Ciena Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Ciena
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 May 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 the Ciena Corporation.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 330 382
Rank change year-on-year -110 +52 +64
Contract jobs citing Ciena 2 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.047% 0.029%
As % of the Vendors category 0.020% 0.096% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £415 £413 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £425 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -37.04% +71.54%
75th Percentile £440 £438 £688
90th Percentile £445 £466 -
UK median daily rate £413 £425 £675
% change year-on-year -2.94% -37.04% +68.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.50
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £31.25

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 9,778 6,219 8,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.35% 48.65% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,255 3,944 5,276
10th Percentile £270 £220 £206
25th Percentile £400 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 427 935
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.42 £11.79
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.30 £14.16
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% +12.47% -45.64%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +19.09% +17.56% -48.57%

Ciena
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Ciena job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Ciena
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ciena.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ciena

Ciena
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ciena.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ciena

Ciena
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
South East -51 1 £445 -3.78%
North of England - 1 £413 -
Yorkshire - 1 £413 -
Ciena
UK

Ciena
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) IOS XR
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) TACACS
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) OSS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow