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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 383 397
Rank change year-on-year +27 +14 +80
Contract jobs citing IP Telephony 8 4 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.020% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 0.13% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 20
10th Percentile £443 £233 £224
25th Percentile £469 £263 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £325 £550
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% -40.91% +120.00%
75th Percentile £538 £419 £616
90th Percentile - £468 £963
UK median daily rate £450 £458 £550
% change year-on-year -1.64% -16.82% +120.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £13.83
25th Percentile - - £15.58
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - £19.90
UK median hourly rate £20.00 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +28.08%

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 2,197 3,179 3,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.79% 15.58% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,291 1,800 2,215
10th Percentile £200 £202 £205
25th Percentile £325 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +7.03% +2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 348 213
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.43 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.30 £16.77
Median hourly rate £41.48 £47.50 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% -0.48% +107.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +15.63% +23.08% +13.04%

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
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 17 July 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 - 3 £525 - 2
East of England - 2 - - 4
North of England +4 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
North West - 1 - -
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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) SD-WAN
2 3 (37.50%) VoIP
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) LAN
3 2 (25.00%) PBX
3 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) BGP
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) Internet
4 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (12.50%) MPLS
4 1 (12.50%) NAS
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) OSPF
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) IT Support
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Voice Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Support Executive
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Educational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Change Management
1 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
1 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security Management
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
2 1 (12.50%) Security Management
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Service Management
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Threat Management
2 1 (12.50%) Ticket Management
2 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) A+ Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) MCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) COBIT
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Sun