Unified Communications Contracts in the West Midlands

Unified Communications
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Unified Communications skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unified Communications over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 104 125
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 +38
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 10 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.73% 0.37% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.62% 1.90% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 7
10th Percentile £389 £335 £365
25th Percentile £400 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £480 - £607
90th Percentile £550 - £750
England median daily rate £500 £470 £481
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.20% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £16.11 - -
25th Percentile £17.59 - -
Median hourly rate £20.13 - -
75th Percentile £22.59 - -
90th Percentile £24.04 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +163.16% - -54.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Unified Communications 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 151 368 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.02% 19.34% 15.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 216 220
10th Percentile £145 £200 £263
25th Percentile £256 £305 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £609
90th Percentile £692 £713 £700
England median daily rate £500 £495 £524
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.49% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 7
10th Percentile £13.78 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £13.50 £13.75
Median hourly rate £16.26 £19.95 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% +7.84% +8.82%
75th Percentile £24.22 £23.75 £21.80
90th Percentile £34.80 £28.75 £24.45
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -30.00% +116.22% -22.63%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Unified Communications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in the West Midlands

Unified Communications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unified Communications in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Unified Communications in the West Midlands

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unified Communications in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unified Communications in the West Midlands

Unified Communications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unified Communications in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Unified Communications in the West Midlands

Unified Communications
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unified Communications within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Birmingham +11 3 £550 +57.14% 4
Staffordshire - 3 £400 - 1
Warwickshire - 2 - -
Coventry - 2 £438 -
Unified Communications
England

Unified Communications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) LAN
1 4 (40.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (40.00%) VoIP
1 4 (40.00%) WAN
1 4 (40.00%) Wireless
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (20.00%) MPLS
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) Telepresence
2 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Legal
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Network Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Change Management
1 4 (40.00%) Network Design
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (30.00%) Information Security
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) PLM
2 3 (30.00%) Strategic Planning
2 3 (30.00%) System Testing
2 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 2 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) Information Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCIE
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 2 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Proofpoint
4 2 (20.00%) Aruba
4 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (20.00%) Meraki
4 2 (20.00%) Mitel