Metaswitch Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Metaswitch
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metaswitch 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
England median daily rate £359 - -

All Vendors
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 628 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 35.62% 49.10% 40.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 305 252
10th Percentile £190 £213 £220
25th Percentile £350 £413 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £604 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £686 £644
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 105 190
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £31.93 £21.28 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +50.02% +31.12% -50.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £71.00 £65.00 £67.55
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.71%

Metaswitch
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Metaswitch job vacancy trend in the East of England

Metaswitch
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metaswitch within the East of England 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
Suffolk - 3 £367 - 6
Metaswitch
England

Metaswitch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) RTP
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) Asterisk PBX
2 2 (66.67%) RTCP
2 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) INAP
3 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Locust
1 1 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (33.33%) TestCafe
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) FreeSWITCH
1 2 (66.67%) Servlets
1 2 (66.67%) WebRTC
2 1 (33.33%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational AI
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MOS
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Dialogic