IP Telephony Contracts in the UK excluding London

IP Telephony
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IP Telephony skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IP Telephony over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 385 410
Rank change year-on-year +58 +25 +66
Contract jobs citing IP Telephony 7 9 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.043% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% 0.26% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 28
10th Percentile £290 £388 £218
25th Percentile £296 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £490 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% -8.84% +115.00%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £588
90th Percentile - £553 £901
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +103.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £14.42
25th Percentile - - £17.04
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £20.57
90th Percentile - - £21.58
UK median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

IP Telephony 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,977 3,409 3,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.48% 16.47% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,953 2,274
10th Percentile £194 £203 £210
25th Percentile £303 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 359 327
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.45 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.40 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% +110.53% -30.91%

IP Telephony
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IP Telephony as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IP Telephony in the UK excluding London

IP Telephony
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IP Telephony in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IP Telephony in the UK excluding London

IP Telephony
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IP Telephony in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IP Telephony in the UK excluding London

IP Telephony
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IP Telephony in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IP Telephony in the UK excluding London

IP Telephony
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 IP Telephony within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +34 5 £413 -15.82% 7
East of England - 2 - - 2
IP Telephony
UK

IP Telephony
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) Wireless
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (28.57%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) PBX
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) VoIP
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
4 1 (14.29%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
4 1 (14.29%) SAN
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) IT Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Network Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Network Migration Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Voice Architect
4 1 (14.29%) IT Support
4 1 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Change Management
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Inventory Management
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Threat Management
2 1 (14.29%) Ticket Management
2 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) HP APS
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) MCP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
1 1 (14.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 2 (28.57%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) Infoblox
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) VMware