Metaswitch Contract Job Trends in England

Metaswitch
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 18 October 2025, 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
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 520 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Metaswitch 1 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.004% 0.028% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.007% 0.063% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £329 -
UK median daily rate - £329 -

All Vendors
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,499 14,317 18,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.78% 44.85% 44.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,584 8,573 12,113
10th Percentile £278 £300 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £626 £644
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 666 488 628
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.00 £20.19
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.18 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.94% -20.94% +81.04%
75th Percentile £42.24 £65.00 £63.41
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.85 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £33.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -27.27% -24.79% +82.83%

Metaswitch
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Metaswitch job vacancy trend in England

Metaswitch
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metaswitch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metaswitch

Metaswitch
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 Metaswitch within the England region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
East of England - 1 - -
Metaswitch
UK

Metaswitch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle