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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 400 383
Rank change year-on-year -107 -17 +131
Contract jobs citing VoIP 84 140 228
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.45% 0.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.06% 3.43% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 89 138
10th Percentile £185 £223 £201
25th Percentile £288 £243 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £484
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -17.31% +13.82%
75th Percentile £553 £480 £625
90th Percentile £622 £570 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £355 £450
% change year-on-year +19.72% -21.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £35.45 £16.84
25th Percentile £44.86 £60.88 £20.06
Median hourly rate £48.72 £75.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.04% +212.50% +35.44%
75th Percentile £52.58 - £41.25
90th Percentile - - £91.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £75.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -35.04% +219.15% +36.23%

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 4,070 4,077 6,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.50% 12.97% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,683 2,369 3,706
10th Percentile £204 £213 £206
25th Percentile £356 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.47% -4.32%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £467 £475
% change year-on-year -3.54% -1.79% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 137 398
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £15.76
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -35.00% +146.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £30.04 £55.70
% change year-on-year +34.95% -46.07% +185.64%

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 31 January 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
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 31 January 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 -121 67 £500 +25.39% 108
UK excluding London -103 58 £425 +19.72% 101
London -45 22 £519 +9.26% 11
Work from Home -9 16 £550 +15.79% 38
North of England -60 12 £263 +8.25% 21
Scotland +13 11 £425 +6.25% 4
South East -39 11 £500 +100.00% 34
South West -48 9 £500 +21.21% 10
East of England -10 8 £320 +30.61% 10
North West -27 5 £425 +73.47% 11
West Midlands -52 5 £425 +10.39% 9
Midlands -55 5 £425 +14.86% 20
Yorkshire -55 5 £225 -4.56% 8
Wales -2 2 £158 -45.22% 3
North East -17 2 £750 +127.27% 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 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.57%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (1.19%) IIS
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.29%) GCP
1 12 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (13.10%) Azure
3 10 (11.90%) Google Workspace
4 5 (5.95%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.76%) AWS
6 3 (3.57%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.19%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.19%) PaaS
7 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.86%) DNS
2 14 (16.67%) LAN
2 14 (16.67%) WAN
3 13 (15.48%) DHCP
4 12 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (13.10%) Firewall
6 10 (11.90%) VPN
7 9 (10.71%) TCP/IP
8 8 (9.52%) Unified Communications
8 8 (9.52%) VLAN
9 7 (8.33%) OSPF
10 6 (7.14%) BGP
10 6 (7.14%) CTI
11 5 (5.95%) 5G
11 5 (5.95%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (5.95%) LTE
12 4 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (4.76%) EIGRP
12 4 (4.76%) H.323
12 4 (4.76%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.57%) Power BI
3 2 (2.38%) Tableau
4 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.19%) GitLab
2 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.19%) JMeter
2 1 (1.19%) Locust
2 1 (1.19%) Newman
2 1 (1.19%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.19%) Selenium
2 1 (1.19%) TestCafe
General
1 24 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.62%) Telecoms
3 17 (20.24%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.52%) Finance
5 8 (9.52%) Military
6 4 (4.76%) Retail
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Electronics
7 1 (1.19%) Law
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (19.05%) Analyst
2 12 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 11 (13.10%) Service Analyst
4 9 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Developer
5 8 (9.52%) IT Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Support Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) IT Support
7 6 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Telephony Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Genesys Developer
8 5 (5.95%) Lead
8 5 (5.95%) Senior
9 4 (4.76%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support
10 3 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Cisco Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Commissioning Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.57%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) VML
1 4 (4.76%) XMPP
2 2 (2.38%) Node.js
2 2 (2.38%) REST
3 1 (1.19%) Express.js
3 1 (1.19%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (1.19%) JFC
3 1 (1.19%) Middleware
3 1 (1.19%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Smartphone
2 6 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.14%) IVR
3 5 (5.95%) iPhone
3 5 (5.95%) Operational Technology
3 5 (5.95%) SCADA
3 5 (5.95%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (3.57%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.38%) IoT
5 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.19%) IBM XIV
6 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.19%) NHS
6 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (39.29%) Windows
2 14 (16.67%) Android
2 14 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 12 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 11 (13.10%) Windows Server
5 7 (8.33%) Linux
6 4 (4.76%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.57%) Unix
8 1 (1.19%) CentOS
8 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.19%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.90%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (30.95%) ITIL
3 19 (22.62%) Customer Service
4 15 (17.86%) Migration
5 13 (15.48%) Collaborative Working
6 9 (10.71%) Computer Science
6 9 (10.71%) Roadmaps
7 8 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (7.14%) Change Management
8 6 (7.14%) ITSM
8 6 (7.14%) Use Case
9 5 (5.95%) Configuration Management
9 5 (5.95%) Knowledge Transfer
9 5 (5.95%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (5.95%) Value Proposition
10 4 (4.76%) Agile
10 4 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (4.76%) Load Balancing
10 4 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 6 (7.14%) SQL
2 5 (5.95%) Python
3 2 (2.38%) R
4 1 (1.19%) Bash
4 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.67%) Degree
4 13 (15.48%) CCNP
4 13 (15.48%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (11.90%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (10.71%) CCIE
6 9 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.95%) Master's Degree
8 4 (4.76%) CCIE Collaboration
8 4 (4.76%) DBS Check
8 4 (4.76%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.57%) CCNA
10 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
11 1 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.19%) PMP
11 1 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.38%) SLA
2 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.19%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.19%) GDPR
2 1 (1.19%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.19%) NCSC
2 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (20.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.71%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (3.57%) SCCM
3 2 (2.38%) Ansible
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.38%) SCOM
3 2 (2.38%) Terraform
4 1 (1.19%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco UCCE
4 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.19%) Nagios
4 1 (1.19%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.19%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (1.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (34.52%) Cisco
2 25 (29.76%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.90%) Google
4 8 (9.52%) Genesys
5 6 (7.14%) F5
5 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 6 (7.14%) VMware
6 5 (5.95%) Aruba
7 4 (4.76%) CheckPoint
7 4 (4.76%) Citrix
7 4 (4.76%) Meraki
8 3 (3.57%) Avaya
8 3 (3.57%) BT
9 2 (2.38%) Dell
9 2 (2.38%) HP
9 2 (2.38%) Nokia
9 2 (2.38%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.38%) Ribbon
9 2 (2.38%) Verint
10 1 (1.19%) Splunk