VoIP Contract Job Trends

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring VoIP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 450 424
Rank change year-on-year -134 -26 +34
Contract jobs citing VoIP 90 114 152
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.77% 2.93% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 77 86
10th Percentile £285 £206 £206
25th Percentile £305 £263 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £479
Median % change year-on-year - -21.67% +19.69%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £669
90th Percentile £526 £550 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £363 £491
% change year-on-year +15.86% -26.21% +15.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile - £33.90 £23.04
25th Percentile - £61.75 £25.38
Median hourly rate £28.00 £63.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.91% -9.29% +197.87%
75th Percentile £50.50 £65.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £64.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £15.33 £71.25
% change year-on-year +82.65% -78.48% +203.19%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

VoIP 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 5,087 3,890 4,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.47% 11.80% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,997 2,381 2,743
10th Percentile £250 £238 £230
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +2.13% -6.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 202 288
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% -10.00% -9.62%
75th Percentile £65.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.81 £42.50 £55.75
% change year-on-year -39.28% -23.76% -1.32%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VoIP job vacancy trend in the UK

VoIP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

VoIP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VoIP over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VoIP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VoIP

VoIP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VoIP over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the UK over the 6 months to 31 August 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 81 £375 - 78
UK excluding London -114 55 £420 +15.86% 67
North of England -53 28 £500 +31.15% 17
London -70 27 £310 -17.06% 16
Yorkshire -22 23 £500 +42.86% 8
Work from Home -48 16 £400 -5.88% 12
South East -68 10 £400 +3.23% 21
South West -60 8 £560 +65.78% 5
West Midlands -48 7 £500 +25.00% 9
Midlands -54 7 £500 +42.86% 13
North West -53 4 £300 -27.27% 6
East of England -15 2 £388 +63.16% 9
Northern Ireland -3 1 £104 -
Scotland -27 1 - - 2
North East -37 1 £363 - 4

VoIP
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.11%) CMS
2 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (15.56%) Azure
3 7 (7.78%) GCP
4 6 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.67%) Google Workspace
5 5 (5.56%) AWS
6 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.11%) IaaS
6 1 (1.11%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.11%) PaaS
6 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (26.67%) Unified Communications
2 21 (23.33%) Firewall
3 19 (21.11%) LAN
4 16 (17.78%) DHCP
5 15 (16.67%) DNS
5 15 (16.67%) VLAN
6 14 (15.56%) WAN
7 13 (14.44%) Cisco Nexus
7 13 (14.44%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (13.33%) PSTN
9 10 (11.11%) Network Security
9 10 (11.11%) VPN
10 9 (10.00%) TCP/IP
10 9 (10.00%) Wireless
11 8 (8.89%) BGP
11 8 (8.89%) OSPF
12 7 (7.78%) IP Telephony
12 7 (7.78%) IPsec
12 7 (7.78%) WLAN
13 6 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 39 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.67%) Telecoms
3 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (7.78%) Military
7 6 (6.67%) Police
8 5 (5.56%) Finance
9 4 (4.44%) Legal
10 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.22%) Front Office
12 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Architect
1 19 (21.11%) Solutions Architect
2 15 (16.67%) Analyst
2 15 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 15 (16.67%) Senior
3 11 (12.22%) Sales Manager
3 11 (12.22%) Telecoms Manager
4 10 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Telephony Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) IT Support
7 5 (5.56%) Audio Visual Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) IT Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Service Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Support Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Telephony Support
7 5 (5.56%) Unified Communications Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.22%) ODBC
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.11%) Terraform
2 1 (1.11%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 11 (12.22%) PKI
3 10 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 10 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (8.89%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.67%) Virtual Team
6 5 (5.56%) Handset
6 5 (5.56%) Smartphone
7 3 (3.33%) Clustering
7 3 (3.33%) Fat Client
7 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.33%) Smartcard
7 3 (3.33%) Thin Client
8 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.11%) Acoustics
9 1 (1.11%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.11%) Windows
2 14 (15.56%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.78%) Android
3 7 (7.78%) Linux
4 6 (6.67%) Apple iOS
5 5 (5.56%) Mac OS
5 5 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.44%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.11%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (13.33%) Business Development
3 12 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 11 (12.22%) Data Protection
5 10 (11.11%) ITIL
5 10 (11.11%) Migration
6 9 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (8.89%) Customer Service
8 7 (7.78%) Agile
8 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (7.78%) Runbook
9 6 (6.67%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.67%) Network Architecture
9 6 (6.67%) Network Design
9 6 (6.67%) Patch Management
10 5 (5.56%) Data Collection
10 5 (5.56%) High Availability
10 5 (5.56%) Server Management
11 4 (4.44%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.22%) SQL
1 2 (2.22%) T-SQL
2 1 (1.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 22 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 18 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (15.56%) CCNP
5 9 (10.00%) Degree
6 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.33%) CCNA
7 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.11%) CISA
9 1 (1.11%) CISM
9 1 (1.11%) CISSP
9 1 (1.11%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.11%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.44%) Firmware
4 3 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.22%) FreeRADIUS
5 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (13.33%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.56%) WSUS
3 3 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (56.67%) Cisco
2 28 (31.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.78%) CheckPoint
3 7 (7.78%) Red Hat
3 7 (7.78%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.67%) Google
5 5 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 5 (5.56%) Red Box
5 5 (5.56%) VMware
6 3 (3.33%) F5
6 3 (3.33%) McAfee
6 3 (3.33%) Mitel
7 2 (2.22%) Aruba
7 2 (2.22%) Citrix
7 2 (2.22%) Huawei
8 1 (1.11%) Dell
8 1 (1.11%) Draytek
8 1 (1.11%) Remedy
8 1 (1.11%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.11%) WatchGuard