Unified Communications Contracts in Central London

Unified Communications
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Unified Communications skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unified Communications over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 166 192
Rank change year-on-year +40 +26 -54
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 7 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.29% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.90% 1.53% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile - £509 £281
25th Percentile - £529 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +0.88% +2.86%
75th Percentile £459 £575 £581
90th Percentile £476 £620 £593
London median daily rate £483 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -11.43% -0.95% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

Unified Communications 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 241 391 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.98% 10.17% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 272 352
10th Percentile £206 £210 £313
25th Percentile £350 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £600
90th Percentile £741 £750 £713
London median daily rate £500 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £16.59 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £17.99 £30.86 £64.35
London median hourly rate £22.75 £43.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -47.09% +32.31% -27.78%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in Central London

Unified Communications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Unified Communications in Central London

Unified Communications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unified Communications in Central London

Unified Communications
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 Unified Communications within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +50 6 £450 -17.39% 5
City of Westminster - 2 - - 1
Unified Communications
London

Unified Communications
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 3 (42.86%) IBM Domino
1 3 (42.86%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) SMTP
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
1 3 (42.86%) Wireless
2 2 (28.57%) WLAN
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Associate Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Network Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Network Design Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Presales Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Presales Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
1 3 (42.86%) Change Control
1 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (42.86%) Proactive Monitoring
1 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Business Development
3 1 (14.29%) Presales
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCIE
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) IBM
2 3 (42.86%) Lotus
2 3 (42.86%) Proofpoint
3 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Riverbed
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow