VoIP Contract Job Trends in the South East

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VoIP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 143 168
Rank change year-on-year -56 +25 +16
Contract jobs citing VoIP 11 12 36
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.19% 0.40% 0.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.50% 2.35% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 10
10th Percentile £384 £313 £326
25th Percentile £414 £408 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £496 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +23.88% +1.27%
75th Percentile £529 £538 £419
90th Percentile £581 £544 £475
England median daily rate £368 £425 £488
% change year-on-year -13.53% -12.82% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.14
25th Percentile £44.86 £18.50 £16.53
Median hourly rate £48.72 £19.00 £17.88
Median % change year-on-year +156.42% +6.29% -43.03%
75th Percentile £52.58 £19.50 £19.03
90th Percentile - - £19.31
England median hourly rate £48.72 £75.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -35.04% +200.00% +10.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 733 510 1,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.76% 17.02% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 319 633
10th Percentile £291 £206 £205
25th Percentile £406 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £484
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -1.86% +0.33%
75th Percentile £598 £588 £584
90th Percentile £688 £630 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 28 131
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.30 £20.26 £27.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 £54.94 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% -4.21% +13.56%
75th Percentile £56.00 £62.50 £64.38
90th Percentile £64.23 £66.88 £85.65
England median hourly rate £42.60 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -8.39% +111.30%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

VoIP job vacancy trend in the South East

VoIP
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VoIP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VoIP

VoIP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VoIP in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VoIP in the South East

VoIP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VoIP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VoIP

VoIP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 April 2026. 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
Thames Valley -44 8 £425 -8.80% 1
Berkshire -33 7 £423 -9.33%
Surrey - 2 £485 - 5
Hampshire -25 1 - - 4
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 - 1
VoIP
England

VoIP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (18.18%) DHCP
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) MPLS
3 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
3 2 (18.18%) SNMP
3 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (9.09%) 5G
4 1 (9.09%) BGP
4 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (9.09%) IPsec
4 1 (9.09%) Mobile Backhaul
4 1 (9.09%) Multicast
4 1 (9.09%) OSPF
4 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
4 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Deployment Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Network Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Network Design Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Network Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Voice Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) IoT
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Smartphone
2 1 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Network Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
3 1 (9.09%) Culture Change
3 1 (9.09%) Data Collection
3 1 (9.09%) Data Interpretation
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
3 1 (9.09%) Line Management
3 1 (9.09%) Presales
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
3 1 (9.09%) Security Patching
3 1 (9.09%) Server Monitoring
3 1 (9.09%) SOAR
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Discovery
3 1 (9.09%) User Experience
3 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) CCNP
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) CCDA
3 1 (9.09%) CCDP
3 1 (9.09%) CCIE
3 1 (9.09%) CCIP
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) JSP 440
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Backup Exec
1 1 (9.09%) CASB
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
1 1 (9.09%) SCOM
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
1 1 (9.09%) WhatsUp Gold
1 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) F5
3 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
4 1 (9.09%) Acronis
4 1 (9.09%) Arista
4 1 (9.09%) Aruba
4 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) Huawei
4 1 (9.09%) Juniper
4 1 (9.09%) McAfee
4 1 (9.09%) Meraki
4 1 (9.09%) NetApp
4 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
4 1 (9.09%) Symantec
4 1 (9.09%) Zscaler