VoLTE Contracts

VoLTE (Voice Over LTE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VoLTE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VoLTE over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 589 707
Rank change year-on-year +96 +118 +66
Contract jobs citing VoLTE 26 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.025% 0.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.70% 0.19% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 4
10th Percentile - £250 £502
25th Percentile - £371 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -21.95% +3.69%
75th Percentile - £475 £536
90th Percentile - - £567
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% -1.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

VoLTE 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 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

VoLTE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VoLTE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VoLTE in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VoLTE.

Daily rate trend for VoLTE in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VoLTE.

Hourly rate trend for VoLTE in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VoLTE within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +60 8 £425 +6.25% 1
UK excluding London +51 5 £450 -5.26%
South East +40 5 £450 -5.26%
London +36 3 £400 - 1
Work from Home +49 1 £400 -15.79%

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) AWS
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (100.00%) 5G
2 23 (88.46%) 4G
2 23 (88.46%) Diameter Protocol
3 22 (84.62%) Wireshark
4 21 (80.77%) 3G
5 20 (76.92%) LTE
5 20 (76.92%) Radio Access Network
5 20 (76.92%) RANAP
6 6 (23.08%) VoWiFi
7 2 (7.69%) DNS
7 2 (7.69%) GGSN
7 2 (7.69%) SGSN
7 2 (7.69%) SIGTRAN
7 2 (7.69%) SMS
7 2 (7.69%) SS7
8 1 (3.85%) 2G
8 1 (3.85%) MPLS
8 1 (3.85%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 23 (88.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Billing
3 3 (11.54%) Multimedia
4 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Analyst
1 4 (15.38%) Senior
1 4 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
1 4 (15.38%) Senior Test Analyst
1 4 (15.38%) Test Analyst
2 2 (7.69%) Network Analyst
2 2 (7.69%) Senior Network Analyst
3 1 (3.85%) Architect
3 1 (3.85%) Core Network Architect
3 1 (3.85%) Migration Architect
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile Architect
3 1 (3.85%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Network Architecture
2 20 (76.92%) Customer Experience
2 20 (76.92%) Performance Improvement
3 19 (73.08%) Performance Analysis
4 18 (69.23%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.69%) Computer Science
6 2 (7.69%) CRM
6 2 (7.69%) Defect Management
6 2 (7.69%) Software Testing
6 2 (7.69%) Statistics
6 2 (7.69%) Validation
7 1 (3.85%) Data Integration
7 1 (3.85%) Migration
7 1 (3.85%) Network Design
7 1 (3.85%) Service Delivery
7 1 (3.85%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) CCNP
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 20 (76.92%) Empirix
1 20 (76.92%) NetScout