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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 378 415
Rank change year-on-year -115 +37 +89
Contract jobs citing VoIP 87 144 186
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.45% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.22% 3.51% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 91 124
10th Percentile £213 £223 £223
25th Percentile £325 £243 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £480
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -16.67% +12.94%
75th Percentile £553 £476 £630
90th Percentile £625 £569 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £370 £445
% change year-on-year +20.27% -16.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - £41.10 £19.13
25th Percentile £44.86 - £21.81
Median hourly rate £48.72 £75.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.04% +203.03% +32.00%
75th Percentile £52.58 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £92.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £75.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -35.04% +200.00% +41.96%

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 3,913 4,097 5,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.49% 12.88% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,580 2,396 3,637
10th Percentile £204 £213 £210
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 141 349
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £17.74
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £23.09
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +134.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.41 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +29.05% -44.44% +179.48%

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 17 January 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
Top 16 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 17 January 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 -122 69 £500 +25.39% 136
UK excluding London -88 60 £445 +20.27% 137
London -26 21 £519 +14.32% 8
Work from Home -15 17 £550 +30.18% 72
North of England -66 15 £300 +23.71% 36
South East -26 11 £500 +100.00% 38
Scotland +8 9 £445 +11.25% 7
North West -21 9 £425 +73.47% 15
South West -44 9 £500 +21.21% 16
East of England -14 8 £320 +30.61% 16
West Midlands -47 5 £425 +10.39% 11
Midlands -51 5 £425 +14.86% 20
Yorkshire -59 4 £225 -4.56% 17
North East -11 2 £750 +127.27% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Wales 0 1 £165 -42.61% 5

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 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.45%) Skype for Business
3 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.94%) Azure
2 12 (13.79%) GCP
3 10 (11.49%) Google Workspace
4 9 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.75%) AWS
5 5 (5.75%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.15%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (1.15%) PaaS
8 1 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.09%) LAN
1 14 (16.09%) WAN
2 13 (14.94%) DNS
2 13 (14.94%) Firewall
3 11 (12.64%) DHCP
4 9 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (9.20%) OSPF
5 8 (9.20%) Unified Communications
5 8 (9.20%) VLAN
5 8 (9.20%) VPN
6 7 (8.05%) BGP
6 7 (8.05%) TCP/IP
7 6 (6.90%) CTI
8 5 (5.75%) 5G
8 5 (5.75%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (5.75%) LTE
9 4 (4.60%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (4.60%) EIGRP
9 4 (4.60%) RTP
9 4 (4.60%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.45%) Power BI
3 2 (2.30%) Tableau
4 1 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.15%) GitLab
2 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.15%) JMeter
2 1 (1.15%) Locust
2 1 (1.15%) Newman
2 1 (1.15%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.15%) Selenium
2 1 (1.15%) TestCafe
General
1 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Telecoms
3 17 (19.54%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.20%) Finance
5 8 (9.20%) Military
6 4 (4.60%) Retail
7 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Electronics
7 1 (1.15%) Law
7 1 (1.15%) Local Government
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
7 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (17.24%) Analyst
2 11 (12.64%) Service Desk Analyst
3 10 (11.49%) Network Engineer
3 10 (11.49%) Service Analyst
4 9 (10.34%) Senior
5 8 (9.20%) Developer
6 6 (6.90%) IT Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) Telephony Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) Genesys Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Lead
8 4 (4.60%) IT Support
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (4.60%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Administrator
9 3 (3.45%) Cisco Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) VML
1 4 (4.60%) XMPP
2 2 (2.30%) Node.js
2 2 (2.30%) REST
3 1 (1.15%) Express.js
3 1 (1.15%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (1.15%) JFC
3 1 (1.15%) Middleware
3 1 (1.15%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Smartphone
2 6 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.90%) IVR
2 6 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.75%) Operational Technology
3 5 (5.75%) SCADA
3 5 (5.75%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (4.60%) iPhone
5 3 (3.45%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.30%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.30%) IoT
7 1 (1.15%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.15%) Housing Association
7 1 (1.15%) IBM XIV
7 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.48%) Windows
2 14 (16.09%) Android
3 12 (13.79%) Apple iOS
4 11 (12.64%) Mac OS
4 11 (12.64%) Windows Server
5 7 (8.05%) Linux
6 3 (3.45%) Unix
6 3 (3.45%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.15%) CentOS
7 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (25.29%) ITIL
3 17 (19.54%) Customer Service
4 15 (17.24%) Migration
5 14 (16.09%) Roadmaps
6 13 (14.94%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (11.49%) Computer Science
8 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (6.90%) Use Case
10 5 (5.75%) Agile
10 5 (5.75%) Change Management
10 5 (5.75%) Configuration Management
10 5 (5.75%) DevOps
10 5 (5.75%) Knowledge Transfer
10 5 (5.75%) Load Balancing
10 5 (5.75%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (5.75%) Value Proposition
11 4 (4.60%) Business Continuity
11 4 (4.60%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.90%) PowerShell
1 6 (6.90%) Python
1 6 (6.90%) SQL
2 2 (2.30%) R
3 1 (1.15%) Bash
3 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.39%) Degree
2 16 (18.39%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.09%) CCNP
3 14 (16.09%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (11.49%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (10.34%) CCIE
6 5 (5.75%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.60%) CCIE Collaboration
7 4 (4.60%) DBS Check
7 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.45%) CCNA
9 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.15%) PMP
10 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) SLA
2 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.15%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.15%) NCSC
3 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (16.09%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.30%) XenApp
4 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.34%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (3.45%) Ansible
2 3 (3.45%) SCCM
3 2 (2.30%) AirWatch
3 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.30%) SCOM
3 2 (2.30%) Terraform
4 1 (1.15%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco UCCE
4 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.15%) Nagios
4 1 (1.15%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.15%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (1.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (34.48%) Cisco
2 24 (27.59%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.49%) Google
4 8 (9.20%) Genesys
5 7 (8.05%) VMware
6 6 (6.90%) Citrix
6 6 (6.90%) F5
7 5 (5.75%) Aruba
7 5 (5.75%) Avaya
8 4 (4.60%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.60%) Meraki
9 3 (3.45%) BT
10 2 (2.30%) Dell
10 2 (2.30%) HP
10 2 (2.30%) Juniper
10 2 (2.30%) Nokia
10 2 (2.30%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.30%) Ribbon
10 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.30%) Verint