Skype for Business Contracts in London

Microsoft Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Lync)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Skype for Business skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Skype for Business 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 346 359 461
Rank change year-on-year +13 +102 +90
Contract jobs citing Skype for Business 7 32 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.48% 1.63% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 18
10th Percentile £313 £190 £223
25th Percentile £363 £208 £242
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £370 £445
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -16.81% +4.65%
75th Percentile £450 £410 £556
90th Percentile £473 £480 £629
England median daily rate £550 £300 £425
% change year-on-year +83.33% -29.41% -

All Application Platform Skills
London

Skype for Business falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,460 1,967 2,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.64% 11.03% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 1,456 2,104
10th Percentile £333 £263 £310
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 29
10th Percentile £25.34 £15.50 £17.75
25th Percentile £26.03 £22.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.73 £29.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% -17.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £50.94 £33.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £82.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Skype for Business
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Skype for Business as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Skype for Business in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Skype for Business in London.

Daily rate trend for Skype for Business in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Skype for Business in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Skype for Business in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Skype for Business in London.

Hourly rate trend for Skype for Business in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Skype for Business within the London 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
Central London +6 3 £475 +18.75% 1
Skype for Business
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (57.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Skype
2 3 (42.86%) VoIP
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Voice Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Messaging Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Voice Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) BYOD
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Blackberry
3 1 (14.29%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) VMS
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS X
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Change Management
1 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) ITSM
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (42.86%) KVM
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (28.57%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (42.86%) Forefront Identity Manager
2 3 (42.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Citrix
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Apple
3 1 (14.29%) Mitel
3 1 (14.29%) Progress