Unified Communications Contracts in the City of London

Unified Communications
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 166 188
Rank change year-on-year +43 +22 -64
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 6 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.80% 1.66% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile - £542 £281
25th Percentile - £545 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -18.11% +1.76% +2.86%
75th Percentile - £600 £581
90th Percentile - £630 £593
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -18.11% +1.76% +2.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 361 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.63% 9.90% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 245 326
10th Percentile £221 £239 £313
25th Percentile £350 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +4.53%
75th Percentile £620 £675 £615
90th Percentile £775 £764 £713
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
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
Central London median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in the City of London

Unified Communications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unified Communications in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Unified Communications in the City of London

Unified Communications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unified Communications in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Unified Communications in the City of London

Unified Communications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (50.00%) IBM Domino
1 3 (50.00%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) SMTP
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
1 3 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Associate Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Network Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Network Design Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Presales Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Presales Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 3 (50.00%) Change Control
1 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Business Development
3 1 (16.67%) Presales
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCIE
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) Lotus
2 3 (50.00%) Proofpoint
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Riverbed