Unified Communications Consultant Contract Job Trends

Unified Communications Consultant
UK

The median Unified Communications Consultant daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 532 586
Rank change year-on-year -110 +54 +96
Contract jobs requiring a Unified Communications Consultant 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.004% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £525 £488
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 46,545 27,461 40,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.26% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,281 17,668 26,127
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,104 1,179 2,967
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.97 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.79 £16.37
Median hourly rate £43.61 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.56% -26.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

Unified Communications Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Unified Communications Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Unified Communications Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Unified Communications Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Unified Communications Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Unified Communications Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Unified Communications Consultant
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unified Communications Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 18 June 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 -120 2 £475 -5.00% 2
South West -24 1 - - 2
UK excluding London -100 1 - - 2
Work from Home - 1 - - 2

Unified Communications Consultant Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 June 2026, Unified Communications Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Unified Communications Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) PBX
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN

Unified Communications Consultant Skill Set
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 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) PBX
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft