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 7 December 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
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 342 398
Rank change year-on-year -54 +56 -
Contract jobs citing Ciena 3 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.11% 0.069%
As % of the Vendors category 0.036% 0.25% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 9
10th Percentile £410 £293 £295
25th Percentile £415 £399 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £412 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -41.21% -
75th Percentile £440 £438 -
90th Percentile £445 £525 £800
UK median daily rate £413 £408 £700
% change year-on-year +1.10% -41.71% +42.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.17
25th Percentile £19.00 - £24.79
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £30.00
75th Percentile £21.00 - £33.13
90th Percentile - - £33.50
UK median hourly rate £20.00 - £32.50

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 8,447 7,199 9,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.30% 45.43% 47.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,470 4,243 6,118
10th Percentile £220 £220 £210
25th Percentile £375 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 660 410 538
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.21 £14.46
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.06 £17.81
Median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £61.96
90th Percentile £74.26 £74.48 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%

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 7 December 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
South East -16 2 £445 -15.24% 2
North of England -50 1 £413 +1.16%
Yorkshire -50 1 £413 +1.16%
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 (33.33%) 5G
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) DWDM
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
1 1 (33.33%) IOS XR
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) NGN
1 1 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (33.33%) SDH
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) SNMP
1 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) TACACS
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) OSS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Transmission Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Management
1 1 (33.33%) Network Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Process Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Spectrum Management
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Cramer
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) Nokia
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow