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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 442 392
Rank change year-on-year -142 -50 +81
Contract jobs citing VoIP 77 113 183
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.34% 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.55% 2.83% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 76 102
10th Percentile £176 £203 £193
25th Percentile £263 £250 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £374 £464
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -19.45% +9.18%
75th Percentile £500 £504 £638
90th Percentile £564 £550 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £394 £350 £403
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.04% -10.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 12
10th Percentile - £33.90 £24.26
25th Percentile £28.00 £61.75 £25.00
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 £72.81
90th Percentile £72.55 - £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.50 £15.33 £25.77
% change year-on-year +222.90% -40.50% -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 4,970 3,995 4,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.41% 12.12% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,989 2,446 2,987
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £374 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £607
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.05% -5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 194 348
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £17.95
Median hourly rate £26.44 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.76% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.70 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £44.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -39.41% -12.00% -12.14%

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 27 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 27 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Top 16 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 27 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 -137 70 £375 -3.23% 94
UK excluding London -119 53 £394 +12.50% 85
North of England -58 26 £488 +39.29% 24
Yorkshire -25 23 £500 +42.86% 5
London -68 22 £325 -13.33% 19
Work from Home -49 15 £350 -2.78% 21
South West -58 9 £560 +89.66% 8
South East -76 9 £420 +2.44% 28
Scotland -3 4 £178 -19.32% 1
West Midlands -59 3 £500 +25.00% 6
Midlands -61 3 £500 +42.86% 13
East of England -19 2 £388 +1.64% 7
North East -40 2 £249 - 3
Northern Ireland -4 1 £104 - 1
Wales -16 1 £150 -53.85% 4
North West -54 1 - - 16

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 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.30%) CMS
2 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.68%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (18.18%) Azure
3 9 (11.69%) GCP
4 7 (9.09%) Google Workspace
5 6 (7.79%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.49%) AWS
7 4 (5.19%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.60%) IaaS
8 2 (2.60%) PaaS
8 2 (2.60%) SaaS
9 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.78%) DHCP
1 16 (20.78%) Firewall
2 15 (19.48%) DNS
3 13 (16.88%) LAN
4 12 (15.58%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 11 (14.29%) VLAN
5 11 (14.29%) VPN
6 10 (12.99%) TCP/IP
6 10 (12.99%) WAN
7 9 (11.69%) Unified Communications
7 9 (11.69%) Wireless
8 7 (9.09%) BGP
8 7 (9.09%) Network Security
8 7 (9.09%) OSPF
9 6 (7.79%) IPsec
9 6 (7.79%) PSTN
9 6 (7.79%) WLAN
10 5 (6.49%) MPLS
10 5 (6.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 13 (16.88%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.69%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (11.69%) Military
5 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.49%) Police
7 4 (5.19%) Finance
7 4 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Front Office
8 2 (2.60%) Legal
9 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (15.58%) Analyst
1 12 (15.58%) Network Engineer
1 12 (15.58%) Senior
2 11 (14.29%) Sales Manager
2 11 (14.29%) Telecoms Manager
3 7 (9.09%) Architect
3 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
3 7 (9.09%) Service Analyst
3 7 (9.09%) Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (7.79%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.49%) Audio Visual Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) Unified Communications Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) IT Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) IT Support
6 4 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Deployment Specialist
7 3 (3.90%) Network Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Telephony Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.30%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.30%) ODBC
1 1 (1.30%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Data Centre
1 9 (11.69%) PKI
2 8 (10.39%) Driving Licence
3 7 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (7.79%) Smartphone
5 5 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (6.49%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.90%) Clustering
6 3 (3.90%) Fat Client
6 3 (3.90%) Handset
6 3 (3.90%) Smartcard
6 3 (3.90%) Thin Client
7 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.60%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.30%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (44.16%) Windows
2 14 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 9 (11.69%) Mac OS
4 8 (10.39%) Linux
5 7 (9.09%) Android
5 7 (9.09%) Apple iOS
6 6 (7.79%) Windows 10
7 5 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.30%) VMS
8 1 (1.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (48.05%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (16.88%) Business Development
2 13 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (16.88%) ITIL
3 12 (15.58%) Customer Service
4 9 (11.69%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (7.79%) Agile
6 6 (7.79%) Data Protection
6 6 (7.79%) ITSM
6 6 (7.79%) Migration
6 6 (7.79%) Network Management
6 6 (7.79%) Runbook
7 5 (6.49%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (6.49%) High Availability
7 5 (6.49%) Network Architecture
7 5 (6.49%) Network Design
7 5 (6.49%) Patch Management
7 5 (6.49%) Server Management
8 4 (5.19%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.60%) Python
2 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.30%) SQL
2 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 16 (20.78%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (16.88%) CCNP
5 8 (10.39%) Degree
6 7 (9.09%) DV Cleared
7 6 (7.79%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (3.90%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.90%) CCNA
8 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.60%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.30%) CCDA
10 1 (1.30%) CCDP
10 1 (1.30%) CCIP
10 1 (1.30%) CISA
10 1 (1.30%) CISM
10 1 (1.30%) CISSP
10 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.30%) NCSC
1 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 18 (23.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.79%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.90%) Firmware
3 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.30%) FreeRADIUS
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.49%) WSUS
3 3 (3.90%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.60%) Terraform
5 1 (1.30%) Ansible
5 1 (1.30%) CASB
5 1 (1.30%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (44.16%) Cisco
2 30 (38.96%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.39%) ServiceNow
4 7 (9.09%) Google
4 7 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 6 (7.79%) CheckPoint
6 5 (6.49%) Red Box
6 5 (6.49%) VMware
7 4 (5.19%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.90%) McAfee
9 2 (2.60%) Aruba
9 2 (2.60%) Citrix
9 2 (2.60%) EMC
9 2 (2.60%) F5
9 2 (2.60%) Huawei
9 2 (2.60%) Mitel
9 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.30%) Arista
10 1 (1.30%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (1.30%) Meraki