Unified Communications Contracts in the South West

Unified Communications
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 156 165
Rank change year-on-year +20 +9 -30
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 14 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.44% 0.47% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.62% 2.62% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 5
10th Percentile £556 £456 £454
25th Percentile £557 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £678 £575 £638
90th Percentile £744 £616 -
England median daily rate £525 £495 £456
% change year-on-year +6.06% +8.49% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £41.00 £33.50 £41.64
% change year-on-year +22.39% -19.54% +131.31%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 534 649 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.75% 17.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 422 298
10th Percentile £275 £207 £223
25th Percentile £460 £400 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £540
90th Percentile £713 £718 £619
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 128 34
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.13
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +9.91%
75th Percentile £70.66 £62.13 £66.46
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.58 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in the South West

Unified Communications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unified Communications in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Unified Communications in the South West

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unified Communications in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unified Communications in the South West

Unified Communications
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Wiltshire -1 12 £594 +8.05%
Bristol +14 2 £738 -1.67% 3
Unified Communications
England

Unified Communications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) WAN
2 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) LAN
3 4 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (21.43%) Skype
5 2 (14.29%) DHCP
5 2 (14.29%) DNS
6 1 (7.14%) Junos
6 1 (7.14%) Network Security
6 1 (7.14%) SDH
6 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (7.14%) VoIP
6 1 (7.14%) VSAN
6 1 (7.14%) Wireless
6 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
6 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Architect
2 9 (64.29%) Network Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 4 (28.57%) Lead Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) LAN Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) WAN Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
1 2 (14.29%) Windows 7
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Security Monitoring
1 5 (35.71%) SIEM
2 4 (28.57%) IT Strategy
2 4 (28.57%) Network Architecture
2 4 (28.57%) Network Management
2 4 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
2 4 (28.57%) Zero Trust
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) NsoIT
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
4 2 (14.29%) System Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.14%) Architecture Governance
5 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.14%) PQQ
5 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) CCNA
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.14%) CCNP
5 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (7.14%) HP ASE
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (7.14%) JNCIA
5 1 (7.14%) MCSE
5 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Server+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) WSUS
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) SCOM
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Cisco
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (21.43%) SolarWinds
3 3 (21.43%) VMware
4 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
4 2 (14.29%) Splunk
4 2 (14.29%) Veeam
5 1 (7.14%) Ciena
5 1 (7.14%) EMC
5 1 (7.14%) Google
5 1 (7.14%) Juniper
5 1 (7.14%) Nokia
5 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto