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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 438 371
Rank change year-on-year -135 -67 +105
Contract jobs citing VoIP 74 94 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.31% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.53% 2.49% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 65 120
10th Percentile £166 £203 £190
25th Percentile £200 £250 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% -17.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £413 £525 £638
90th Percentile £568 £550 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £248 £388 £450
% change year-on-year -36.13% -13.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 14
10th Percentile - - £19.93
25th Percentile £28.00 £61.75 £24.39
Median hourly rate £49.50 £63.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year -22.05% +146.46% -20.72%
75th Percentile £71.88 £65.25 £60.91
90th Percentile £72.55 - £74.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.50 - £25.77
% change year-on-year - - -35.59%

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 4,844 3,768 5,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.48% 12.33% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,966 2,296 3,192
10th Percentile £250 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.43%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £472 £490
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.62% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 179 433
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.99 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.11 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.76% - +114.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.03 £80.20 £73.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.55 £36.57 £47.50
% change year-on-year -27.40% -23.01% +115.91%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 29 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 -132 65 £363 -13.69% 72
UK excluding London -115 50 £248 -36.13% 72
London -74 22 £325 -13.33% 9
North of England -54 21 £200 -42.86% 22
Yorkshire -31 19 £200 -42.86% 11
Work from Home -52 15 £350 -26.51% 19
South West -52 9 £562 +81.37% 9
South East -67 9 £420 +2.44% 26
Scotland -3 6 £178 -29.00% 3
East of England -25 3 £350 -8.20% 9
North East -35 2 £249 - 2
Midlands -59 2 - - 4
West Midlands -60 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland 0 1 £104 - 1
Wales -20 1 £150 -53.85% 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 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.35%) CMS
2 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (14.86%) GCP
3 10 (13.51%) Azure
4 9 (12.16%) Google Workspace
5 6 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 6 (8.11%) OneDrive
6 5 (6.76%) AWS
7 2 (2.70%) IaaS
7 2 (2.70%) PaaS
7 2 (2.70%) SaaS
8 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.57%) DHCP
2 12 (16.22%) DNS
3 9 (12.16%) Firewall
3 9 (12.16%) WAN
3 9 (12.16%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (10.81%) LAN
4 8 (10.81%) Unified Communications
4 8 (10.81%) VPN
5 7 (9.46%) TCP/IP
6 6 (8.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (8.11%) Network Security
6 6 (8.11%) VLAN
7 5 (6.76%) MPLS
7 5 (6.76%) SAN
7 5 (6.76%) SD-WAN
7 5 (6.76%) WebEx
8 4 (5.41%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (5.41%) PBX
8 4 (5.41%) PSTN
8 4 (5.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (41.89%) Social Skills
2 20 (27.03%) Telecoms
3 11 (14.86%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.51%) Military
5 9 (12.16%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Finance
7 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Front Office
9 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.35%) Legal
9 1 (1.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (18.92%) Analyst
2 11 (14.86%) Sales Manager
2 11 (14.86%) Telecoms Manager
3 9 (12.16%) Service Analyst
3 9 (12.16%) Service Desk Analyst
4 7 (9.46%) Architect
4 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) IT Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Network Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Senior
5 6 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (8.11%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Audio Visual Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) IT Support
6 5 (6.76%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Unified Communications Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Deployment Specialist
8 3 (4.05%) Network Architect
8 3 (4.05%) Telephony Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.70%) XMPP
2 1 (1.35%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Smartphone
2 7 (9.46%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (8.11%) Driving Licence
4 5 (6.76%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.76%) Virtual Team
5 4 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.41%) PKI
6 3 (4.05%) Clustering
6 3 (4.05%) Fat Client
6 3 (4.05%) Smartcard
6 3 (4.05%) Thin Client
7 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.35%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 38 (51.35%) Windows
2 15 (20.27%) Windows Server
3 13 (17.57%) Mac OS
4 9 (12.16%) Android
4 9 (12.16%) Apple iOS
5 8 (10.81%) Linux
6 7 (9.46%) Windows 10
7 5 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.35%) VMS
8 1 (1.35%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.30%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (22.97%) ITIL
3 14 (18.92%) Customer Service
4 13 (17.57%) Business Development
4 13 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (12.16%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (12.16%) ITSM
6 7 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (8.11%) Agile
7 6 (8.11%) Data Protection
7 6 (8.11%) Migration
7 6 (8.11%) Runbook
8 5 (6.76%) Asset Management
8 5 (6.76%) High Availability
8 5 (6.76%) IT Asset Management
8 5 (6.76%) Network Architecture
8 5 (6.76%) Patch Management
8 5 (6.76%) Server Management
8 5 (6.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.70%) Python
2 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (31.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.86%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (12.16%) Degree
5 8 (10.81%) CCNP
5 8 (10.81%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (9.46%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.05%) CCNA
7 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.35%) CCDA
9 1 (1.35%) CCIP
9 1 (1.35%) CISA
9 1 (1.35%) CISM
9 1 (1.35%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.35%) NCSC
1 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 20 (27.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.11%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.05%) Firmware
3 3 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (12.16%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.76%) WSUS
3 3 (4.05%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.70%) Terraform
5 1 (1.35%) Ansible
5 1 (1.35%) CASB
5 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 28 (37.84%) Cisco
3 11 (14.86%) ServiceNow
4 9 (12.16%) Google
5 7 (9.46%) Red Hat
6 5 (6.76%) Red Box
6 5 (6.76%) VMware
7 3 (4.05%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.05%) McAfee
8 2 (2.70%) EMC
8 2 (2.70%) F5
8 2 (2.70%) Huawei
8 2 (2.70%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.35%) Arista
9 1 (1.35%) Citrix
9 1 (1.35%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.35%) Genesys
9 1 (1.35%) Juniper
9 1 (1.35%) Meraki
9 1 (1.35%) Zscaler