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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 435 414
Rank change year-on-year -143 -21 +16
Contract jobs citing VoIP 104 106 148
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.33% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.04% 2.82% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 73 79
10th Percentile £300 £204 £219
25th Percentile £311 £263 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 £375 £473
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -20.72% +14.32%
75th Percentile £446 £500 £638
90th Percentile £500 £550 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £403
% change year-on-year - -0.62% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile £17.82 £33.90 £21.91
25th Percentile £24.36 £61.75 £45.84
Median hourly rate £28.00 £63.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.91% -12.41% +208.51%
75th Percentile £39.25 £65.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £59.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £15.33 £73.75
% change year-on-year +82.65% -79.21% +213.83%

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 5,099 3,757 4,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.34% 11.57% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,952 2,332 2,627
10th Percentile £235 £225 £227
25th Percentile £395 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +4.86% -9.40% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 199 235
10th Percentile £14.19 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.08 £22.93
Median hourly rate £33.64 £42.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% -17.48% -8.83%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.74 £73.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -23.53% -25.89% -0.26%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -124 95 £375 - 128
UK excluding London -112 69 £400 - 97
North of England -51 30 £500 +31.15% 19
London -72 28 £318 -14.77% 38
Yorkshire -21 24 £500 +42.86% 7
Work from Home -55 17 £371 +3.13% 96
South East -66 11 £400 -2.44% 23
East of England - 10 £367 - 21
West Midlands -50 9 £475 +22.58% 7
Midlands -53 9 £475 +35.71% 17
South West -52 8 £560 +72.15% 8
North West -56 4 £300 -27.27% 10
Scotland -32 2 - - 5
North East -35 2 £363 - 2
Northern Ireland -1 1 £104 - 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 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.96%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.27%) Azure
2 15 (14.42%) GCP
3 14 (13.46%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (10.58%) AWS
5 7 (6.73%) Google Workspace
6 5 (4.81%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.92%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.92%) GitHub
7 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.96%) IaaS
8 1 (0.96%) PaaS
8 1 (0.96%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (26.92%) Unified Communications
2 21 (20.19%) Firewall
3 20 (19.23%) LAN
4 17 (16.35%) DHCP
5 16 (15.38%) WAN
6 15 (14.42%) DNS
6 15 (14.42%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (13.46%) VLAN
8 12 (11.54%) Cisco Nexus
9 11 (10.58%) PSTN
9 11 (10.58%) VPN
10 10 (9.62%) Network Security
11 9 (8.65%) TCP/IP
12 8 (7.69%) BGP
12 8 (7.69%) IPsec
12 8 (7.69%) OSPF
12 8 (7.69%) RTP
12 8 (7.69%) Wireless
13 7 (6.73%) IP Telephony
13 7 (6.73%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.85%) JIRA
2 2 (1.92%) GitLab
2 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.92%) JMeter
2 2 (1.92%) Locust
2 2 (1.92%) Robot Framework
2 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.92%) TestCafe
3 1 (0.96%) Git
3 1 (0.96%) Newman
General
1 39 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 31 (29.81%) Telecoms
3 15 (14.42%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.62%) Military
6 9 (8.65%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.77%) Legal
7 6 (5.77%) Police
8 4 (3.85%) Finance
8 4 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Front Office
10 1 (0.96%) Electronics
10 1 (0.96%) Law
10 1 (0.96%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (17.31%) Architect
1 18 (17.31%) Solutions Architect
2 17 (16.35%) Analyst
3 16 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 14 (13.46%) Senior
5 11 (10.58%) Sales Manager
5 11 (10.58%) Telecoms Manager
6 10 (9.62%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Telephony Analyst
8 7 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) IT Support
8 7 (6.73%) Service Analyst
8 7 (6.73%) Service Desk Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Audio Visual Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) IT Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) IT Support Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Support Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Telephony Support
9 5 (4.81%) Unified Communications Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.77%) Servlets
2 5 (4.81%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (2.88%) WebRTC
4 2 (1.92%) ODBC
4 2 (1.92%) Taurus
5 1 (0.96%) LDAP
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.96%) Terraform
5 1 (0.96%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Driving Licence
2 11 (10.58%) PKI
3 10 (9.62%) Data Centre
4 9 (8.65%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (8.65%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (6.73%) Smartphone
5 7 (6.73%) Virtual Team
6 6 (5.77%) Handset
6 6 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.88%) Clustering
7 3 (2.88%) Fat Client
7 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.88%) Smartcard
7 3 (2.88%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.92%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.92%) Media Streaming
8 2 (1.92%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (29.81%) Windows
2 13 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 11 (10.58%) Linux
4 10 (9.62%) Android
5 8 (7.69%) Apple iOS
6 7 (6.73%) Mac OS
6 7 (6.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.88%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.92%) CentOS
9 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (15.38%) ITIL
4 12 (11.54%) Business Development
4 12 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
4 12 (11.54%) Customer Service
4 12 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (9.62%) Data Protection
6 9 (8.65%) Migration
7 8 (7.69%) Agile
7 8 (7.69%) Mentoring
7 8 (7.69%) Validation
8 7 (6.73%) DevOps
8 7 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (6.73%) Network Design
9 6 (5.77%) AI
9 6 (5.77%) Patch Management
9 6 (5.77%) Runbook
9 6 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (4.81%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.77%) Java
2 3 (2.88%) Python
3 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.92%) SQL
3 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.96%) C
4 1 (0.96%) C++
Qualifications
1 31 (29.81%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 18 (17.31%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (13.46%) CCNP
5 10 (9.62%) Degree
6 9 (8.65%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.88%) CCNA
9 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.88%) MOS
10 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.96%) CISA
11 1 (0.96%) CISM
11 1 (0.96%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.92%) SLA
3 1 (0.96%) Def Stans
System Software
1 12 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.85%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Firmware
2 4 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.88%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (11.54%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (4.81%) WSUS
3 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.88%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (2.88%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 53 (50.96%) Cisco
2 28 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.62%) Google
4 7 (6.73%) CheckPoint
4 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.73%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.77%) Metaswitch
6 5 (4.81%) Fortinet
6 5 (4.81%) Oracle
6 5 (4.81%) Red Box
6 5 (4.81%) VMware
7 4 (3.85%) Mitel
8 3 (2.88%) Aruba
8 3 (2.88%) McAfee
9 2 (1.92%) Citrix
9 2 (1.92%) Dialogic
9 2 (1.92%) F5
9 2 (1.92%) Huawei
9 2 (1.92%) Nexthink
10 1 (0.96%) Avaya