Ribbon Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ribbon
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 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 Ribbon Communications (formerly Sonus Networks).

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 344 467
Rank change year-on-year +46 +123 +159
Contract jobs citing Ribbon 6 1 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.007% 0.039%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.015% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £379
25th Percentile - £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £545 £488 £544
90th Percentile £554 - £570
UK median daily rate £545 £483 £475
% change year-on-year +12.95% +1.58% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.25 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £64.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.50 - £60.00

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Ribbon
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Ribbon as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ribbon trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Ribbon
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ribbon.

Ribbon daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ribbon
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Aviation
2 2 (33.33%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (33.33%) Police
2 2 (33.33%) Swedish Language
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Voice Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Robotics
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 2 (33.33%) SIEM
1 2 (33.33%) SOAR
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
1 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Tenable