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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 390 374
Rank change year-on-year -154 -16 +146
Contract jobs citing VoIP 75 130 218
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.44% 0.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.69% 3.36% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 91 123
10th Percentile £176 £223 £190
25th Percentile £203 £243 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £413 £488
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -15.38% +13.37%
75th Percentile £549 £488 £613
90th Percentile £625 £575 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £295 £400 £475
% change year-on-year -26.25% -15.79% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £47.42 £35.45 £23.35
25th Percentile £51.27 £60.88 £24.81
Median hourly rate £59.86 £75.00 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +195.48% +12.16%
75th Percentile £66.77 - £26.15
90th Percentile £69.61 - £83.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.86 £75.00 £25.77
% change year-on-year -20.19% +191.09% +35.61%

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 4,427 3,871 5,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.10% 13.20% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,372 3,559
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £375 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 143 394
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.38 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.52 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% - +84.21%
75th Percentile £66.31 £63.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +29.05% -29.16% +148.00%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -162 62 £475 +13.37% 88
UK excluding London -117 49 £295 -26.25% 87
London -76 21 £553 +22.89% 12
Work from Home -28 17 £553 +15.81% 24
South East -53 12 £513 +7.50% 32
North of England -72 12 £225 -8.16% 18
East of England -18 8 £320 +29.29% 11
Scotland +11 6 £178 -55.63% 7
Yorkshire -59 6 £225 -4.56% 8
South West -52 5 £538 +30.30% 7
West Midlands -65 4 £371 -15.20% 8
Midlands -67 4 £371 -15.20% 10
North East -15 3 £750 +127.27% 3
North West -28 3 £300 +20.00% 8
Wales -9 2 £158 -45.22% 3

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 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (17.33%) GCP
3 12 (16.00%) Google Workspace
4 10 (13.33%) Azure
5 7 (9.33%) Entra ID
6 6 (8.00%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.67%) AWS
7 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.33%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (1.33%) IaaS
8 1 (1.33%) PaaS
8 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (20.00%) DNS
1 15 (20.00%) WAN
2 14 (18.67%) DHCP
3 13 (17.33%) LAN
3 13 (17.33%) VPN
4 12 (16.00%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (13.33%) TCP/IP
6 9 (12.00%) Firewall
7 7 (9.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (9.33%) OSPF
8 6 (8.00%) BGP
8 6 (8.00%) CTI
8 6 (8.00%) VLAN
9 5 (6.67%) LTE
9 5 (6.67%) PSTN
10 4 (5.33%) EIGRP
10 4 (5.33%) H.323
10 4 (5.33%) ISDN
10 4 (5.33%) MPLS
10 4 (5.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.67%) Power BI
2 2 (2.67%) Tableau
3 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) GitLab
1 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.33%) JMeter
1 1 (1.33%) Locust
1 1 (1.33%) Newman
1 1 (1.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (1.33%) Selenium
1 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (1.33%) TestCafe
General
1 29 (38.67%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.67%) Telecoms
3 12 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 9 (12.00%) Military
5 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.67%) Finance
7 4 (5.33%) Retail
8 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.33%) Law
9 1 (1.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) Analyst
2 13 (17.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 12 (16.00%) Service Analyst
4 10 (13.33%) IT Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Support Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) IT Support
6 8 (10.67%) IT Support Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Network Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Genesys Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Lead
10 3 (4.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
10 3 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Administrator
10 3 (4.00%) Commissioning Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Deployment Specialist
10 3 (4.00%) Project Manager
10 3 (4.00%) Telecoms Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) VML
2 3 (4.00%) XMPP
3 1 (1.33%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.33%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (1.33%) Node.js
3 1 (1.33%) REST
3 1 (1.33%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Smartphone
2 7 (9.33%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.00%) IVR
4 5 (6.67%) iPhone
4 5 (6.67%) Operational Technology
4 5 (6.67%) SCADA
5 3 (4.00%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.67%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.67%) IoT
6 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.33%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.33%) Handset
7 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (48.00%) Windows
2 16 (21.33%) Mac OS
3 14 (18.67%) Android
3 14 (18.67%) Windows Server
4 11 (14.67%) Apple iOS
5 7 (9.33%) Windows 10
6 4 (5.33%) Linux
7 1 (1.33%) CentOS
7 1 (1.33%) VMS
7 1 (1.33%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.33%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (34.67%) ITIL
3 21 (28.00%) Customer Service
4 14 (18.67%) Collaborative Working
5 13 (17.33%) Migration
6 8 (10.67%) ITSM
6 8 (10.67%) Roadmaps
6 8 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (8.00%) Computer Science
7 6 (8.00%) Configuration Management
7 6 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (6.67%) Load Balancing
8 5 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (6.67%) Use Case
8 5 (6.67%) Value Proposition
9 4 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (5.33%) Network Management
10 3 (4.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (8.00%) Python
2 5 (6.67%) SQL
3 2 (2.67%) R
4 1 (1.33%) Bash
4 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.67%) ITIL Certification
4 10 (13.33%) Degree
5 9 (12.00%) CCNP
5 9 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (9.33%) CCIE
7 6 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (6.67%) Master's Degree
9 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
9 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.67%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.33%) CCDA
11 1 (1.33%) CCDP
11 1 (1.33%) CCIP
11 1 (1.33%) CCNA
11 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.67%) NCSC
2 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 19 (25.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.33%) Firmware
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (8.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.67%) Ansible
3 2 (2.67%) SCCM
3 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.67%) Terraform
4 1 (1.33%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.33%) CASB
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco UCCE
4 1 (1.33%) Nagios
4 1 (1.33%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (1.33%) SCOM
4 1 (1.33%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (1.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 18 (24.00%) Cisco
3 12 (16.00%) Google
4 8 (10.67%) Genesys
4 8 (10.67%) ServiceNow
5 6 (8.00%) Aruba
5 6 (8.00%) F5
6 5 (6.67%) CheckPoint
6 5 (6.67%) Meraki
7 3 (4.00%) VMware
8 2 (2.67%) Avaya
8 2 (2.67%) BT
8 2 (2.67%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.67%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.67%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.67%) Verint
9 1 (1.33%) Draytek
9 1 (1.33%) SonicWALL
9 1 (1.33%) Splunk
9 1 (1.33%) WatchGuard