VoIP Contracts

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VoIP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VoIP over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 400 520
Rank change year-on-year -19 +120 -11
Contract jobs citing VoIP 100 202 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.67% 3.58% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 116 119
10th Percentile £223 £190 £185
25th Percentile £243 £350 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £443
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +12.97% +10.65%
75th Percentile £515 £602 £573
90th Percentile £565 £672 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -31.58% - +33.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 9
10th Percentile £35.45 £19.45 £14.25
25th Percentile £60.88 £24.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% +31.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile - £26.15 £22.63
90th Percentile - £77.23 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £25.77 £19.00
% change year-on-year +191.09% +35.61% +11.76%

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 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VoIP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VoIP.

Daily rate trend for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VoIP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VoIP.

Hourly rate trend for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VoIP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Top 15 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 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 -23 92 £425 -12.82% 196
UK excluding London -23 62 £325 -31.58% 173
London +12 35 £450 -10.00% 30
South West +32 23 £522 -12.96% 18
North of England +15 14 £240 -43.53% 58
Work from Home +9 13 £478 -13.18% 80
South East +21 12 £466 +16.50% 47
Yorkshire +21 8 £236 -55.41% 18
East of England +31 5 £245 -49.74% 20
North West -3 5 £245 -53.33% 36
Wales +7 4 £288 - 8
Midlands +3 3 £438 +16.67% 17
West Midlands +2 3 £438 +9.38% 8
Scotland -4 1 £250 -58.33% 3
North East -5 1 - - 7

VoIP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 15 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.00%) Skype for Business
3 2 (2.00%) CMS
3 2 (2.00%) IIS
4 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (19.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (16.00%) OneDrive
3 11 (11.00%) PaaS
3 11 (11.00%) SaaS
4 8 (8.00%) Azure
5 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.00%) GCP
6 3 (3.00%) AWS
7 2 (2.00%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 31 (31.00%) WAN
2 27 (27.00%) LAN
3 26 (26.00%) VPN
4 25 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
5 24 (24.00%) DHCP
6 23 (23.00%) DNS
6 23 (23.00%) Firewall
7 21 (21.00%) PBX
8 19 (19.00%) VLAN
9 16 (16.00%) Unified Communications
10 15 (15.00%) Wireless
11 13 (13.00%) TCP/IP
12 10 (10.00%) Network Security
13 9 (9.00%) BGP
13 9 (9.00%) MPLS
14 8 (8.00%) OSPF
15 7 (7.00%) PSTN
15 7 (7.00%) SD-WAN
16 6 (6.00%) Internet
16 6 (6.00%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) MySQL
2 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Gerrit
1 1 (1.00%) Git
1 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 27 (27.00%) Telecoms
2 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.00%) Finance
4 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.00%) Military
6 4 (4.00%) Billing
6 4 (4.00%) Electronics
7 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.00%) Marketing
8 2 (2.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Aviation
9 1 (1.00%) Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.00%) French Language
9 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Legal
9 1 (1.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 12 (12.00%) Network Engineer
3 11 (11.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 11 (11.00%) Desktop Support
4 10 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 9 (9.00%) Architect
5 9 (9.00%) Senior
6 8 (8.00%) Voice Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Consultant
7 6 (6.00%) IT Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) IT Support
7 6 (6.00%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Desktop Support
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Support Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 4 (4.00%) Telecoms Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.00%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.00%) Yocto
3 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.00%) POSIX
3 1 (1.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.00%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (10.00%) Blackberry
3 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.00%) Clustering
4 3 (3.00%) Digital TV
4 3 (3.00%) IoT
4 3 (3.00%) IVR
4 3 (3.00%) NHS
4 3 (3.00%) STB
5 2 (2.00%) Anti-Spyware
5 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.00%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.00%) Windows
2 18 (18.00%) Windows 10
3 9 (9.00%) Linux
4 4 (4.00%) VMS
5 3 (3.00%) Android
5 3 (3.00%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (3.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.00%) OpenWrt
6 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (19.00%) Customer Service
2 19 (19.00%) Migration
3 15 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (13.00%) Customer Requirements
5 12 (12.00%) Commercial Awareness
5 12 (12.00%) ITIL
6 11 (11.00%) Roadmaps
7 10 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
7 10 (10.00%) Network Design
8 9 (9.00%) Agile
8 9 (9.00%) Service Design
8 9 (9.00%) Thought Leadership
8 9 (9.00%) Validation
9 8 (8.00%) Cost Reduction
9 8 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (8.00%) Product Roadmap
10 6 (6.00%) Service Delivery
11 5 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (5.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.00%) C
1 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (3.00%) SQL
2 2 (2.00%) Perl
3 1 (1.00%) C++
3 1 (1.00%) Go
3 1 (1.00%) Java
3 1 (1.00%) Python
3 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (28.00%) Security Cleared
3 25 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 24 (24.00%) CCNP
5 15 (15.00%) DV Cleared
6 14 (14.00%) CCNA
7 10 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (8.00%) Degree
9 4 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.00%) A+ Certification
10 2 (2.00%) CCIE
10 2 (2.00%) DBS Check
10 2 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.00%) CCIE Collaboration
11 1 (1.00%) CCNA CyberOps
11 1 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) SLA
2 2 (2.00%) DICOM
2 2 (2.00%) HL7
2 2 (2.00%) QA
3 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (19.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.00%) KVM
3 3 (3.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 15 (15.00%) SCCM
2 13 (13.00%) AppManager
3 7 (7.00%) Cisco CUCM
4 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.00%) FortiGate
6 3 (3.00%) Cisco UCCX
7 2 (2.00%) AirWatch
7 2 (2.00%) CASB
7 2 (2.00%) XenMobile
8 1 (1.00%) Ansible
8 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.00%) OfficeScan
8 1 (1.00%) PaperCut
8 1 (1.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (1.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 49 (49.00%) Cisco
2 30 (30.00%) VMware
3 24 (24.00%) Microsoft
4 17 (17.00%) Juniper
4 17 (17.00%) Palo Alto
5 15 (15.00%) F5
5 15 (15.00%) Ivanti
6 13 (13.00%) Ericsson
7 12 (12.00%) Nokia
8 11 (11.00%) Avaya
9 10 (10.00%) Ribbon
10 7 (7.00%) Aruba
10 7 (7.00%) Mitel
11 4 (4.00%) EMC
11 4 (4.00%) Google
12 3 (3.00%) Adobe
12 3 (3.00%) Apple
12 3 (3.00%) Oracle
12 3 (3.00%) Remedy
12 3 (3.00%) Splunk