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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 443 420
Rank change year-on-year -138 -23 +35
Contract jobs citing VoIP 97 111 150
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.91% 2.90% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 74 86
10th Percentile £300 £204 £213
25th Percentile £305 £263 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £374 £479
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -21.93% +19.69%
75th Percentile £438 £498 £669
90th Percentile £500 £550 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £350 £451
% change year-on-year +14.29% -22.44% +6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile - £33.90 £22.48
25th Percentile - £61.75 £25.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £63.50 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -55.91% -10.88% +203.19%
75th Percentile £50.50 £65.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £64.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £15.33 £72.50
% change year-on-year +82.65% -78.86% +208.51%

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 5,090 3,824 4,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.40% 11.68% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,998 2,347 2,711
10th Percentile £234 £235 £230
25th Percentile £397 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £466 £500
% change year-on-year +3.11% -6.90% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 200 276
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.11 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.00 £43.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.53% -15.69% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.84 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -39.20% -25.89% +1.52%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -101 88 £368 -1.54% 91
UK excluding London -113 61 £400 +14.29% 70
North of England -51 29 £500 +31.15% 14
London -72 28 £310 -16.78% 29
Yorkshire -18 23 £500 +42.86% 5
Work from Home -54 18 £375 +4.17% 20
South East -73 10 £400 +3.23% 26
South West -61 8 £560 +72.15% 5
East of England -12 7 £367 +54.53% 9
West Midlands -51 7 £500 +25.00% 8
Midlands -61 7 £500 +42.86% 13
North West -58 4 £300 -27.27% 6
North East -39 2 £363 - 3
Northern Ireland -3 1 £104 - 1
Scotland -35 1 - - 2

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 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.03%) CMS
2 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.53%) Azure
2 14 (14.43%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (11.34%) GCP
4 9 (9.28%) AWS
5 6 (6.19%) Google Workspace
6 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.06%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (2.06%) GitHub
7 2 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.03%) IaaS
8 1 (1.03%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.03%) PaaS
8 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (24.74%) Unified Communications
2 21 (21.65%) Firewall
3 19 (19.59%) LAN
4 17 (17.53%) DHCP
5 16 (16.49%) DNS
6 15 (15.46%) VLAN
7 14 (14.43%) WAN
8 13 (13.40%) Cisco Nexus
8 13 (13.40%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (12.37%) PSTN
10 10 (10.31%) Network Security
10 10 (10.31%) VPN
11 9 (9.28%) TCP/IP
11 9 (9.28%) Wireless
12 8 (8.25%) BGP
12 8 (8.25%) OSPF
13 7 (7.22%) IP Telephony
13 7 (7.22%) IPsec
13 7 (7.22%) RTP
13 7 (7.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) GitLab
2 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.06%) JMeter
2 2 (2.06%) Locust
2 2 (2.06%) Robot Framework
2 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.06%) TestCafe
3 1 (1.03%) Newman
General
1 38 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.87%) Telecoms
3 14 (14.43%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.28%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (8.25%) Military
7 6 (6.19%) Police
8 4 (4.12%) Finance
8 4 (4.12%) Legal
9 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Front Office
11 1 (1.03%) Electronics
11 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (19.59%) Architect
1 19 (19.59%) Solutions Architect
2 15 (15.46%) Analyst
2 15 (15.46%) Network Engineer
2 15 (15.46%) Senior
3 11 (11.34%) Sales Manager
3 11 (11.34%) Telecoms Manager
4 10 (10.31%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Telephony Analyst
6 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) IT Support
7 5 (5.15%) Audio Visual Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) IT Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Service Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Support Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Telephony Support
7 5 (5.15%) Unified Communications Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.12%) FreeSWITCH
1 4 (4.12%) Servlets
2 2 (2.06%) ODBC
2 2 (2.06%) Taurus
2 2 (2.06%) WebRTC
3 1 (1.03%) LDAP
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.03%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Driving Licence
2 11 (11.34%) PKI
3 10 (10.31%) Data Centre
3 10 (10.31%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (8.25%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.19%) Virtual Team
6 5 (5.15%) Handset
6 5 (5.15%) Smartphone
7 3 (3.09%) Clustering
7 3 (3.09%) Fat Client
7 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.09%) Smartcard
7 3 (3.09%) Thin Client
8 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.06%) Media Streaming
8 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.06%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (29.90%) Windows
2 14 (14.43%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.31%) Linux
4 7 (7.22%) Android
4 7 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.19%) Apple iOS
6 5 (5.15%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.09%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.06%) CentOS
9 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.11%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (12.37%) Business Development
3 12 (12.37%) ITIL
3 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 11 (11.34%) Data Protection
5 10 (10.31%) Migration
6 9 (9.28%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (8.25%) Customer Service
8 7 (7.22%) Agile
8 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (7.22%) Runbook
8 7 (7.22%) Validation
9 6 (6.19%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.19%) Network Architecture
9 6 (6.19%) Network Design
9 6 (6.19%) Patch Management
10 5 (5.15%) Customer Requirements
10 5 (5.15%) DevOps
10 5 (5.15%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.12%) Java
2 3 (3.09%) Python
3 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.06%) SQL
3 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (30.93%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.56%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (14.43%) CCNP
5 9 (9.28%) Degree
6 6 (6.19%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.19%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.09%) CCNA
8 3 (3.09%) MOS
9 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.03%) CISA
10 1 (1.03%) CISM
10 1 (1.03%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.03%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (13.40%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.15%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.12%) Firmware
4 3 (3.09%) Docker
4 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.06%) FreeRADIUS
5 2 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (12.37%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (5.15%) WSUS
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.09%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.06%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (53.61%) Cisco
2 27 (27.84%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.25%) Google
4 7 (7.22%) CheckPoint
4 7 (7.22%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.19%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.15%) Fortinet
6 5 (5.15%) Metaswitch
6 5 (5.15%) Red Box
6 5 (5.15%) VMware
7 3 (3.09%) F5
7 3 (3.09%) McAfee
7 3 (3.09%) Mitel
7 3 (3.09%) Oracle
8 2 (2.06%) Aruba
8 2 (2.06%) Citrix
8 2 (2.06%) Dialogic
8 2 (2.06%) Huawei
9 1 (1.03%) SonicWALL
9 1 (1.03%) WatchGuard