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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 446 417
Rank change year-on-year -120 -29 +34
Contract jobs citing VoIP 100 108 146
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.33% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.98% 2.86% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 75 83
10th Percentile £300 £205 £213
25th Percentile £313 £263 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £473
Median % change year-on-year - -20.72% +18.25%
75th Percentile £450 £495 £644
90th Percentile £500 £550 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £420
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.71% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile - £33.90 £21.91
25th Percentile - £61.75 £45.84
Median hourly rate £28.00 £63.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.91% -12.41% +208.51%
75th Percentile £50.50 £65.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £64.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £15.33 £73.75
% change year-on-year +82.65% -79.21% +213.83%

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 5,044 3,781 4,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.32% 11.57% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,936 2,333 2,657
10th Percentile £231 £230 £231
25th Percentile £385 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.95% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -9.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 198 261
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.72 £42.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -17.48% -8.83%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £73.60 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -38.49% -25.89% -0.11%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -113 90 £375 - 115
UK excluding London -115 64 £400 +6.67% 93
North of England -58 29 £500 +31.15% 22
London -80 28 £310 -16.78% 29
Yorkshire -12 23 £500 +42.86% 7
Work from Home -58 18 £375 +27.12% 28
South East -56 10 £400 - 25
East of England -23 8 £367 +54.53% 16
West Midlands -50 8 £500 +17.65% 12
Midlands -52 8 £500 +29.03% 19
South West -62 8 £560 +72.15% 5
North West -57 4 £300 -27.27% 12
Scotland -28 2 - - 3
North East -39 2 £363 - 3
Northern Ireland -2 1 £104 - 1

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 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.00%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.00%) Azure
2 13 (13.00%) GCP
2 13 (13.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (9.00%) AWS
4 7 (7.00%) Google Workspace
5 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.00%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (2.00%) GitHub
6 2 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.00%) IaaS
7 1 (1.00%) PaaS
7 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.00%) Unified Communications
2 22 (22.00%) Firewall
3 20 (20.00%) LAN
4 17 (17.00%) DHCP
5 16 (16.00%) WAN
6 15 (15.00%) DNS
7 14 (14.00%) VLAN
7 14 (14.00%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (13.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 12 (12.00%) PSTN
10 11 (11.00%) Network Security
10 11 (11.00%) VPN
11 9 (9.00%) TCP/IP
12 8 (8.00%) BGP
12 8 (8.00%) IPsec
12 8 (8.00%) OSPF
12 8 (8.00%) Wireless
13 7 (7.00%) IP Telephony
13 7 (7.00%) RTP
13 7 (7.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.00%) GitLab
2 2 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.00%) JMeter
2 2 (2.00%) Locust
2 2 (2.00%) Robot Framework
2 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.00%) TestCafe
3 1 (1.00%) Git
3 1 (1.00%) Newman
General
1 39 (39.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.00%) Telecoms
3 16 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.00%) Military
6 9 (9.00%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (6.00%) Police
8 5 (5.00%) Legal
9 4 (4.00%) Finance
10 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.00%) Front Office
12 1 (1.00%) Electronics
12 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (19.00%) Architect
1 19 (19.00%) Solutions Architect
2 17 (17.00%) Analyst
3 16 (16.00%) Network Engineer
4 15 (15.00%) Senior
5 11 (11.00%) Sales Manager
5 11 (11.00%) Telecoms Manager
6 10 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (8.00%) Telephony Analyst
8 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) IT Support
8 7 (7.00%) Service Analyst
8 7 (7.00%) Service Desk Analyst
9 5 (5.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) IT Analyst
9 5 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
9 5 (5.00%) Support Analyst
9 5 (5.00%) Telephony Support
9 5 (5.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 4 (4.00%) Servlets
2 2 (2.00%) ODBC
2 2 (2.00%) Taurus
2 2 (2.00%) WebRTC
3 1 (1.00%) LDAP
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.00%) Driving Licence
2 11 (11.00%) PKI
3 10 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 10 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (8.00%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (7.00%) Smartphone
6 6 (6.00%) Handset
6 6 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (6.00%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.00%) Clustering
7 3 (3.00%) Fat Client
7 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.00%) Smartcard
7 3 (3.00%) Thin Client
8 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.00%) Media Streaming
8 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.00%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.00%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (30.00%) Windows
2 13 (13.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (11.00%) Linux
4 9 (9.00%) Android
5 8 (8.00%) Apple iOS
6 7 (7.00%) Mac OS
6 7 (7.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.00%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.00%) CentOS
9 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (14.00%) ITIL
3 12 (12.00%) Business Development
3 12 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
3 12 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 11 (11.00%) Data Protection
5 10 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 10 (10.00%) Migration
6 7 (7.00%) Agile
6 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (7.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (7.00%) Network Design
6 7 (7.00%) Runbook
6 7 (7.00%) Validation
7 6 (6.00%) Network Architecture
7 6 (6.00%) Patch Management
8 5 (5.00%) DevOps
8 5 (5.00%) High Availability
8 5 (5.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.00%) Java
2 3 (3.00%) Python
3 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.00%) SQL
3 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.00%) C
4 1 (1.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 32 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.00%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (14.00%) CCNP
5 9 (9.00%) Degree
6 8 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (6.00%) DV Cleared
8 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.00%) CCNA
9 3 (3.00%) MOS
10 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.00%) CISA
11 1 (1.00%) CISM
11 1 (1.00%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.00%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.00%) Docker
3 3 (3.00%) Firmware
3 3 (3.00%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (12.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (5.00%) WSUS
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.00%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (3.00%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 53 (53.00%) Cisco
2 26 (26.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.00%) Google
4 7 (7.00%) CheckPoint
4 7 (7.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 5 (5.00%) Metaswitch
6 5 (5.00%) Red Box
6 5 (5.00%) VMware
7 4 (4.00%) Mitel
8 3 (3.00%) Aruba
8 3 (3.00%) F5
8 3 (3.00%) McAfee
8 3 (3.00%) Oracle
9 2 (2.00%) Citrix
9 2 (2.00%) Dialogic
9 2 (2.00%) Huawei
10 1 (1.00%) Ribbon
10 1 (1.00%) Splunk