Unified Communications Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Unified Communications
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Unified Communications skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% - 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.95% - 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.17%
75th Percentile £369 - £413
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £363 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -34.09% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
England median hourly rate £50.63 £16.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +216.41% -78.67% +294.74%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 315 210 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.30% 16.10% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 87 111
10th Percentile £303 £213 £200
25th Percentile £394 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £700 £588
England median daily rate £500 £488 £508
% change year-on-year +2.56% -3.94% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 62 62
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.37
25th Percentile £51.25 £30.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.00 £49.28
Median % change year-on-year +8.87% +25.81% -24.18%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.25 -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £41.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +4.82% -27.64% +1.52%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Unified Communications job vacancy trend in the East of England

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unified Communications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unified Communications

Unified Communications
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unified Communications.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unified Communications

Unified Communications
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 Unified Communications within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Hertfordshire - 2 - - 6
Suffolk - 1 £363 - 2
Unified Communications
England

Unified Communications
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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) HSRP
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) IP Telephony
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VRRP
1 2 (66.67%) WLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (66.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Document Management
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Conversational AI
3 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle