Skype Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Skype
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Skype skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Skype over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 361 301
Rank change year-on-year +66 -60 +79
Contract jobs citing Skype 50 30 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.14% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.36% 0.91% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 92
10th Percentile £383 £290 £305
25th Percentile £450 £469 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +22.41% +10.53%
75th Percentile £609 £677 £566
90th Percentile £679 £695 £636
UK median daily rate £450 £390 £479
% change year-on-year +15.38% -18.58% +12.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.98 £28.25 -
Median hourly rate £24.59 £28.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.74% - -
75th Percentile £26.19 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +89.47% +26.67% -13.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Skype 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 2,116 3,286 3,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.12% 15.55% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,848 2,206
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £325 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% +3.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.38% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 370 287
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £47.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.57% +115.91% -3.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £75.27
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +114.29% -27.88%

Skype
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Skype in the UK excluding London

Skype
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Skype in the UK excluding London

Skype
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Skype in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Skype in the UK excluding London

Skype
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Skype in the UK excluding London

Skype
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 Skype within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +23 24 £465 -19.13% 13
North West +24 23 £465 -22.50% 7
South West +46 17 £575 -4.17% 4
East of England - 4 £450 - 1
South East +50 3 £300 -36.84% 6
Wales - 2 - -
Yorkshire -2 1 - - 3
Skype
UK

Skype
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 33 (66.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (50.00%) Skype for Business
3 13 (26.00%) SharePoint
4 8 (16.00%) Mattermost
5 5 (10.00%) Confluence
6 4 (8.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 16 (32.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (12.00%) OneDrive
3 4 (8.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) Cohesity
4 3 (6.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (32.00%) DNS
1 16 (32.00%) Unified Communications
2 13 (26.00%) DHCP
3 9 (18.00%) WebEx
4 8 (16.00%) LAN
4 8 (16.00%) Softphone
4 8 (16.00%) WAN
5 7 (14.00%) VPN
6 5 (10.00%) SMTP
6 5 (10.00%) VLAN
7 4 (8.00%) Firewall
7 4 (8.00%) PSTN
7 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (8.00%) VoIP
7 4 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (6.00%) Wireless
9 1 (2.00%) BGP
9 1 (2.00%) Internet
9 1 (2.00%) MPLS
9 1 (2.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) JIRA
2 4 (8.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.00%) GitLab
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.00%) Legal
5 2 (4.00%) Electronics
5 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Military
5 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Support Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Messaging Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Messaging Support
3 8 (16.00%) Messaging Support Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Operations Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Operations Support Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Support Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Messaging Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Operational Support Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Operations Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Operations Support Analyst
5 6 (12.00%) Wintel Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Senior
7 4 (8.00%) Collaboration Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Exchange Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) XMPP
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) PKI
2 10 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.00%) Blackberry
4 4 (8.00%) Handset
5 3 (6.00%) Smartcard
5 3 (6.00%) YubiKey
6 2 (4.00%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (2.00%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 27 (54.00%) Windows
2 17 (34.00%) Windows Server
3 15 (30.00%) Windows 10
4 11 (22.00%) Linux
5 6 (12.00%) Windows 7
5 6 (12.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (12.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (8.00%) Android
6 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) ITIL
2 13 (26.00%) Service Management
3 12 (24.00%) Problem Management
4 11 (22.00%) B2B
4 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.00%) Critical Thinking
5 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (16.00%) Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (16.00%) System Testing
7 7 (14.00%) Agile
8 6 (12.00%) ITSM
9 5 (10.00%) NsoIT
9 5 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
10 4 (8.00%) Application Security
10 4 (8.00%) Customer Service
10 4 (8.00%) Disk Encryption
10 4 (8.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 4 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (8.00%) Waterfall
11 3 (6.00%) E-Discovery
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.00%) PowerShell
2 21 (42.00%) SQL
3 4 (8.00%) VB
3 4 (8.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (48.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (36.00%) Degree
4 12 (24.00%) DV Cleared
5 8 (16.00%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (10.00%) MCSE
8 3 (6.00%) A+ Certification
9 1 (2.00%) CCNP
9 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (2.00%) MCP
9 1 (2.00%) MCSA
9 1 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (62.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 8 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (12.00%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (8.00%) BitLocker
6 2 (4.00%) vSphere
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (32.00%) SCCM
2 13 (26.00%) WSUS
3 10 (20.00%) SCOM
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.00%) Nessus
5 2 (4.00%) AirWatch
5 2 (4.00%) PingFederate
5 2 (4.00%) XenMobile
6 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.00%) Ansible
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 37 (74.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.00%) Cisco
3 9 (18.00%) Red Hat
3 9 (18.00%) VMware
4 8 (16.00%) Splunk
5 6 (12.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (10.00%) Veeam
7 4 (8.00%) Atlassian
7 4 (8.00%) Clearswift
7 4 (8.00%) Remedy
7 4 (8.00%) Ribbon
7 4 (8.00%) Wyse
8 3 (6.00%) Tenable
9 2 (4.00%) Adobe
9 2 (4.00%) Apple
9 2 (4.00%) Citrix
9 2 (4.00%) Ivanti
9 2 (4.00%) MobileIron
10 1 (2.00%) Fujitsu
10 1 (2.00%) HP