Unified Communications Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Unified Communications
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Unified Communications skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 128 121
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +84
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 9 4 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 0.15% 0.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.70% 1.15% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 15
10th Percentile £420 £376 £350
25th Percentile £506 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £438
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +11.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £566 £478
90th Percentile - £609 £680
England median daily rate £550 £550 £495
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £17.10 - -
25th Percentile £20.06 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £30.00 - -
90th Percentile £33.00 - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £75.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -78.67% +294.74% -55.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 333 347 538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.70% 12.82% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 204 306
10th Percentile £237 £200 £200
25th Percentile £325 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £552 £628 £575
90th Percentile £638 £743 £714
England median daily rate £491 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.77% +1.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 25
10th Percentile £13.81 - £14.60
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £13.89 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% -49.51% +54.67%
75th Percentile £31.00 £24.14 £54.00
90th Percentile £41.53 £33.28 £67.50
England median hourly rate £41.23 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -28.12% +1.52% +34.50%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in the Midlands

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Unified Communications

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unified Communications in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unified Communications in the Midlands

Unified Communications
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Unified Communications.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Unified Communications

Unified Communications
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unified Communications in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Unified Communications in the Midlands

Unified Communications
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
West Midlands -4 9 £525 +50.00% 7
Unified Communications
England

Unified Communications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) Wireless
3 4 (44.44%) WAN
4 3 (33.33%) BGP
4 3 (33.33%) DMVPN
4 3 (33.33%) EIGRP
4 3 (33.33%) IPsec
4 3 (33.33%) OSPF
4 3 (33.33%) Telepresence
4 3 (33.33%) Wireshark
5 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (22.22%) LAN
5 2 (22.22%) MPLS
5 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
5 2 (22.22%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (22.22%) VLAN
5 2 (22.22%) VoIP
6 1 (11.11%) DKIM
6 1 (11.11%) DMARC
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 3 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 3 (33.33%) Information Management
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Network Design
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Cryptography
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (44.44%) Degree
3 3 (33.33%) CCNP
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) CCIE
5 1 (11.11%) CCNA
5 1 (11.11%) JNCIA
5 1 (11.11%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Def Stans
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Juniper
3 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
4 2 (22.22%) Meraki
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle