Skype for Business Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Lync)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Skype for Business skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Skype for Business over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 109
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Skype for Business 5 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.53% - 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.67% - 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £509 - £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £304
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.53%
75th Percentile £584 - £384
90th Percentile £601 - £409
England median daily rate £550 £300 £425
% change year-on-year +83.33% -29.41% -

All Application Platform Skills
East of England

Skype for Business falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 107 157 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.42% 8.20% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 105 162
10th Percentile £235 £202 £234
25th Percentile £372 £288 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £521 £563
90th Percentile £675 £583 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 25
10th Percentile £49.24 £12.13 -
25th Percentile £61.50 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £66.00 £14.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.43% -17.65% +17.24%
75th Percentile £77.50 £15.39 £23.00
90th Percentile £176.50 £18.73 £65.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £33.75
% change year-on-year +90.91% -18.52% +61.56%

Skype for Business
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Skype for Business as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Skype for Business in the East of England

Skype for Business
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Skype for Business in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Skype for Business in the East of England

Skype for Business
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Skype for Business in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Skype for Business in the East of England

Skype for Business
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 Skype for Business within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Hertfordshire - 5 £538 -
Skype for Business
England

Skype for Business
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (80.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Skype
2 4 (80.00%) IMAP
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) SMTP
3 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Electronics
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Messaging Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Exchange Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Messaging Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Architect
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) SCOM
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) NetApp
3 2 (40.00%) SAP
4 1 (20.00%) Fujitsu
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat