VoIP Contracts in the South West

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 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 87 121 146
Rank change year-on-year +34 +25 +9
Contract jobs citing VoIP 24 36 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.43% 1.13% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.34% 6.82% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 15
10th Percentile £223 £273 £272
25th Percentile £314 £285 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +2.13% +83.59%
75th Percentile £573 £625 £644
90th Percentile £605 £638 £665
England median daily rate £425 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £85.50 £16.70
25th Percentile - £86.25 £17.38
Median hourly rate £75.00 £90.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +373.68% -62.15%
75th Percentile - £93.75 £51.63
90th Percentile - £94.50 £70.90
England median hourly rate £75.00 £25.00 £20.82
% change year-on-year +200.00% +20.11% +22.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 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%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VoIP in the South West

VoIP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for VoIP in the South West

VoIP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for VoIP in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for VoIP in the South West

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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 VoIP 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
Bristol +16 11 £547 -8.79% 5
Wiltshire +32 5 £617 - 6
Dorset +4 4 £225 -62.50% 8
Gloucestershire +17 3 £563 - 13
Devon - 1 £413 - 13
VoIP
England

VoIP
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 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) PaaS
1 11 (45.83%) SaaS
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.50%) OneDrive
4 2 (8.33%) Azure
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (62.50%) PBX
2 7 (29.17%) Unified Communications
2 7 (29.17%) WAN
3 6 (25.00%) VLAN
4 5 (20.83%) VPN
5 4 (16.67%) DHCP
5 4 (16.67%) DNS
5 4 (16.67%) LAN
5 4 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (12.50%) 4G
6 3 (12.50%) 5G
6 3 (12.50%) BGP
6 3 (12.50%) ISDN
6 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
6 3 (12.50%) Wireless
7 2 (8.33%) Firewall
7 2 (8.33%) OSPF
7 2 (8.33%) WebEx
8 1 (4.17%) SAN
8 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 14 (58.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (12.50%) Billing
2 3 (12.50%) Military
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Unified Communications Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Telephony Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Unified Communications Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (41.67%) Blackberry
3 4 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (12.50%) IVR
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
1 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 11 (45.83%) Customer Requirements
2 11 (45.83%) Migration
3 10 (41.67%) Impact Assessments
4 9 (37.50%) Service Design
4 9 (37.50%) Thought Leadership
4 9 (37.50%) Validation
5 8 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
5 8 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
5 8 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.67%) Customer Service
7 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (8.33%) High Availability
7 2 (8.33%) Project Management
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (4.17%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (79.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 15 (62.50%) CCNP
3 15 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (41.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (16.67%) CCNA
6 3 (12.50%) Degree
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) AppManager
1 3 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) Cisco
2 14 (58.33%) Palo Alto
2 14 (58.33%) VMware
3 13 (54.17%) Juniper
4 12 (50.00%) Ericsson
4 12 (50.00%) F5
4 12 (50.00%) Nokia
5 10 (41.67%) Avaya
5 10 (41.67%) Ribbon
6 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
7 3 (12.50%) Ivanti
8 1 (4.17%) Aruba
8 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
8 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
8 1 (4.17%) Infoblox
8 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds