Metaswitch Contract Job Trends in Central London

Metaswitch
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of Metaswitch products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metaswitch over the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Metaswitch Networks.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metaswitch 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.080% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £319 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile £373 - -
London median daily rate £343 - -

All Vendors
Central London

Metaswitch falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,091 946 998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.71% 48.14% 43.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 624 672
10th Percentile £313 £313 £338
25th Percentile £431 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -2.41% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £762 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £533
% change year-on-year - -1.50% -4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.42 £16.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -25.52%
75th Percentile £41.25 £56.75 £92.50
90th Percentile £64.25 £64.48 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +34.98% -12.33% -16.67%

Metaswitch
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metaswitch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Metaswitch job vacancy trend in Central London

Metaswitch
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metaswitch within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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
City of London - 2 £343 - 2
Metaswitch
London

Metaswitch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) RTP
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) INAP
2 1 (50.00%) Intelligent Network
2 1 (50.00%) RTCP
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Locust
1 1 (50.00%) Newman
1 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (50.00%) TestCafe
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) Servlets
1 1 (50.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Media Streaming
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle