Skype Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Skype
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Skype skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Skype over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 121 139
Rank change year-on-year -16 +18 -10
Contract jobs citing Skype 13 47 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% 1.28% 0.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.43% 7.18% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 32 16
10th Percentile £300 £400 £290
25th Percentile £460 £456 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +23.53% -8.11%
75th Percentile £713 £638 £528
90th Percentile £740 £865 £556
England median daily rate £470 £459 £425
% change year-on-year +2.40% +8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £95.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year - +37.58% -
England median hourly rate £28.50 £21.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +35.71% -8.70% -45.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

Skype is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 535 655 497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.75% 17.78% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 425 300
10th Percentile £275 £208 £224
25th Percentile £460 £400 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £541
90th Percentile £713 £717 £621
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 128 34
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.13
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +9.91%
75th Percentile £70.66 £62.51 £66.46
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.58 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

Skype
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Skype in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Skype in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Skype in the South West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Skype 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 Skype in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Skype 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 Skype within the South West region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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 +21 6 £300 -60.00% 2
Wiltshire -20 6 £638 +15.91% 4
Gloucestershire -9 1 - -
Skype
England

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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 9 (69.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (69.23%) SharePoint
2 7 (53.85%) Skype for Business
3 2 (15.38%) Confluence
4 1 (7.69%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
2 3 (23.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
1 5 (38.46%) LAN
1 5 (38.46%) WAN
2 4 (30.77%) DHCP
2 4 (30.77%) DNS
3 3 (23.08%) Unified Communications
4 2 (15.38%) NAS
4 2 (15.38%) SAN
4 2 (15.38%) SMTP
4 2 (15.38%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (15.38%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Wintel Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IT Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IT Support
2 3 (23.08%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Support
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) PKI
2 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (15.38%) Clustering
3 2 (15.38%) CMDB
3 2 (15.38%) Fat Client
3 2 (15.38%) iPhone
3 2 (15.38%) Thin Client
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows 10
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (23.08%) Linux
5 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) ITIL
2 7 (53.85%) ITSM
2 7 (53.85%) Service Management
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Customer Service
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 3 (23.08%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (23.08%) Time Management
5 3 (23.08%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (15.38%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Key Management
6 2 (15.38%) Matrix Management
6 2 (15.38%) NsoIT
6 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Statistical Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) System Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 4 (30.77%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 3 (23.08%) MCP
5 1 (7.69%) CCNA
5 1 (7.69%) CCNP
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (7.69%) MCSE
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
2 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 4 (30.77%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (23.08%) VMware NSX
5 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (15.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) SCCM
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (23.08%) SCOM
3 2 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (15.38%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (15.38%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (15.38%) OPNET
3 2 (15.38%) vCenter Server
3 2 (15.38%) WSUS
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (76.92%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Citrix
4 4 (30.77%) Cisco
4 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
5 2 (15.38%) Apple
5 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
5 2 (15.38%) Remedy
5 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 2 (15.38%) Splunk
5 2 (15.38%) Veeam