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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 83 85
Rank change year-on-year -37 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.10% 0.20% 0.084%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.27% 2.44% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £235 £333 -
25th Percentile £288 £344 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £330
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +13.64% -26.67%
75th Percentile £538 £394 -
90th Percentile £605 £398 -
North West median daily rate £200 £350 £330
% change year-on-year -42.86% +6.06% -26.67%

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 158 82 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 7.94% 8.07% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 47 113
10th Percentile £188 £265 £326
25th Percentile £316 £375 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -12.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £556 £543 £825
90th Percentile £613 £654 £850
North West median daily rate £474 £449 £525
% change year-on-year +5.69% -14.57% +8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £12.98 - £37.25
25th Percentile £13.74 £18.50 £40.63
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -60.00% +187.88%
75th Percentile £18.05 £19.75 £76.38
90th Percentile £24.62 £19.90 £92.95
North West median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -12.50% -58.81% +191.13%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Unified Communications job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unified Communications in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unified Communications in Manchester

Unified Communications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Revenue Recognition
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet