Unified Communications Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Unified Communications
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Unified Communications skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 83 101
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +46
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 1 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.099% 0.085% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.23% 0.70% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile £325 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £330 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -26.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £375 - £494
90th Percentile - - £543
North West median daily rate £263 £330 £450
% change year-on-year -20.45% -26.67% -1.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 81 143 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.00% 12.17% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 103 140
10th Percentile £258 £332 £311
25th Percentile £388 £445 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £750 £550
90th Percentile £662 £850 £663
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £486
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.02% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile - £37.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £40.63 £15.74
Median hourly rate £19.50 £47.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.95% +187.88% -61.88%
75th Percentile £20.00 £76.38 £24.79
90th Percentile - £92.95 £46.88
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -58.81% +191.13% -44.93%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Unified Communications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in Manchester

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Unified Communications

Unified Communications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco