VoIP Contracts in the Midlands

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring VoIP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VoIP over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 118 137
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 +38
Contract jobs citing VoIP 6 22 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.27% 0.75% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.31% 4.70% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 7
10th Percentile £254 £169 £226
25th Percentile £369 £190 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £541 £775 £444
90th Percentile £550 - £503
England median daily rate £416 £479 £400
% change year-on-year -13.05% +19.69% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £25.77 -
England median hourly rate £63.50 £25.77 £32.50
% change year-on-year +146.46% -20.72% +91.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

VoIP 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 260 468 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.70% 15.85% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 284 331
10th Percentile £200 £200 £250
25th Percentile £300 £312 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +1.12% +7.88%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £700 £684 £706
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 33 16
10th Percentile - £12.28 £13.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £19.56
Median hourly rate £25.00 £14.27 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.19% -32.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £23.75 £27.81
90th Percentile £42.23 £28.23 £28.75
England median hourly rate £38.41 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -16.28% +121.59% -17.18%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VoIP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VoIP in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VoIP in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VoIP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VoIP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VoIP in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VoIP in the Midlands

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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 VoIP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 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 5 £510 +27.50% 31
East Midlands -1 1 £165 +3.13% 15
VoIP
England

VoIP
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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) LAN
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) Broadband
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (33.33%) MPLS
3 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (33.33%) Unified Communications
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Frame Relay
4 1 (16.67%) IP Telephony
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (16.67%) PSTN
4 1 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Field Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Openreach Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Educational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Stability
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (33.33%) Meraki
3 1 (16.67%) Openreach
3 1 (16.67%) VMware