70%) Radio Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) XML
2 3 (3.70%) JSON
3 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.23%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.58%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (12.35%) Blackberry
4 9 (11.11%) Data Centre
5 8 (9.88%) Driving Licence
6 5 (6.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (4.94%) Fibre Optics
7 4 (4.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (3.70%) Private Cloud
8 3 (3.70%) Replication
9 2 (2.47%) SCADA
9 2 (2.47%) TM Forum
10 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (30.86%) Migration
3 13 (16.05%) Project Management
4 12 (14.81%) Commercial Awareness
4 12 (14.81%) Customer Requirements
4 12 (14.81%) Fault Management
4 12 (14.81%) Roadmaps
4 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (13.58%) Agile
5 11 (13.58%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (13.58%) Service Design
5 11 (13.58%) Validation
6 10 (12.35%) Impact Assessments
7 9 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
7 9 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
7 9 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
8 8 (9.88%) High Availability
8 8 (9.88%) Product Roadmap
8 8 (9.88%) Project Delivery
9 7 (8.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.11%) Python
2 3 (3.70%) Java
2 3 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (23.46%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (19.75%) Security Cleared
3 14 (17.28%) CCNP
4 13 (16.05%) SC Cleared
5 12 (14.81%) DV Cleared
6 10 (12.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (7.41%) PMI Certification
7 6 (7.41%) PMP
8 5 (6.17%) CCIE
8 5 (6.17%) CCIE Service Provider
8 5 (6.17%) Degree
9 4 (4.94%) CCNA
9 4 (4.94%) HNC
10 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
11 2 (2.47%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (1.23%) BC Cleared
12 1 (1.23%) HND
12 1 (1.23%) ISEB
12 1 (1.23%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) SLA
2 3 (3.70%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) OASIS TOSCA
4 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (16.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.70%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (3.70%) iptables
2 3 (3.70%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.70%) vSphere
3 1 (1.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (16.05%) NSN NetAct
2 11 (13.58%) Ansible
2 11 (13.58%) ZABBIX
3 8 (9.88%) Amdocs OSS
4 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.70%) Cacti
5 3 (3.70%) Grafana
5 3 (3.70%) Nagios
5 3 (3.70%) Netcool
5 3 (3.70%) Proxmox
5 3 (3.70%) Puppet
6 2 (2.47%) Terraform
7 1 (1.23%) Graylog
7 1 (1.23%) logstash
7 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (50.62%) Ericsson
2 31 (38.27%) Cisco
3 18 (22.22%) VMware
4 14 (17.28%) Juniper
5 13 (16.05%) Palo Alto
6 12 (14.81%) F5
7 10 (12.35%) Avaya
7 10 (12.35%) Ribbon
8 9 (11.11%) Microsoft
9 8 (9.88%) Amdocs
9 8 (9.88%) Huawei
9 8 (9.88%) NetCracker
9 8 (9.88%) SolarWinds
10 7 (8.64%) Ciena
11 4 (4.94%) Mavenir
12 3 (3.70%) Splunk
13 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
14 1 (1.23%) Dell
14 1 (1.23%) Hitachi
14 1 (1.23%) Nortel