MGCP Contracts

Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring MGCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MGCP 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 515 580 711
Rank change year-on-year +65 +131 +142
Contract jobs citing MGCP 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.005% 0.012%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% 0.036% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £700
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -42.86% +74.45%
75th Percentile £525 - £750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £700
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

MGCP 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MGCP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MGCP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MGCP in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MGCP 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 +60 5 £463 +15.63% 1
London +41 5 £463 +15.63%
Work from Home +41 1 - -

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) H.323
2 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
2 3 (60.00%) WebEx
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 2 (40.00%) VoIP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Digital Signage
2 2 (40.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco UCCE
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco