Microsoft Skype
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Skype skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 795 832 936
Rank change year-on-year +37 +104 -428
Permanent jobs citing Skype 101 138 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.74% 0.86% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 63 114 221
10th Percentile £30,700 £30,575 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,750 £54,688 £61,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +2.86% -30.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Skype is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

Skype
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Skype in the UK

Skype
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Skype.

Salary trend for Skype in the UK

Skype
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Skype over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Skype in the UK

Skype
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Skype within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +81 101 £41,500 +3.75% 32
UK excluding London -25 53 £40,000 +11.11% 19
London +138 48 £62,500 +55.28% 13
Work from Home +75 19 £52,000 -5.45% 13
North of England +47 17 £40,250 +11.81% 5
Midlands +6 16 £32,500 -10.34% 5
West Midlands +28 14 £32,500 - 3
South West +5 12 £55,000 +83.33% 4
Yorkshire +91 10 £44,000 +22.22%
North West +10 6 £40,000 -17.66% 3
East of England +7 5 £30,000 -45.45% 5
South East -1 3 £47,500 +35.71%
East Midlands -18 2 £35,000 -34.88% 2
North East -2 1 £31,500 -8.70% 2

Skype
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 71 (70.30%) Skype for Business
2 28 (27.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (15.84%) SharePoint
4 5 (4.95%) CMS
5 3 (2.97%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.99%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 64 (63.37%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Oracle Payables
1 6 (5.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (3.96%) Carpe Diem
Cloud Services
1 55 (54.46%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (7.92%) Azure
2 8 (7.92%) Mimecast
3 7 (6.93%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.94%) OCI
5 5 (4.95%) WhatsApp
6 4 (3.96%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.99%) AWS
7 1 (0.99%) GCP
7 1 (0.99%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 25 (24.75%) Cisco IOS
1 25 (24.75%) Telepresence
2 16 (15.84%) VoIP
3 13 (12.87%) VPN
4 11 (10.89%) DNS
5 10 (9.90%) Firewall
5 10 (9.90%) Internet
5 10 (9.90%) MPLS
5 10 (9.90%) SAN
5 10 (9.90%) TCP/IP
6 8 (7.92%) BGP
6 8 (7.92%) LAN
6 8 (7.92%) Network Security
6 8 (7.92%) OSPF
6 8 (7.92%) Reverse Proxy
6 8 (7.92%) SD-WAN
6 8 (7.92%) SSL
6 8 (7.92%) WAN
6 8 (7.92%) WebEx
6 8 (7.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (0.99%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 1 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 43 (42.57%) Finance
2 42 (41.58%) Social Skills
3 27 (26.73%) Automotive
3 27 (26.73%) Telecoms
4 26 (25.74%) Law
5 25 (24.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (11.88%) Legal
7 6 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.96%) Military
9 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Electronics
9 1 (0.99%) German Language
9 1 (0.99%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.99%) Marketing
9 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (32.67%) Support Engineer
2 24 (23.76%) Analyst
3 21 (20.79%) IT Support
4 14 (13.86%) Support Specialist
5 12 (11.88%) IT Support Specialist
6 10 (9.90%) Desktop Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) Desktop Support
6 10 (9.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 9 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (8.91%) Senior
8 8 (7.92%) IT Analyst
8 8 (7.92%) Network Analyst
8 8 (7.92%) Network Security Analyst
8 8 (7.92%) Security Analyst
8 8 (7.92%) Support Analyst
8 8 (7.92%) Wintel Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Graduate
9 7 (6.93%) Graduate Support Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (4.95%) Senior Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.92%) 802.1X
1 8 (7.92%) SAML
2 6 (5.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (3.96%) CSS
3 4 (3.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (49.50%) Video Conferencing
2 14 (13.86%) Data Centre
3 12 (11.88%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (8.91%) Management Information System
5 8 (7.92%) Client/Server
6 7 (6.93%) PKI
7 5 (4.95%) Smartphone
8 4 (3.96%) Clustering
8 4 (3.96%) Fat Client
8 4 (3.96%) Thin Client
9 2 (1.98%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.98%) Smartcard
10 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 71 (70.30%) Windows
2 43 (42.57%) Windows 10
3 29 (28.71%) Windows 7
4 19 (18.81%) Android
4 19 (18.81%) Windows Server
5 16 (15.84%) Apple iOS
6 9 (8.91%) Mac OS X
7 6 (5.94%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (4.95%) Linux
8 5 (4.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (4.95%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.98%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (40.59%) ITIL
2 28 (27.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (16.83%) Time Management
4 15 (14.85%) Information Security
4 15 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (13.86%) Customer Service
5 14 (13.86%) ITSM
6 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (11.88%) Inventory Management
7 10 (9.90%) Incident Management
8 9 (8.91%) Change Control
8 9 (8.91%) Service Management
9 8 (7.92%) Infrastructure Management
9 8 (7.92%) Load Balancing
10 6 (5.94%) Accounts Payable
10 6 (5.94%) Change Management
10 6 (5.94%) Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (5.94%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (5.94%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.89%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.93%) SQL
3 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (34.65%) Degree
2 25 (24.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 25 (24.75%) Master's Degree
2 25 (24.75%) MBA
3 5 (4.95%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.96%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.96%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.97%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.98%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) SLA
2 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.98%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 39 (38.61%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.89%) vSphere
3 7 (6.93%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.94%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.96%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 12 (11.88%) SCCM
2 8 (7.92%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.96%) AirWatch
3 4 (3.96%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.99%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.99%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.99%) OfficeScan
6 1 (0.99%) SCOM
6 1 (0.99%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 1 (0.99%) WSUS
Vendors
1 90 (89.11%) Microsoft
2 34 (33.66%) Apple
3 32 (31.68%) Cisco
4 26 (25.74%) Polycom
5 8 (7.92%) CheckPoint
5 8 (7.92%) Ribbon
6 6 (5.94%) Citrix
6 6 (5.94%) Oracle
6 6 (5.94%) Virgin Media
6 6 (5.94%) VMware
7 4 (3.96%) Dell
7 4 (3.96%) iManage
7 4 (3.96%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.97%) HP
8 3 (2.97%) Mitel
9 2 (1.98%) Acronis
9 2 (1.98%) EqualLogic
9 2 (1.98%) Symantec
9 2 (1.98%) Synology
10 1 (0.99%) Becrypt