Unified Communications Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Unified Communications
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Unified Communications skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 112 136
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 +33
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 6 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.38% 0.16% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.92% 1.47% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile - £401 £535
25th Percentile £413 £403 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -25.00% +15.79%
75th Percentile £475 £428 £573
90th Percentile - £434 £624
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.02% +15.28%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 153 204 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 9.59% 10.89% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 130 184
10th Percentile £184 £172 £159
25th Percentile £362 £240 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -10.53% +8.76%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £575
90th Percentile £580 £619 £684
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 21
10th Percentile - £12.00 £17.72
25th Percentile - £14.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.27 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% -66.78% +50.44%
75th Percentile £27.35 £18.89 £73.75
90th Percentile £62.75 £30.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £51.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -16.67% -9.72% +36.12%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in Scotland

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Unified Communications
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Unified Communications

Unified Communications
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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
Edinburgh +12 6 £450 +9.09% 2
Unified Communications
UK

Unified Communications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) Network Security
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (50.00%) IPsec
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (50.00%) VoIP
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Field Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Network Field Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) High Availability
1 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CCNA
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CCIE
2 3 (50.00%) CCIE Collaboration
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) F5
2 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto