Skype Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Skype
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Skype skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Skype over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 125 168
Rank change year-on-year +4 +43 +20
Contract jobs citing Skype 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.091% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% 0.96% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £290 -
25th Percentile - £350 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £238
Median % change year-on-year - +89.47% -60.42%
75th Percentile - £550 £244
90th Percentile - £610 -
Central London median daily rate £475 £400 £238
% change year-on-year +18.75% +68.42% -44.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £21.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

Skype falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 168 209 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.57% 9.53% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 139 252
10th Percentile £258 £202 £250
25th Percentile £466 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.06% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £622 £675
90th Percentile £741 £755 £750
Central London median daily rate £539 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.72% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Skype as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Skype in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Skype in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Skype in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Skype in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Skype in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Messaging Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) BYOD
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (100.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware