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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 575 628
Rank change year-on-year +45 +53 +167
Contract jobs citing IP Telephony 14 18 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.042% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% 0.33% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 36
10th Percentile £243 £314 £223
25th Percentile £270 £315 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +120.00%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £733
90th Percentile - £650 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £325 £550
% change year-on-year +61.54% -40.91% +120.00%
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 - - £23.98
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 4,035 5,374 7,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.33% 12.53% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,438 3,170 4,664
10th Percentile £233 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £488 £465
% change year-on-year -3.18% +4.84% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 424 371
10th Percentile £14.69 £13.61 £10.63
25th Percentile £20.85 £17.69 £11.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +45.45% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.15 £73.60 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.32 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.22% +5.56% +95.65%

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 12 July 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 8 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 12 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
England +39 14 £450 -10.00% 20
London +22 8 £260 -48.00% 6
UK excluding London +24 6 £525 +61.54% 16
Work from Home +30 3 £250 -60.00% 9
South East - 3 £525 - 3
East of England - 2 - - 4
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
Midlands - 1 £450 - 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) TCP/IP
2 5 (35.71%) DHCP
2 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) VLAN
2 5 (35.71%) WAN
3 4 (28.57%) VoIP
4 3 (21.43%) Firewall
4 3 (21.43%) LAN
4 3 (21.43%) SD-WAN
5 2 (14.29%) Internet
5 2 (14.29%) PBX
6 1 (7.14%) BGP
6 1 (7.14%) Broadband
6 1 (7.14%) Intranet
6 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (7.14%) MPLS
6 1 (7.14%) OSPF
6 1 (7.14%) SAN
6 1 (7.14%) VPN
6 1 (7.14%) Wireless
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
1 6 (42.86%) Support Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Voice Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (35.71%) iPad
2 5 (35.71%) iPhone
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.14%) Educational Technology
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 7 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 6 (42.86%) Windows 7
4 5 (35.71%) Android
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (7.14%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (21.43%) Change Management
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.14%) CRM
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Inventory Management
4 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (7.14%) Threat Management
4 1 (7.14%) Ticket Management
4 1 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (14.29%) MCSA
2 2 (14.29%) MCSE
2 2 (14.29%) MOS
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) A+ Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (7.14%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) vSphere
3 1 (7.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Citrix
3 2 (14.29%) Apple
3 2 (14.29%) Avaya
3 2 (14.29%) Polycom
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Wyse
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) F5