VoIP Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring VoIP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VoIP 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 4.83% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.99% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £317 - -
25th Percentile £347 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
75th Percentile £367 - -
90th Percentile £368 - -
East of England median daily rate £367 - £725
% change year-on-year - - +74.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 77 7 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 37.20% 14.00% 25.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 4 15
10th Percentile - - £182
25th Percentile £313 £213 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £263 £220
Median % change year-on-year +40.19% +19.32% -43.23%
75th Percentile £498 £358 £309
90th Percentile £503 £461 £440
East of England median daily rate £495 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +22.22% -
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 £66.25 £45.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +47.22% -14.29% -19.23%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

VoIP job vacancy trend in Suffolk

VoIP
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing VoIP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing VoIP

VoIP
Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing VoIP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing VoIP

VoIP
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 VoIP within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 12 October 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 - 10 £367 - 4
VoIP
East of England

VoIP
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 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) RTP
2 6 (60.00%) Wireshark
3 4 (40.00%) Asterisk PBX
3 4 (40.00%) RTCP
4 3 (30.00%) tcpdump
5 2 (20.00%) INAP
6 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) Locust
2 2 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 2 (20.00%) TestCafe
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Voice Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) VoIP Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) VoIP Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) QA Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Servlets
2 4 (40.00%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (30.00%) WebRTC
4 2 (20.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Media Streaming
1 1 (10.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) CentOS
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) AI
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Conversational AI
3 3 (30.00%) Conversational UI
3 3 (30.00%) Validation
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
5 1 (10.00%) Open Source
5 1 (10.00%) Test Management
5 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) MOS
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Metaswitch
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Dialogic
3 2 (20.00%) Google