Ribbon Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Ribbon
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Ribbon products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ribbon over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 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 Ribbon Communications (formerly Sonus Networks).

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ribbon 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.058% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - £490 £483
% change year-on-year - +1.55% -16.09%

All Vendors
West Midlands

Ribbon 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,589 812 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.82% 47.65% 46.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 518 603
10th Percentile £316 £230 £263
25th Percentile £402 £350 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £613
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 29 19
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.86 £13.85
25th Percentile £19.82 £24.66 £15.11
Median hourly rate £27.30 £30.00 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +14.83% +16.11%
75th Percentile £49.00 £43.25 £50.25
90th Percentile £64.15 £50.00 £58.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.17% -16.17% -20.00%

Ribbon
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ribbon relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Ribbon job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Ribbon
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Ribbon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Ribbon

Ribbon
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ribbon within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Birmingham - 2 - -
Ribbon
England

Ribbon
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk