Skype for Business Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Lync)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Skype for Business skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Skype for Business over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 179 239
Rank change year-on-year -18 +60 -47
Contract jobs citing Skype for Business 4 42 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.072% 0.72% 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.06% 6.66% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 32 20
10th Percentile £299 £305 £139
25th Percentile £353 £310 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £398 £274
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +45.21% -29.35%
75th Percentile £581 £478 £345
90th Percentile £640 £595 £576
England median daily rate £300 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -29.41% - -

All Application Platform Skills
South East

Skype for Business is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 376 631 982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.81% 10.86% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 458 633
10th Percentile £225 £230 £178
25th Percentile £325 £346 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +1.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £563
90th Percentile £608 £696 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 36
10th Percentile £16.00 £22.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £50.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.94% +177.50% -21.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £41.06
90th Percentile £76.50 £77.51 £52.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +42.86% +2.44%

Skype for Business
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Skype for Business as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Skype for Business in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Skype for Business in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Skype for Business in the South East

Skype for Business
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Skype for Business in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Skype for Business in the South East

Skype for Business
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Skype for Business in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Skype for Business in the South East

Skype for Business
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Skype for Business within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Hampshire -20 3 £653 +53.53%
Kent - 1 £275 -
Skype for Business
England

Skype for Business
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Skype
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) Telepresence
3 1 (25.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Apple
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Polycom
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam
3 1 (25.00%) VMware