Unified Communications Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Unified Communications
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Unified Communications skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 0.47% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £363 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -36.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 68 7 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 31.63% 12.96% 24.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 3 13
10th Percentile £303 £230 £181
25th Percentile £350 £256 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £300 £220
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% +36.36% -51.11%
75th Percentile £498 £415 -
90th Percentile £538 £484 £232
East of England median daily rate £495 £525 £413
% change year-on-year -5.71% +27.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - £45.22
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £48.56
75th Percentile £18.22 - £52.83
90th Percentile - - £53.38
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.00 £49.28
% change year-on-year +8.87% +25.81% -24.18%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unified Communications relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Unified Communications job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

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

Unified Communications
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Ipswich - 1 £363 - 2
Unified Communications
East of England

Unified Communications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle