VoIP Contract Job Trends in the North West

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring VoIP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 115 106
Rank change year-on-year -22 -9 +50
Contract jobs citing VoIP 9 5 31
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.36% 0.23% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.51% 1.54% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 27
10th Percentile £311 £218 £563
25th Percentile £347 £226 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £245 £648
Median % change year-on-year +73.47% -62.16% +50.14%
75th Percentile £509 £372 £662
90th Percentile £549 £591 £672
England median daily rate £485 £370 £440
% change year-on-year +31.08% -15.91% +3.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 358 325 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.20% 15.22% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 168 316
10th Percentile £170 £180 £302
25th Percentile £330 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -7.85% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £627
90th Percentile £678 £620 £672
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 13
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.76 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £22.01 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +174.04% -10.87%
75th Percentile £69.00 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £52.14 £49.38
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +25.53%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VoIP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

VoIP job vacancy trend in the North West

VoIP
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing VoIP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing VoIP

VoIP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VoIP in the North West over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VoIP in the North West

VoIP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing VoIP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing VoIP

VoIP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Manchester -12 7 £550 +120.00% 8
Merseyside -8 1 - - 5
Cheshire - 1 £300 - 2
VoIP
England

VoIP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
1 1 (11.11%) IP Telephony
1 1 (11.11%) MPLS
1 1 (11.11%) NGN
1 1 (11.11%) PABX
1 1 (11.11%) SDH
1 1 (11.11%) SNMP
1 1 (11.11%) TACACS
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Local Government
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Consultant
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Telephony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (11.11%) Housing Association
2 1 (11.11%) IBM XIV
2 1 (11.11%) IVR
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 1 (11.11%) Network Management
3 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Apple
2 1 (11.11%) Avaya
2 1 (11.11%) BT
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Nokia
2 1 (11.11%) Nortel
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) VMware