Metaswitch Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Metaswitch
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metaswitch 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.087% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% - -
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £343 - -

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 995 871 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.53% 48.91% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 571 607
10th Percentile £338 £320 £350
25th Percentile £449 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.45%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £540 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +0.61% -2.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -25.52%

Metaswitch
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Metaswitch job vacancy trend in the City of London

Metaswitch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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