VoIP Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VoIP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Voice Over IP (VoIP) UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	354	318	271
Rank change year-on-year	-36	-47
Contract jobs citing VoIP	276	385	451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.59%	0.71%	0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	4.28%	4.42%	5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted	156	207	249
Median daily rate	£355	£375	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-5.33%	+7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£156	£170	£172
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£487	£516	£502
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£360	£331
% change year-on-year	-2.77%	+8.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted	27	32	48
Median hourly rate	£23.50	£25.00	£20.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-6.00%	+21.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.40	£12.50	£14.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£67.10	£45.00	£49.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£22.25	£28.75	£20.50
% change year-on-year	-22.60%	+40.24%

VoIP is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	6447	8714	7937
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	13.68%	16.14%	14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted	3816	5270	4473
Median daily rate	£400	£390	£355
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.56%	+9.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£211	£240	£213
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£365	£340
% change year-on-year	+2.73%	+7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	395	433	468
Median hourly rate	£28.27	£28.50	£23.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-0.82%	+23.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£13.00	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£31.50	£24.00
% change year-on-year	-4.76%	+31.25%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing VoIP as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

VoIP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing VoIP.

Contractor daily rate trend for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing VoIP over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP.

Contractor hourly rate trend for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing VoIP over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Top 30 Contract 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 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-45	251	£375	-	126
London	-35	82	£360	-10.00%	50
South East	-5	57	£386	+3.00%	24
West Midlands	+21	31	£413	+18.70%	11
North West	+14	25	£190	-49.33%	12
East of England	-2	24	£208	-30.66%	14
Hampshire	+1	23	£386	+3.00%	7
Manchester	+16	19	£256	-41.48%	10
City of London	-4	19	£419	-1.47%	12
Scotland	+48	18	£151	-55.40%	2
Berkshire	+12	15	£625	+85.18%	6
South West	-21	15	£254	-21.92%	9
Coventry	+25	13	£413	+98.79%	1
Cambridgeshire	+11	12	£195	-25.47%	1
Yorkshire	+26	10	£413	+25.00%	3
Southampton	-3	9	£388	+3.33%	1
Birmingham	+13	8	£363	-2.02%	3
Surrey	+9	8	£385	+6.94%	6
Cambridge	-	8	£183	-	1
West Sussex	+19	7	£395	-16.84%
Newbury	+10	7	-	-
Aberdeen	-	7	£151	-
Crawley	+4	6	£395	-16.84%
East Midlands	-2	6	£313	-10.77%	2
Basingstoke	-10	6	£450	-	3
Portsmouth	-4	5	£375	-	1
Bedfordshire	-11	5	£285	-10.93%	1
Reading	+18	4	-	-	4
South Yorkshire	+5	4	£350	+60.00%
Hertfordshire	-2	4	-	-	7

VoIP
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing VoIP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for VoIP.

1	320 (54.05%)	Cisco
2	204 (34.46%)	Firewall
3	203 (34.29%)	WAN
4	190 (32.09%)	LAN
5	163 (27.53%)	Windows
6	162 (27.36%)	Cisco Certification
7	125 (21.11%)	Microsoft
8	124 (20.95%)	Active Directory
9	107 (18.07%)	VPN
10	104 (17.57%)	Telecoms
11	102 (17.23%)	CCNP
12	95 (16.05%)	ITIL
13	94 (15.88%)	Wireless
14	92 (15.54%)	TCP/IP
15	89 (15.03%)	CCNA

16	87 (14.70%)	VMware
17	79 (13.34%)	Security Cleared
18	75 (12.67%)	DNS
18	75 (12.67%)	Microsoft Office
19	72 (12.16%)	Linux
20	69 (11.66%)	Migration
21	68 (11.49%)	Data Centre
22	66 (11.15%)	Windows Server
22	66 (11.15%)	Unified Communications
23	65 (10.98%)	MPLS
24	61 (10.30%)	CheckPoint
25	60 (10.14%)	Project Management
25	60 (10.14%)	SC Cleared
25	60 (10.14%)	Network Security
26	59 (9.97%)	Cisco CUCM

VoIP
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	56 (9.46%)	MS Exchange
2	47 (7.94%)	Skype for Business
3	44 (7.43%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	20 (3.38%)	SharePoint
5	18 (3.04%)	Exchange Server 2013
6	12 (2.03%)	Exchange Server 2007
7	10 (1.69%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
7	10 (1.69%)	IIS
8	7 (1.18%)	Confluence
8	7 (1.18%)	OpenStack
9	6 (1.01%)	Apache
9	6 (1.01%)	Apache Qpid
10	3 (0.51%)	IBM Notes
10	3 (0.51%)	Office Communications Server
11	2 (0.34%)	CMS
11	2 (0.34%)	Jetty
11	2 (0.34%)	Mongrel
11	2 (0.34%)	nginx
11	2 (0.34%)	Tomcat
11	2 (0.34%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	75 (12.67%)	Microsoft Office
2	25 (4.22%)	Microsoft Excel
3	9 (1.52%)	MS Visio
4	8 (1.35%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	3 (0.51%)	InfoPath
6	2 (0.34%)	Microsoft Project
6	2 (0.34%)	Photoshop
6	2 (0.34%)	Spreadsheet
7	1 (0.17%)	Adobe Creative Suite
7	1 (0.17%)	AutoCAD
7	1 (0.17%)	Shockwave

Business Applications
1	6 (1.01%)	Dynamics CRM
2	5 (0.84%)	Oracle Applications
3	4 (0.68%)	Cisco SocialMiner
3	4 (0.68%)	Remedy ITSM
4	2 (0.34%)	Dynamics GP
4	2 (0.34%)	Teamcenter
5	1 (0.17%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	1 (0.17%)	SystmOne

Cloud Services
1	50 (8.45%)	Office 365
2	25 (4.22%)	Microsoft Azure
3	14 (2.36%)	Amazon AWS
4	12 (2.03%)	SaaS
5	9 (1.52%)	IaaS
6	5 (0.84%)	Azure Active Directory
6	5 (0.84%)	Mimecast
7	3 (0.51%)	Yammer
8	2 (0.34%)	Amazon EC2
8	2 (0.34%)	G Suite
8	2 (0.34%)	Google App Engine
8	2 (0.34%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	2 (0.34%)	IBM Cloud
8	2 (0.34%)	PaaS
9	1 (0.17%)	Cloud Computing

Communications & Networking
1	204 (34.46%)	Firewall
2	203 (34.29%)	WAN
3	190 (32.09%)	LAN
4	107 (18.07%)	VPN
5	94 (15.88%)	Wireless
6	92 (15.54%)	TCP/IP
7	75 (12.67%)	DNS
8	66 (11.15%)	Unified Communications
9	65 (10.98%)	MPLS
10	60 (10.14%)	Network Security
11	59 (9.97%)	DHCP
12	55 (9.29%)	Cisco ASA
13	53 (8.95%)	OSPF
14	50 (8.45%)	BGP
15	46 (7.77%)	VLAN
16	45 (7.60%)	Wi-Fi
17	39 (6.59%)	Cisco Nexus
18	37 (6.25%)	PBX
19	35 (5.91%)	Ethernet
19	35 (5.91%)	ISDN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	33 (5.57%)	SQL Server
2	9 (1.52%)	Redis
2	9 (1.52%)	SQL Server 2008
3	5 (0.84%)	Data Warehouse
3	5 (0.84%)	dBASE
3	5 (0.84%)	Oracle BI EE
3	5 (0.84%)	Oracle ODI
3	5 (0.84%)	SQL Server 2012
4	4 (0.68%)	MS Access
4	4 (0.68%)	MySQL
4	4 (0.68%)	SQL Server 2005
5	2 (0.34%)	Data Mining

Development Applications
1	17 (2.87%)	GCC
2	13 (2.20%)	GDB
2	13 (2.20%)	Subversion
2	13 (2.20%)	Trac
3	10 (1.69%)	Git (software)
3	10 (1.69%)	JIRA
4	8 (1.35%)	Jenkins
5	6 (1.01%)	Bitbucket
5	6 (1.01%)	CMake
5	6 (1.01%)	GoogleTest
5	6 (1.01%)	VSS/SourceSafe
6	4 (0.68%)	Eclipse
6	4 (0.68%)	Valgrind
7	3 (0.51%)	CruiseControl
7	3 (0.51%)	Team Foundation Server
7	3 (0.51%)	TeamCity
7	3 (0.51%)	Visual Studio Team System
7	3 (0.51%)	VTune
8	2 (0.34%)	Rational DOORS
8	2 (0.34%)	Xcode

General
1	104 (17.57%)	Telecoms
2	59 (9.97%)	Finance
3	21 (3.55%)	Banking
4	9 (1.52%)	Law
4	9 (1.52%)	Legal
4	9 (1.52%)	Retail
5	7 (1.18%)	Back Office
6	6 (1.01%)	Manufacturing
7	5 (0.84%)	Advertising
7	5 (0.84%)	French Language
8	4 (0.68%)	Marketing
9	3 (0.51%)	Front Office
9	3 (0.51%)	Local Government
10	2 (0.34%)	Automotive
10	2 (0.34%)	Billing
10	2 (0.34%)	Electronics
10	2 (0.34%)	Financial Institution
10	2 (0.34%)	German Language
10	2 (0.34%)	Publishing
11	1 (0.17%)	Aerospace

Job Titles
1	135 (22.80%)	Network Engineer
2	59 (9.97%)	Analyst
3	50 (8.45%)	Project Manager
4	47 (7.94%)	Architect
4	47 (7.94%)	Cisco Engineer
5	37 (6.25%)	Support Engineer
6	28 (4.73%)	Cisco Network Engineer
7	27 (4.56%)	Consultant
7	27 (4.56%)	IT Support
8	26 (4.39%)	Network Specialist
9	25 (4.22%)	Voice Engineer
10	23 (3.89%)	Support Analyst
11	22 (3.72%)	Infrastructure Manager
11	22 (3.72%)	VoIP Engineer
12	21 (3.55%)	Desktop Support
12	21 (3.55%)	Infrastructure Engineer
13	17 (2.87%)	2nd Line Support
13	17 (2.87%)	Software Engineer
13	17 (2.87%)	VoIP Project Manager
14	16 (2.70%)	Network Consultant

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	16 (2.70%)	Elastic Stack
1	16 (2.70%)	XMPP
2	13 (2.20%)	Boost C++ Libraries
2	13 (2.20%)	STL
3	12 (2.03%)	CSS
3	12 (2.03%)	XML
4	11 (1.86%)	802.1X
4	11 (1.86%)	Web Services
5	9 (1.52%)	RESTful
6	7 (1.18%)	.NET
6	7 (1.18%)	HTML
7	5 (0.84%)	WAP
8	4 (0.68%)	Android SDK
8	4 (0.68%)	iOS SDK
9	3 (0.51%)	ASP.NET
9	3 (0.51%)	WCF
9	3 (0.51%)	WF
10	2 (0.34%)	J2EE
10	2 (0.34%)	Servlets
11	1 (0.17%)	SOAP

Miscellaneous
1	68 (11.49%)	Data Centre
2	56 (9.46%)	Analytical Skills
3	36 (6.08%)	Video Conferencing
4	34 (5.74%)	IVR
5	21 (3.55%)	Management Information System
6	17 (2.87%)	Driving Licence
6	17 (2.87%)	Handset
7	12 (2.03%)	Blackberry
7	12 (2.03%)	Private Cloud
8	11 (1.86%)	Computer Science
8	11 (1.86%)	iPad
8	11 (1.86%)	Smartphone
9	10 (1.69%)	Replication
10	9 (1.52%)	Clustering
10	9 (1.52%)	iPhone
11	7 (1.18%)	BBC
11	7 (1.18%)	CCTV
11	7 (1.18%)	CESG
12	6 (1.01%)	Cyber Attack
12	6 (1.01%)	RSA SecurID

Operating Systems
1	163 (27.53%)	Windows
2	72 (12.16%)	Linux
3	66 (11.15%)	Windows Server
4	58 (9.80%)	Windows 7
5	55 (9.29%)	Windows Server 2008
6	38 (6.42%)	Windows Server 2012
7	32 (5.41%)	Windows 10
8	23 (3.89%)	Unix
9	18 (3.04%)	Windows Server 2003
10	10 (1.69%)	Android
10	10 (1.69%)	Apple iOS
11	8 (1.35%)	Mac OS X
11	8 (1.35%)	Windows XP
12	7 (1.18%)	Mac OS
12	7 (1.18%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13	5 (0.84%)	Windows 8
14	3 (0.51%)	Windows 2000
15	1 (0.17%)	Windows 2000 Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	95 (16.05%)	ITIL
2	69 (11.66%)	Migration
3	60 (10.14%)	Project Management
4	41 (6.93%)	Network Design
5	35 (5.91%)	Network Management
6	34 (5.74%)	Network Monitoring
7	31 (5.24%)	PRINCE2
8	29 (4.90%)	Disaster Recovery
9	26 (4.39%)	Open Source
10	25 (4.22%)	Information Security
11	23 (3.89%)	Load Balancing
12	22 (3.72%)	Validation
13	21 (3.55%)	Cybersecurity
14	20 (3.38%)	Patch Management
14	20 (3.38%)	Stakeholder Management
15	18 (3.04%)	High Availability
16	17 (2.87%)	Software Engineering
16	17 (2.87%)	Vulnerability Assessment
17	16 (2.70%)	Vulnerability Management
18	15 (2.53%)	Incident Management

Programming Languages
1	33 (5.57%)	SQL
2	17 (2.87%)	Python
3	16 (2.70%)	PowerShell
4	15 (2.53%)	C
5	14 (2.36%)	C++
6	11 (1.86%)	JavaScript
6	11 (1.86%)	Perl
7	10 (1.69%)	VBScript
8	9 (1.52%)	Bash Shell
9	8 (1.35%)	C#
9	8 (1.35%)	Java
10	7 (1.18%)	Ruby
11	6 (1.01%)	PL/SQL
12	4 (0.68%)	Objective-C
13	1 (0.17%)	PHP
13	1 (0.17%)	Tcl

Qualifications
1	162 (27.36%)	Cisco Certification
2	102 (17.23%)	CCNP
3	89 (15.03%)	CCNA
4	79 (13.34%)	Security Cleared
5	60 (10.14%)	SC Cleared
6	42 (7.09%)	CCIE
7	31 (5.24%)	Microsoft Certification
8	22 (3.72%)	MCSE
9	21 (3.55%)	CCDP
9	21 (3.55%)	Degree
10	19 (3.21%)	CISSP
11	16 (2.70%)	DV Cleared
11	16 (2.70%)	SANS
11	16 (2.70%)	SSCP
12	15 (2.53%)	CCVP
12	15 (2.53%)	PMP
13	14 (2.36%)	CCNP Voice
13	14 (2.36%)	MCITP
13	14 (2.36%)	PMI Certification
14	13 (2.20%)	MCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	34 (5.74%)	SLA
2	7 (1.18%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	7 (1.18%)	PMO
3	6 (1.01%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	5 (0.84%)	PCI DSS
5	2 (0.34%)	Data Quality
5	2 (0.34%)	Def Stans
5	2 (0.34%)	QA
6	1 (0.17%)	COBIT
6	1 (0.17%)	Cyber Essentials

System Software
1	124 (20.95%)	Active Directory
2	58 (9.80%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	19 (3.21%)	VMware ESXi
4	16 (2.70%)	Hyper-V
5	13 (2.20%)	XenApp
6	10 (1.69%)	vSphere
7	6 (1.01%)	Docker
8	5 (0.84%)	pfSense
8	5 (0.84%)	Snort
8	5 (0.84%)	Virtual Servers
9	4 (0.68%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
9	4 (0.68%)	Virtual Desktop
10	3 (0.51%)	Citrix Presentation Server
10	3 (0.51%)	Firmware
10	3 (0.51%)	NFS
10	3 (0.51%)	Virtual Machines
11	2 (0.34%)	Terminal Services
11	2 (0.34%)	Xen
12	1 (0.17%)	VMware Server
12	1 (0.17%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	59 (9.97%)	Cisco CUCM
2	38 (6.42%)	Cisco UCCX
3	32 (5.41%)	SCCM
4	20 (3.38%)	Cisco UCCE
5	16 (2.70%)	QRadar
6	13 (2.20%)	Cisco Prime
7	9 (1.52%)	Kibana
7	9 (1.52%)	logstash
8	7 (1.18%)	AirWatch
9	6 (1.01%)	FortiGate
10	5 (0.84%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10	5 (0.84%)	Nagios
10	5 (0.84%)	SCOM
11	4 (0.68%)	Microsoft Intune
11	4 (0.68%)	NetBackup
11	4 (0.68%)	Netcool
11	4 (0.68%)	Tivoli
11	4 (0.68%)	vCenter Server
12	3 (0.51%)	Cacti
12	3 (0.51%)	Failover Clustering

Vendors
1	320 (54.05%)	Cisco
2	125 (21.11%)	Microsoft
3	87 (14.70%)	VMware
4	61 (10.30%)	CheckPoint
5	53 (8.95%)	Avaya
6	51 (8.61%)	F5
7	46 (7.77%)	Juniper
8	41 (6.93%)	Citrix
9	38 (6.42%)	Apple
10	37 (6.25%)	HP
11	27 (4.56%)	Palo Alto
12	26 (4.39%)	SolarWinds
13	24 (4.05%)	NetApp
14	21 (3.55%)	Verint
15	20 (3.38%)	Fortinet
16	19 (3.21%)	IBM
17	17 (2.87%)	LogRhythm
17	17 (2.87%)	Mitel
17	17 (2.87%)	Splunk
18	16 (2.70%)	Google