Skype Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Skype
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Skype skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Skype over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 176 187
Rank change year-on-year +43 +11 -43
Contract jobs citing Skype 3 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.12% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.25% 1.83% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile £270 - £313
25th Percentile £300 £231 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £238 £425
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -44.12% +2.41%
75th Percentile £550 £244 £625
90th Percentile £610 - £738
London median daily rate £380 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £21.00
London median hourly rate - £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

Skype is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 240 383 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.90% 10.13% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 267 338
10th Percentile £206 £200 £313
25th Percentile £321 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £610
90th Percentile £720 £743 £713
London median daily rate £500 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile - £20.46 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £24.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -48.15% +157.14%
75th Percentile £14.25 £24.64 £57.44
90th Percentile - £30.86 £63.43
London median hourly rate £23.50 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -41.25% +14.29% -26.32%

Skype
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Skype as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Skype in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Skype in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Skype in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Skype in Central London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Skype in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Skype in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Skype in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Skype within the Central London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
City of London +37 2 £450 +89.47% 1
City of Westminster - 1 £400 -
Skype
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) WebEx
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Audio Visual Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
1 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Database Mirroring
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Key Management
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Reuters
1 1 (33.33%) VMware