IP Telephony Contracts

IP Telephony
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 562 651
Rank change year-on-year +51 +89 +140
Contract jobs citing IP Telephony 9 20 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 0.36% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 41
10th Percentile £291 £402 £195
25th Percentile £300 £469 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +103.88%
75th Percentile £538 £644 £600
90th Percentile £560 £678 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -15.82% -6.67% +110.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £16.17
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £22.45
90th Percentile - - £22.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £19.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,722 5,629 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.92% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 3,368 4,786
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

IP Telephony
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IP Telephony as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IP Telephony in the UK

IP Telephony
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IP Telephony.

Daily rate trend for IP Telephony in the UK

IP Telephony
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IP Telephony over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IP Telephony in the UK

IP Telephony
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IP Telephony.

Hourly rate trend for IP Telephony in the UK

IP Telephony
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +46 9 £525 +5.00% 22
UK excluding London +61 7 £413 -15.82% 22
South East +44 5 £413 -15.82% 5
Work from Home +38 3 £550 +12.24% 11
London +29 2 £550 +10.00% 9
East of England - 2 - - 2

IP Telephony
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
3 1 (11.11%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) VoIP
2 4 (44.44%) Wireless
3 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (22.22%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) DNS
4 2 (22.22%) PBX
4 2 (22.22%) Unified Communications
4 2 (22.22%) VLAN
4 2 (22.22%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (11.11%) LAN
5 1 (11.11%) MPLS
5 1 (11.11%) SAN
5 1 (11.11%) Softphone
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) IT Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Network Migration Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Voice Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Threat Management
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Content Management
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Inventory Management
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Ticket Management
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCNA
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) HP APS
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) MCP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) OfficeScan
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
3 2 (22.22%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Infoblox
3 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Altiris
4 1 (11.11%) Aruba
4 1 (11.11%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) F5
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 1 (11.11%) Mitel
4 1 (11.11%) NetApp
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Symantec