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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 449 370
Rank change year-on-year -131 -79 +99
Contract jobs citing VoIP 75 102 223
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.32% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.52% 2.62% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 70 120
10th Percentile £171 £203 £190
25th Percentile £206 £253 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -25.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £434 £511 £628
90th Percentile £566 £550 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £323 £350 £450
% change year-on-year -7.86% -22.22% -
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 4,936 3,892 5,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 12.24% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,001 2,378 3,193
10th Percentile £250 £231 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £470 £490
% change year-on-year +3.83% -4.08% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 182 427
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.34 £23.17 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.57% -1.11% +100.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.50 £73.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £36.57 £47.50
% change year-on-year -28.91% -23.01% +79.25%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -146 66 £368 -8.13% 95
UK excluding London -127 51 £323 -7.86% 94
North of England -59 23 £363 +3.57% 27
London -84 22 £325 -13.33% 16
Yorkshire -32 21 £500 +42.86% 12
Work from Home -49 15 £350 -26.32% 23
South East -57 9 £420 +2.44% 34
South West -45 8 £562 +81.37% 13
Scotland -9 6 £178 -29.00% 4
East of England -28 3 £350 -8.20% 7
North East -36 2 £249 - 3
West Midlands -64 2 - - 3
Midlands -68 2 - - 6
Northern Ireland +1 1 £104 - 3
Wales -20 1 £150 -53.85% 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 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.33%) CMS
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.67%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (14.67%) Azure
2 11 (14.67%) GCP
3 9 (12.00%) Google Workspace
4 6 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.00%) OneDrive
5 5 (6.67%) AWS
6 2 (2.67%) IaaS
6 2 (2.67%) PaaS
6 2 (2.67%) SaaS
7 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.67%) DHCP
2 13 (17.33%) DNS
3 11 (14.67%) Firewall
3 11 (14.67%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (12.00%) LAN
4 9 (12.00%) TCP/IP
4 9 (12.00%) VPN
4 9 (12.00%) WAN
5 8 (10.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (10.67%) Unified Communications
6 7 (9.33%) VLAN
7 6 (8.00%) Network Security
7 6 (8.00%) Wireless
8 5 (6.67%) MPLS
8 5 (6.67%) PSTN
8 5 (6.67%) SAN
8 5 (6.67%) SD-WAN
8 5 (6.67%) WebEx
9 4 (5.33%) BGP
9 4 (5.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (26.67%) Telecoms
3 13 (17.33%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.33%) Military
5 9 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.33%) Finance
8 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.00%) Police
9 2 (2.67%) Front Office
10 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) Analyst
2 11 (14.67%) Sales Manager
2 11 (14.67%) Telecoms Manager
3 9 (12.00%) Service Analyst
3 9 (12.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 8 (10.67%) Network Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Senior
5 7 (9.33%) Architect
5 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) IT Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.00%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Audio Visual Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) IT Support
7 5 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Unified Communications Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Network Architect
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Telephony Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.33%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Smartphone
2 7 (9.33%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.00%) Driving Licence
3 6 (8.00%) PKI
4 5 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.67%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.00%) Clustering
5 3 (4.00%) Fat Client
5 3 (4.00%) Smartcard
5 3 (4.00%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 37 (49.33%) Windows
2 14 (18.67%) Windows Server
3 13 (17.33%) Mac OS
4 9 (12.00%) Android
4 9 (12.00%) Apple iOS
5 8 (10.67%) Linux
6 7 (9.33%) Windows 10
7 5 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.33%) VMS
8 1 (1.33%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (22.67%) ITIL
3 13 (17.33%) Business Development
3 13 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (17.33%) Customer Service
4 9 (12.00%) ITSM
5 8 (10.67%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (8.00%) Agile
7 6 (8.00%) Data Protection
7 6 (8.00%) Runbook
8 5 (6.67%) Asset Management
8 5 (6.67%) High Availability
8 5 (6.67%) IT Asset Management
8 5 (6.67%) Migration
8 5 (6.67%) Network Architecture
8 5 (6.67%) Patch Management
8 5 (6.67%) Server Management
8 5 (6.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.67%) Python
2 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (17.33%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (13.33%) CCNP
5 9 (12.00%) Degree
6 8 (10.67%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (9.33%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
8 3 (4.00%) CCNA
8 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.33%) CCDA
10 1 (1.33%) CCIP
10 1 (1.33%) CISA
10 1 (1.33%) CISM
10 1 (1.33%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.33%) NCSC
1 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 20 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.00%) Firmware
3 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (10.67%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.67%) WSUS
3 3 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.67%) Terraform
5 1 (1.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.33%) CASB
5 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (41.33%) Microsoft
2 29 (38.67%) Cisco
3 11 (14.67%) ServiceNow
4 9 (12.00%) Google
5 7 (9.33%) Red Hat
6 5 (6.67%) Red Box
6 5 (6.67%) VMware
7 3 (4.00%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.00%) McAfee
8 2 (2.67%) EMC
8 2 (2.67%) F5
8 2 (2.67%) Huawei
8 2 (2.67%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.33%) Arista
9 1 (1.33%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.33%) Meraki
9 1 (1.33%) Mitel
9 1 (1.33%) WatchGuard
9 1 (1.33%) Zscaler