Ciena
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Ciena products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ciena over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 706 826
Rank change year-on-year +123 +120 -150
Contract jobs citing Ciena 11 10 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.017% 0.033%
As % of the Vendors category 0.060% 0.039% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 20
10th Percentile £428 £371 £271
25th Percentile £581 £372 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% +14.29% -17.65%
75th Percentile £688 £425 £488
90th Percentile - £602 £504
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £394 £350
% change year-on-year +71.54% +12.43% -17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.58
25th Percentile £27.50 - £25.69
Median hourly rate £31.25 - £26.75
75th Percentile £33.75 - £28.19
90th Percentile - - £28.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Vendors
UK

Ciena is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,599 35,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.57% 42.88% 39.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,421 17,163 23,490
10th Percentile £263 £273 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 691 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.03 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.16
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% +0.85%

Ciena
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ciena in the UK

Ciena
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ciena in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ciena over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ciena in the UK

Ciena
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ciena in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ciena within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 +119 11 £675 +68.75% 2
UK excluding London +69 8 £675 +71.54%
Work from Home +127 6 £675 +71.54% 2
South West - 5 £675 -
London +108 3 £500 -2.44% 2
South East +18 2 - -
North West - 1 £338 -
North of England - 1 £338 -

Ciena
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) SDH
2 5 (45.45%) DWDM
2 5 (45.45%) Ethernet
2 5 (45.45%) Junos
3 4 (36.36%) SD-WAN
3 4 (36.36%) WAN
4 2 (18.18%) SONET
5 1 (9.09%) BGP
5 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
5 1 (9.09%) MPLS
5 1 (9.09%) Network Security
5 1 (9.09%) OSPF
5 1 (9.09%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
2 4 (36.36%) Aeronautics
2 4 (36.36%) Aerospace
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
1 5 (45.45%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Support
3 1 (9.09%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Optical Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) ArchiMate
1 5 (45.45%) Architecture Governance
1 5 (45.45%) BPMN
1 5 (45.45%) Customer Requirements
1 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (45.45%) TOGAF
2 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
2 4 (36.36%) Commercial Awareness
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) Customer Engagement
2 4 (36.36%) Digital Strategy
2 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
2 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
2 4 (36.36%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (9.09%) Boundary Protection
3 1 (9.09%) PQQ
3 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (45.45%) JNCIA
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) CCNP
3 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) HND
3 4 (36.36%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (9.09%) CCNA
4 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (9.09%) HP ASE
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco
1 9 (81.82%) Juniper
1 9 (81.82%) Nokia
2 5 (45.45%) Palo Alto
3 4 (36.36%) IBM
4 2 (18.18%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 2 (18.18%) Huawei
5 1 (9.09%) EMC
5 1 (9.09%) Google
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.09%) VMware