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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 377 412
Rank change year-on-year -108 +35 +119
Contract jobs citing VoIP 99 164 191
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.50% 3.84% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 102 126
10th Percentile £241 £223 £209
25th Percentile £290 £243 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £440
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -9.09% +3.53%
75th Percentile £544 £473 £627
90th Percentile £612 £566 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £350 £440
% change year-on-year +21.43% -20.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile £18.28 £41.10 £19.88
25th Percentile £22.71 - £23.44
Median hourly rate £32.03 £75.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.30% +130.77% +73.33%
75th Percentile £43.27 - £56.25
90th Percentile £48.86 - £91.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.03 £75.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -57.30% +87.50% +127.14%

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 3,957 4,269 5,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.71% 12.72% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,586 2,515 3,653
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £473 £473
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 139 332
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.90 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.36 £22.94
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -37.99% +61.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.31 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.25 £75.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £33.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year +25.93% -40.25% +46.73%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 -110 75 £495 +28.57% 134
UK excluding London -88 70 £425 +21.43% 125
London -32 21 £519 +14.07% 22
Work from Home -15 20 £450 +0.22% 49
North of England -49 15 £300 +22.45% 42
West Midlands -30 12 £350 -9.09% 8
Midlands -46 12 £350 -5.41% 11
South East -29 11 £500 +66.67% 33
Scotland +11 10 £445 +11.25% 2
North West -19 9 £425 +73.47% 20
South West -31 9 £500 +21.21% 15
East of England -18 7 £330 +34.69% 13
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
North East -6 3 £750 +127.27% 5
Yorkshire -58 3 £225 -6.25% 18
Wales -2 1 £165 -42.61% 8

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 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.03%) Skype for Business
3 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.16%) Azure
2 10 (10.10%) GCP
3 9 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.08%) Google Workspace
5 7 (7.07%) AWS
6 5 (5.05%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.05%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.01%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (1.01%) PaaS
8 1 (1.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (21.21%) LAN
2 17 (17.17%) Firewall
2 17 (17.17%) WAN
3 13 (13.13%) DNS
4 11 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (10.10%) DHCP
5 10 (10.10%) OSPF
6 9 (9.09%) BGP
7 8 (8.08%) Unified Communications
7 8 (8.08%) VLAN
8 7 (7.07%) TCP/IP
8 7 (7.07%) VPN
9 6 (6.06%) CTI
9 6 (6.06%) MPLS
9 6 (6.06%) Wireless
10 5 (5.05%) 5G
10 5 (5.05%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (5.05%) LTE
10 5 (5.05%) SD-WAN
11 4 (4.04%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.04%) Power BI
3 2 (2.02%) Tableau
4 1 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.05%) JIRA
2 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.01%) GitLab
2 1 (1.01%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.01%) JMeter
2 1 (1.01%) Locust
2 1 (1.01%) Newman
2 1 (1.01%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.01%) Selenium
2 1 (1.01%) TestCafe
General
1 25 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.21%) Telecoms
3 18 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.08%) Finance
6 7 (7.07%) Military
7 4 (4.04%) Retail
8 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Legal
9 1 (1.01%) Electronics
9 1 (1.01%) Law
9 1 (1.01%) Local Government
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.01%) Marketing
9 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (18.18%) Analyst
2 16 (16.16%) Network Engineer
3 13 (13.13%) Service Desk Analyst
4 12 (12.12%) Service Analyst
5 10 (10.10%) Senior
6 8 (8.08%) Developer
7 7 (7.07%) IT Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Lead
8 5 (5.05%) Consultant
8 5 (5.05%) Genesys Developer
8 5 (5.05%) IT Support
8 5 (5.05%) Support Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Telephony Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) ICT Support Technician
9 4 (4.04%) ICT Technician
9 4 (4.04%) IT Support Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (4.04%) Support Technician
9 4 (4.04%) Telecoms Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.04%) VML
2 3 (3.03%) XMPP
3 2 (2.02%) Node.js
3 2 (2.02%) REST
4 1 (1.01%) Express.js
4 1 (1.01%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (1.01%) JFC
4 1 (1.01%) Middleware
4 1 (1.01%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Smartphone
2 8 (8.08%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (7.07%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.06%) IVR
4 6 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.05%) Operational Technology
5 5 (5.05%) SCADA
6 4 (4.04%) iPhone
7 3 (3.03%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.03%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.02%) Handset
8 2 (2.02%) IoT
8 2 (2.02%) NHS
9 1 (1.01%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.01%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.01%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (33.33%) Windows
2 13 (13.13%) Android
3 11 (11.11%) Apple iOS
4 10 (10.10%) Mac OS
4 10 (10.10%) Windows Server
5 7 (7.07%) Linux
6 3 (3.03%) Unix
6 3 (3.03%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.01%) CentOS
7 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.32%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (24.24%) ITIL
3 18 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 15 (15.15%) Roadmaps
5 14 (14.14%) Migration
6 11 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 11 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 8 (8.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (7.07%) Configuration Management
8 7 (7.07%) Load Balancing
8 7 (7.07%) Use Case
9 6 (6.06%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (6.06%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (5.05%) Agile
10 5 (5.05%) DevOps
10 5 (5.05%) Fault Analysis
10 5 (5.05%) IT Strategy
10 5 (5.05%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (5.05%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (5.05%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.08%) Python
2 6 (6.06%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.06%) SQL
3 2 (2.02%) R
4 1 (1.01%) Bash
4 1 (1.01%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (20.20%) Degree
1 20 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.17%) CCNP
2 17 (17.17%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.09%) CCIE
6 8 (8.08%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (6.06%) DV Cleared
8 5 (5.05%) Master's Degree
9 4 (4.04%) CCIE Collaboration
9 4 (4.04%) CCNA
9 4 (4.04%) DBS Check
9 4 (4.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.02%) ISTQB
11 2 (2.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (1.01%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.05%) SLA
2 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.01%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.01%) GDPR
3 1 (1.01%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.01%) NCSC
3 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (20.20%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.05%) XenApp
4 2 (2.02%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.01%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (5.05%) AirWatch
2 5 (5.05%) Ansible
3 3 (3.03%) SCCM
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.02%) SCOM
4 2 (2.02%) Terraform
5 1 (1.01%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (1.01%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.01%) Nagios
5 1 (1.01%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.01%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.01%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (38.38%) Cisco
2 29 (29.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.09%) Citrix
4 8 (8.08%) Avaya
4 8 (8.08%) Google
4 8 (8.08%) VMware
5 7 (7.07%) Genesys
6 6 (6.06%) F5
7 5 (5.05%) Aruba
8 4 (4.04%) BT
8 4 (4.04%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.04%) Juniper
8 4 (4.04%) Meraki
9 3 (3.03%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.02%) CenturyLink
10 2 (2.02%) Dell
10 2 (2.02%) HP
10 2 (2.02%) Nokia
10 2 (2.02%) Ribbon
10 2 (2.02%) Verint