Unified Communications Contracts in the South West

Unified Communications
England > South West

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 143 152
Rank change year-on-year +45 +9 +17
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 13 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.77% 0.44% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.06% 2.65% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 15
10th Percentile £499 £556 £456
25th Percentile £538 £557 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £678 £575
90th Percentile £714 £744 £595
England median daily rate £500 £525 £481
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.25% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £41.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year +82.93% +56.19% -36.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 257 528 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.32% 16.51% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 343 416
10th Percentile £250 £276 £206
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £717
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 125
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.70
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in the South West

Unified Communications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unified Communications in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Unified Communications in the South West

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unified Communications in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unified Communications in the South West

Unified Communications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unified Communications in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Unified Communications in the South West

Unified Communications
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire +27 7 £588 -1.14% 2
Bristol +22 5 £545 -26.17%
Gloucestershire - 1 £500 - 1
Unified Communications
England

Unified Communications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (38.46%) SharePoint
1 5 (38.46%) Skype for Business
2 4 (30.77%) Confluence
3 1 (7.69%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) PaaS
1 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) VoIP
2 6 (46.15%) Skype
3 5 (38.46%) DHCP
3 5 (38.46%) DNS
3 5 (38.46%) PBX
4 3 (23.08%) ISDN
4 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
4 3 (23.08%) WAN
5 2 (15.38%) 4G
5 2 (15.38%) 5G
5 2 (15.38%) BGP
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (7.69%) Network Security
6 1 (7.69%) OSPF
6 1 (7.69%) VLAN
6 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
1 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Billing
3 3 (23.08%) Military
4 1 (7.69%) Electronics
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Telecoms Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) PKI
2 3 (23.08%) IVR
2 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (15.38%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (7.69%) Blackberry
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
1 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
1 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (38.46%) Service Management
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Critical Thinking
2 4 (30.77%) System Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
3 3 (23.08%) Information Security
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (23.08%) Two-Factor Authentication
4 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (15.38%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.69%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) DV Cleared
3 8 (61.54%) Degree
3 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
4 6 (46.15%) CCNP
4 6 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (30.77%) CCNA
6 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
1 5 (38.46%) Hyper-V
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 5 (38.46%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) WSUS
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 5 (38.46%) Veeam
4 4 (30.77%) Atlassian
5 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
6 2 (15.38%) Ericsson
6 2 (15.38%) F5
6 2 (15.38%) Juniper
6 2 (15.38%) Nokia
7 1 (7.69%) Avaya
7 1 (7.69%) Ribbon
7 1 (7.69%) SAP
7 1 (7.69%) VMware