Metaswitch Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Metaswitch
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 3 September 2026, 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
3 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metaswitch 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 2.38% - -
As % of the Vendors category 13.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £367 - -

All Vendors
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 23 18 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 18.25% 51.43% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 9
10th Percentile £367 £213 £325
25th Percentile £392 £256 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £696 £540 £525
90th Percentile £734 £575 £538
Suffolk median daily rate £450 £400 £301
% change year-on-year +12.50% +32.78% -33.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £15.96 -
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.65 £11.25
Median hourly rate £17.12 £17.79 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +54.70% -
75th Percentile £18.22 - £11.75
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £15.95 £17.79 £11.50
% change year-on-year -10.34% +54.70% -

Metaswitch
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Metaswitch job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Metaswitch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) RTP
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) Asterisk PBX
2 2 (66.67%) RTCP
2 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) INAP
3 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Locust
1 1 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (33.33%) TestCafe
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) FreeSWITCH
1 2 (66.67%) Servlets
1 2 (66.67%) WebRTC
2 1 (33.33%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational AI
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MOS
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Dialogic
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