VoIP Contracts in England

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VoIP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VoIP 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 392 362 506
Rank change year-on-year -30 +144 -25
Contract jobs citing VoIP 93 182 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.49% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.93% 3.63% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 107 94
10th Percentile £223 £189 £185
25th Percentile £243 £350 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £525 £616 £542
90th Percentile £570 £672 £638
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £443
% change year-on-year -15.00% +12.97% +10.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 8
10th Percentile £35.45 £19.45 £14.75
25th Percentile £60.88 £24.18 £17.94
Median hourly rate £75.00 £25.00 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% +20.11% +22.44%
75th Percentile - £26.15 £27.91
90th Percentile - £77.23 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +200.00% +31.58% +11.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

VoIP 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%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VoIP in England

VoIP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VoIP in England

VoIP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for VoIP in England

VoIP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VoIP in England

VoIP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VoIP in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VoIP in England

VoIP
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 VoIP 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
London +15 36 £438 -12.50% 62
South West +34 24 £545 -9.25% 51
North of England +7 14 £240 -43.53% 115
South East +23 11 £496 +23.88% 114
Yorkshire +14 8 £236 -55.41% 37
East of England +28 5 £245 -49.74% 69
North West +3 5 £245 -53.33% 66
Midlands +1 3 £438 +16.67% 65
West Midlands 0 3 £438 +9.38% 33
North East -4 1 - - 15
VoIP
UK

VoIP
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 15 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (16.13%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.23%) Skype for Business
3 2 (2.15%) CMS
3 2 (2.15%) Confluence
3 2 (2.15%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (16.13%) OneDrive
3 12 (12.90%) SaaS
4 11 (11.83%) PaaS
5 8 (8.60%) Azure
6 5 (5.38%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.23%) AWS
7 3 (3.23%) GCP
8 2 (2.15%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.08%) IaaS
9 1 (1.08%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 28 (30.11%) WAN
2 24 (25.81%) LAN
2 24 (25.81%) Wi-Fi
3 23 (24.73%) VPN
4 21 (22.58%) DHCP
5 20 (21.51%) PBX
5 20 (21.51%) VLAN
6 19 (20.43%) DNS
6 19 (20.43%) Firewall
7 17 (18.28%) Unified Communications
8 11 (11.83%) Wireless
9 10 (10.75%) Network Security
10 9 (9.68%) BGP
11 8 (8.60%) MPLS
11 8 (8.60%) OSPF
11 8 (8.60%) TCP/IP
12 7 (7.53%) PSTN
12 7 (7.53%) SD-WAN
13 6 (6.45%) Internet
14 5 (5.38%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) MySQL
2 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.15%) JIRA
2 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.08%) Gerrit
2 1 (1.08%) Git
General
1 27 (29.03%) Telecoms
2 15 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.90%) Finance
4 8 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.38%) Military
6 4 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Billing
7 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Electronics
7 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.15%) Marketing
7 2 (2.15%) Retail
8 1 (1.08%) Aviation
8 1 (1.08%) Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (20.43%) Support Engineer
2 11 (11.83%) Desktop Support
3 10 (10.75%) Desktop Engineer
3 10 (10.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 10 (10.75%) Network Engineer
4 9 (9.68%) Architect
4 9 (9.68%) Senior
4 9 (9.68%) Voice Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Consultant
5 5 (5.38%) IT Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) IT Support
5 5 (5.38%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Senior Desktop Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Senior Desktop Support
5 5 (5.38%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Senior Support Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Analyst
6 4 (4.30%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 4 (4.30%) Telecoms Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.30%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.23%) Yocto
3 1 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.08%) POSIX
3 1 (1.08%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (10.75%) Blackberry
3 4 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.23%) Clustering
4 3 (3.23%) Digital TV
4 3 (3.23%) IoT
4 3 (3.23%) IVR
4 3 (3.23%) STB
5 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.15%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) NHS
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.15%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.08%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (30.11%) Windows
2 17 (18.28%) Windows 10
3 7 (7.53%) Linux
4 4 (4.30%) VMS
5 3 (3.23%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (3.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.15%) Android
6 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.15%) OpenWrt
6 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (21.51%) Customer Service
3 18 (19.35%) Migration
4 15 (16.13%) Root Cause Analysis
5 13 (13.98%) Customer Requirements
6 12 (12.90%) Commercial Awareness
7 11 (11.83%) ITIL
7 11 (11.83%) Roadmaps
8 10 (10.75%) Agile
8 10 (10.75%) Impact Assessments
8 10 (10.75%) Network Design
9 9 (9.68%) Service Design
9 9 (9.68%) Thought Leadership
9 9 (9.68%) Validation
10 8 (8.60%) Cost Reduction
10 8 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (8.60%) Product Roadmap
11 7 (7.53%) Service Delivery
12 5 (5.38%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (5.38%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.23%) C
1 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
1 3 (3.23%) SQL
2 2 (2.15%) Perl
3 1 (1.08%) C++
3 1 (1.08%) Go
3 1 (1.08%) Java
3 1 (1.08%) Python
3 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 28 (30.11%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (27.96%) SC Cleared
4 22 (23.66%) CCNP
5 16 (17.20%) DV Cleared
6 11 (11.83%) CCNA
7 10 (10.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (6.45%) Degree
9 4 (4.30%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.15%) CCIE
10 2 (2.15%) DBS Check
10 2 (2.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.08%) Avaya Certification
11 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.08%) CCIE Collaboration
11 1 (1.08%) CCNA CyberOps
11 1 (1.08%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) SLA
2 2 (2.15%) DICOM
2 2 (2.15%) HL7
2 2 (2.15%) QA
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (30.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (21.51%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.23%) KVM
3 3 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.08%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (13.98%) AppManager
1 13 (13.98%) SCCM
2 6 (6.45%) Cisco CUCM
2 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.30%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.23%) Cisco UCCX
5 2 (2.15%) CASB
6 1 (1.08%) Ansible
6 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.08%) OfficeScan
6 1 (1.08%) PaperCut
6 1 (1.08%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 1 (1.08%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 46 (49.46%) Cisco
2 29 (31.18%) VMware
3 24 (25.81%) Microsoft
4 17 (18.28%) Juniper
5 16 (17.20%) Palo Alto
6 15 (16.13%) F5
7 13 (13.98%) Ericsson
7 13 (13.98%) Ivanti
8 12 (12.90%) Nokia
9 11 (11.83%) Avaya
10 10 (10.75%) Ribbon
11 7 (7.53%) Aruba
11 7 (7.53%) Mitel
12 4 (4.30%) EMC
12 4 (4.30%) Google
13 3 (3.23%) Oracle
13 3 (3.23%) Splunk
14 2 (2.15%) Fortinet
14 2 (2.15%) SAP
14 2 (2.15%) SolarWinds