IP Telephony Contracts in England

IP Telephony
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring IP Telephony skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IP Telephony 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 476 522 599
Rank change year-on-year +46 +77 +123
Contract jobs citing IP Telephony 9 20 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.054% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.28% 0.40% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 32
10th Percentile £291 £402 £221
25th Percentile £300 £469 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +3.36% +82.55%
75th Percentile £538 £644 £642
90th Percentile £560 £678 £862
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +103.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £15.58
25th Percentile - - £18.88
Median hourly rate - - £21.13
75th Percentile - - £22.54
90th Percentile - - £22.63
UK median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

IP Telephony 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

IP Telephony
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing IP Telephony as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for IP Telephony in England

IP Telephony
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IP Telephony in England.

Daily rate trend for IP Telephony in England

IP Telephony
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IP Telephony in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IP Telephony in England

IP Telephony
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IP Telephony in England.

Hourly rate trend for IP Telephony in England

IP Telephony
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IP Telephony within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +44 5 £413 -15.82% 24
London +29 2 £550 +10.00% 13
East of England - 2 - - 14
IP Telephony
UK

IP Telephony
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
3 1 (11.11%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) VoIP
2 4 (44.44%) Wireless
3 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (22.22%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) DNS
4 2 (22.22%) PBX
4 2 (22.22%) Unified Communications
4 2 (22.22%) VLAN
4 2 (22.22%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (11.11%) LAN
5 1 (11.11%) MPLS
5 1 (11.11%) SAN
5 1 (11.11%) Softphone
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) IT Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Network Migration Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Voice Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Threat Management
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Content Management
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Inventory Management
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Ticket Management
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCNA
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) HP APS
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) MCP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) OfficeScan
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
3 2 (22.22%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Infoblox
3 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Altiris
4 1 (11.11%) Aruba
4 1 (11.11%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) F5
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 1 (11.11%) Mitel
4 1 (11.11%) NetApp
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Symantec