Unified Communications Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Unified Communications
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	72	-	45
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications	7	0	2
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire	0.75%	-	0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	6.09%	-	1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	2
10^th Percentile	£740	-	-
25^th Percentile	£744	-	£338
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£775	-	£375
75^th Percentile	£806	-	£413
90^th Percentile	£810	-	-
East of England median daily rate	£775	-	£375
% change year-on-year	-	-	-11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	0	0
Median hourly rate	£68.75	-	-
East of England median hourly rate	£68.75	-	-

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 citing communications or computer networking skills in Hertfordshire.

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	115	94	102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire	12.25%	17.64%	21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted	54	46	51
10^th Percentile	£392	£185	£290
25^th Percentile	£450	£381	£406
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£513
Median % change year-on-year	-	+7.32%	+16.48%
75^th Percentile	£600	£575	£575
90^th Percentile	£805	£690	£600
East of England median daily rate	£495	£491	£469
% change year-on-year	+0.76%	+4.80%	+4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted	31	33	19
10^th Percentile	-	£41.25	£35.00
25^th Percentile	£65.00	£45.00	£62.50
Median hourly rate	£68.75	£65.00	£65.00
Median % change year-on-year	+5.77%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£85.00	-	£67.50
90^th Percentile	£92.11	£73.60	£70.75
East of England median hourly rate	£65.00	£49.75	£52.50
% change year-on-year	+30.65%	-5.24%	-19.23%

Unified Communications Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Unified Communications Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Unified Communications.

Unified Communications Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Stevenage	-	7	£775	-	3
Unified Communications East of England

Unified Communications Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 6 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Unified Communications also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region citing Unified Communications.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cisco	100.0%	7
1	Security Cleared	100.0%	7
1	VMware	100.0%	7
1	VMware Infrastructure	100.0%	7
5	CCNP	85.7%	6
5	Cisco Certification	85.7%	6
5	LAN	85.7%	6
5	Network Security	85.7%	6
9	Active Directory	71.4%	5
9	BGP	71.4%	5
9	CCNA	71.4%	5
9	DevOps	71.4%	5
9	Document Management	71.4%	5
9	DV Cleared	71.4%	5
9	Firewall	71.4%	5
9	HSRP	71.4%	5
9	HTTP	71.4%	5
9	IP Telephony	71.4%	5
9	Linux	71.4%	5
9	Load Balancing	71.4%	5
9	Nagios	71.4%	5
9	OSPF	71.4%	5
9	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	71.4%	5
9	Risk Analysis	71.4%	5
9	SolarWinds	71.4%	5
9	SSL	71.4%	5
9	TCP/IP	71.4%	5
9	VRRP	71.4%	5
9	vSphere	71.4%	5
9	Windows	71.4%	5

Unified Communications Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	LAN	85.7%	6
1	Network Security	85.7%	6
3	BGP	71.4%	5
3	Firewall	71.4%	5
3	HSRP	71.4%	5
3	HTTP	71.4%	5
3	IP Telephony	71.4%	5
3	OSPF	71.4%	5
3	SSL	71.4%	5
3	TCP/IP	71.4%	5
3	VRRP	71.4%	5
3	WLAN	71.4%	5
13	H.323	28.6%	2
14	Telepresence	14.3%	1
14	WAN	14.3%	1
14	WebEx	14.3%	1