Skype Contracts in England

Microsoft Skype
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 501 568
Rank change year-on-year +41 +67 -144
Contract jobs citing Skype 75 162 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.50% 2.62% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 98 129
10th Percentile £207 £283 £153
25th Percentile £265 £393 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £461 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +8.41% -
75th Percentile £650 £575 £488
90th Percentile £710 £638 £588
UK median daily rate £435 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -8.42% +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.25 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £21.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £46.88 £59.25 £69.05
90th Percentile £57.75 £82.20 -
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £21.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +35.71% -8.70% +2.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,003 6,173 7,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,061 5,228
10th Percentile £206 £231 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 442 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.46
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

Skype
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Skype in England

Skype
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Skype in England

Skype
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Skype in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Skype in England

Skype
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Skype in England

Skype
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Skype in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Skype in England

Skype
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Skype within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +89 35 £375 -21.05% 13
North of England +42 17 £625 +38.89% 5
North West +27 16 £625 +38.89% 3
South West -12 13 £600 +14.29% 4
South East -8 8 £464 +16.67%
West Midlands +31 2 - - 3
Midlands +24 2 - - 5
Yorkshire +18 1 £282 -33.76%
Skype
UK

Skype
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 44 (58.67%) Skype for Business
2 38 (50.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (25.33%) SharePoint
4 11 (14.67%) Exchange Server 2003
4 11 (14.67%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (14.67%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (6.67%) Confluence
7 4 (5.33%) CMS
8 2 (2.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (2.67%) Exchange Server 5.5
9 1 (1.33%) nginx
Applications
1 31 (41.33%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (52.00%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (14.67%) Azure
2 11 (14.67%) Entra ID
2 11 (14.67%) OneDrive
3 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Stack
4 1 (1.33%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 20 (26.67%) LAN
1 20 (26.67%) WAN
2 12 (16.00%) ISDN
2 12 (16.00%) Network Security
3 11 (14.67%) Converged Networks
3 11 (14.67%) VoIP
4 9 (12.00%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (10.67%) Firewall
6 7 (9.33%) DNS
7 6 (8.00%) DHCP
7 6 (8.00%) Unified Communications
8 5 (6.67%) VPN
9 3 (4.00%) SMTP
9 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
9 3 (4.00%) VSAN
10 2 (2.67%) Broadband
10 2 (2.67%) NAS
10 2 (2.67%) SAN
10 2 (2.67%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (2.67%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) Power BI
1 3 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 27 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.33%) Finance
3 14 (18.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Legal
4 5 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Military
5 3 (4.00%) Police
6 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.33%) Electronics
6 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) Architect
1 14 (18.67%) IT Support
2 12 (16.00%) Voice Architect
3 11 (14.67%) Support Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Analyst
5 9 (12.00%) Senior
6 6 (8.00%) IT Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Wintel Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Support Officer
8 4 (5.33%) Administrator
8 4 (5.33%) Desktop Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Desktop Support
8 4 (5.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) IT Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (5.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) .NET
1 1 (1.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.67%) Video Conferencing
2 16 (21.33%) iPhone
3 9 (12.00%) CMDB
3 9 (12.00%) PKI
4 7 (9.33%) Management Information System
5 6 (8.00%) Blackberry
6 3 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.67%) Clustering
7 2 (2.67%) Fat Client
7 2 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.67%) Replication
7 2 (2.67%) Smartphone
7 2 (2.67%) Thin Client
8 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.33%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (61.33%) Windows
2 22 (29.33%) Windows Server
3 20 (26.67%) Windows 10
4 15 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (16.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 11 (14.67%) Windows 7
7 10 (13.33%) Apple iOS
8 9 (12.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 8 (10.67%) Linux
10 7 (9.33%) Android
10 7 (9.33%) Mac OS X
11 3 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.00%) ITIL
2 19 (25.33%) Customer Service
2 19 (25.33%) ITSM
3 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (16.00%) Migration
5 11 (14.67%) Impact Assessments
5 11 (14.67%) Mobile Device Management
5 11 (14.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 11 (14.67%) Service Design
5 11 (14.67%) Service Management
6 8 (10.67%) Agile
7 7 (9.33%) Change Management
8 4 (5.33%) Computer Science
8 4 (5.33%) Resource Management
8 4 (5.33%) Service Delivery
9 3 (4.00%) Financial Modelling
9 3 (4.00%) Matrix Management
9 3 (4.00%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (4.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (4.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (38.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (22.67%) Degree
4 8 (10.67%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.33%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (4.00%) MCP
7 2 (2.67%) CCNA
7 2 (2.67%) CCNP
7 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.67%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.33%) MCSE
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) SLA
2 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 46 (61.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (17.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (5.33%) Docker
5 3 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.00%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (28.00%) SCCM
2 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (12.00%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (10.67%) SCOM
5 4 (5.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (5.33%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (4.00%) OPNET
6 3 (4.00%) vCenter Server
6 3 (4.00%) WSUS
7 2 (2.67%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (2.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 1 (1.33%) Ansible
8 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.33%) Puppet
8 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 28 (37.33%) Citrix
3 18 (24.00%) Apple
4 17 (22.67%) ServiceNow
4 17 (22.67%) VMware
5 15 (20.00%) Cisco
6 7 (9.33%) Mitel
6 7 (9.33%) Progress
7 6 (8.00%) EMC
7 6 (8.00%) SolarWinds
8 4 (5.33%) Becrypt
9 3 (4.00%) Remedy
9 3 (4.00%) SAP
9 3 (4.00%) Splunk
9 3 (4.00%) Veeam
10 2 (2.67%) Atlassian
10 2 (2.67%) IronPort
10 2 (2.67%) Polycom
10 2 (2.67%) Symantec
11 1 (1.33%) Proofpoint