Unified Communications Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Unified Communications
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Unified Communications skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - 79
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.43% - 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.21% - 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £309 - -
25th Percentile £312 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £314 - £413
75th Percentile £354 - £419
90th Percentile £412 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £314 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -42.91% +33.33% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 95 79 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.27% 13.62% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 46 99
10th Percentile £213 £160 £275
25th Percentile £299 £243 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £418 £432
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -3.36% +0.76%
75th Percentile £530 £534 £575
90th Percentile £580 £738 £670
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £379 £414
% change year-on-year +18.73% -8.40% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £17.94 £12.75
25th Percentile £47.50 £26.40 £12.86
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.00 £15.28
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% +168.37% -62.96%
75th Percentile £52.50 £41.50 £17.85
90th Percentile - - £22.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £27.25 £17.35
% change year-on-year -43.12% +57.08% +63.19%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unified Communications relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Unified Communications job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Unified Communications.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Unified Communications

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unified Communications in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unified Communications in West Yorkshire

Unified Communications
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Leeds - 4 £314 - 1
Unified Communications
Yorkshire

Unified Communications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) PSTN
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft