Metaswitch Contract Job Trends

Metaswitch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Metaswitch products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metaswitch over the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Metaswitch Networks.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 674 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metaswitch 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.022% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £323 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile £373 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £367 - -

All Vendors
UK

Metaswitch falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,429 15,339 16,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.83% 47.19% 44.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,832 9,388 10,318
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,168 783 734
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.69 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.20 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -13.28% -31.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £62.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.26 £28.00
% change year-on-year +31.70% -24.07% -29.29%

Metaswitch
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metaswitch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Metaswitch job vacancy trend in the UK

Metaswitch
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Metaswitch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Metaswitch

Metaswitch
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metaswitch within the UK over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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 - 5 £359 - 8
East of England - 3 £367 - 6
UK excluding London - 3 £367 - 6
London - 2 £343 - 2
Work from Home - 2 £367 - 2

Metaswitch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) RTP
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
2 4 (80.00%) Wireshark
3 3 (60.00%) Asterisk PBX
3 3 (60.00%) RTCP
4 2 (40.00%) INAP
4 2 (40.00%) tcpdump
5 1 (20.00%) DHCP
5 1 (20.00%) DNS
5 1 (20.00%) Intelligent Network
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) Locust
1 2 (40.00%) Robot Framework
1 2 (40.00%) TestCafe
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Newman
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Engineering Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (60.00%) Servlets
2 2 (40.00%) Taurus
2 2 (40.00%) WebRTC
3 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Media Streaming
1 1 (20.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) CentOS
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Conversational AI
3 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Dialogic
3 1 (20.00%) Google