Telephony Engineer Contract Job Trends

Telephony Engineer
UK

The median Telephony Engineer daily rate in the UK is £445, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 565 620
Rank change year-on-year +21 +55 +224
Contract jobs requiring a Telephony Engineer 15 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.021% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.023% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 16
10th Percentile £280 £254 £331
25th Percentile £356 £316 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £369 £425
Median % change year-on-year +20.68% -13.24% -
75th Percentile £575 £467 £488
90th Percentile £649 £576 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £388 £425
% change year-on-year +29.03% -8.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.03 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.03 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,996 35,551 46,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.96% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,952 21,923 31,999
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,570 1,683 1,490
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +5.88% +93.18%

Telephony Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Telephony Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Telephony Engineer in the UK

Telephony Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Telephony Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Telephony Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Telephony Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Telephony Engineer over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Telephony Engineer in the UK

Telephony Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Telephony Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Telephony Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Telephony Engineer
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telephony Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 September 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 +36 12 £500 +35.59% 5
UK excluding London +5 12 £500 +29.03% 7
South West +24 5 £631 -0.20%
Midlands -9 4 £425 - 3
Work from Home +7 3 £633 +47.52%
Scotland - 3 £445 - 2
London +27 2 £269 -23.21%
East Midlands -4 2 £500 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £313 -

Telephony Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Telephony Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Telephony Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) VoIP
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (26.67%) CCNP
4 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (26.67%) BGP
4 4 (26.67%) JIRA
4 4 (26.67%) Atlassian
4 4 (26.67%) NsoIT
4 4 (26.67%) Critical Thinking
4 4 (26.67%) Confluence
4 4 (26.67%) Unified Communications
4 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Degree
5 3 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (20.00%) System Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Service Management
6 2 (13.33%) Project Management
6 2 (13.33%) MPLS
6 2 (13.33%) OSPF
6 2 (13.33%) Python
6 2 (13.33%) PBX
6 2 (13.33%) PSTN
6 2 (13.33%) VPN

Telephony Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) VoIP
2 4 (26.67%) BGP
2 4 (26.67%) Unified Communications
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) IPsec
3 2 (13.33%) MPLS
3 2 (13.33%) OSPF
3 2 (13.33%) PBX
3 2 (13.33%) PSTN
3 2 (13.33%) Skype
3 2 (13.33%) VLAN
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) NETCONF
1 2 (13.33%) RESTCONF
2 1 (6.67%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Critical Thinking
1 4 (26.67%) NsoIT
2 3 (20.00%) Service Management
2 3 (20.00%) System Testing
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Validation
3 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
3 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) CCNP
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) Atlassian
4 2 (13.33%) VMware