FreeSWITCH Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

FreeSWITCH
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring FreeSWITCH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FreeSWITCH 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.063% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £367 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 - -
75th Percentile £368 - -
90th Percentile £368 - -
UK median daily rate £367 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

FreeSWITCH falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,780 3,183 3,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.31% 20.87% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,107 2,131 2,188
10th Percentile £356 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £608
90th Percentile £679 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 133 165
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £30.65
25th Percentile £56.06 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £74.26
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £53.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.07% -13.56% -1.44%

FreeSWITCH
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FreeSWITCH relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

FreeSWITCH job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

FreeSWITCH
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FreeSWITCH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FreeSWITCH

FreeSWITCH
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FreeSWITCH within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
East of England - 3 £368 - 5
FreeSWITCH
UK

FreeSWITCH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 3 (100.00%) RTCP
1 3 (100.00%) RTP
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Voice Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Servlets
2 2 (66.67%) WebRTC
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational AI
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Metaswitch
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Google