Ciena Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Ciena
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Ciena products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ciena over the 6 months leading up to 22 November 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 Ciena Corporation.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 84 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs citing Ciena 1 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.055% 0.82% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 1.95% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £388 -
25th Percentile £406 £402 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £408 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% - -
75th Percentile £419 £434 -
90th Percentile - £438 -
England median daily rate £413 £408 £700
% change year-on-year +1.10% -41.71% -

All Vendors
Yorkshire

Ciena 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 833 565 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 45.87% 42.04% 49.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 322 581
10th Percentile £284 £230 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +1.52% -1.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £638 £665 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 10
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.68 £15.98
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.35 £18.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +152.87% -1.14% +3.92%
75th Percentile £81.25 £41.50 -
90th Percentile - £42.50 £28.55
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.75 £44.75
% change year-on-year -23.66% -26.82% +66.57%

Ciena
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Ciena job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Ciena
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Ciena.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Ciena

Ciena
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ciena within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
West Yorkshire -27 1 £413 +1.16%
Ciena
England

Ciena
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) IOS XR
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) TACACS
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki