Unified Communications Contracts in the City of London

Unified Communications
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Unified Communications skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unified Communications over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 121 172
Rank change year-on-year +7 +51 +15
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 5 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.96% 2.84% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £509
25th Percentile - - £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% +0.88%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - £620
Central London median daily rate £500 £450 £545
% change year-on-year +11.11% -17.39% +0.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

Unified Communications 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 169 211 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.62% 9.60% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 141 249
10th Percentile £258 £213 £246
25th Percentile £475 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £744 £775 £759
Central London median daily rate £538 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.44% -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%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in the City of London

Unified Communications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Unified Communications in the City of London

Unified Communications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unified Communications in the City of London

Unified Communications
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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) H.323
2 1 (20.00%) MGCP
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Billing
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Multimedia
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Signage
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Market Research
3 1 (20.00%) PLM
3 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Logitech