Unified Communications Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Unified Communications
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Unified Communications skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 117 126
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +50
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.35% 1.52% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £275 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £300 £450
Median % change year-on-year +104.31% -33.33% -18.14%
75th Percentile - £325 £497
90th Percentile - - £581
Central London median daily rate £613 £300 £450
% change year-on-year +104.31% -33.33% -18.11%

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 148 197 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.22% 10.30% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 129 169
10th Percentile £349 £275 £293
25th Percentile £423 £463 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +3.41% -6.82%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £619
90th Percentile £738 £733 £713
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.31 - £24.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £46.97
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% -30.80% +129.10%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £62.86
90th Percentile £42.74 - £71.64
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Unified Communications job vacancy trend in the City of London

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Unified Communications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Unified Communications

Unified Communications
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Unified Communications.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Unified Communications

Unified Communications
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) International Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) E-Discovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Verint