Skype Contracts in Wiltshire

Microsoft Skype
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire requiring Skype skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Skype over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 83 65
Rank change year-on-year +38 -18 -4
Contract jobs citing Skype 12 6 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.67% 0.64% 2.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.22% 2.88% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 24
10th Percentile £540 £505 £458
25th Percentile £563 £556 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% +15.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £647 £713 £641
90th Percentile £693 £719 £936
South West median daily rate £581 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -3.13% +14.29% +23.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wiltshire

Skype 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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 208 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 16.48% 22.03% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 168 153
10th Percentile £470 £448 £270
25th Percentile £528 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £538 £579
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% -7.12% +15.80%
75th Percentile £684 £675 £700
90th Percentile £725 £704 £750
South West median daily rate £548 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 15
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - £68.00 £62.13
Median hourly rate - £71.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.40% -5.14%
75th Percentile - £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £84.50
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%

Skype
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing Skype as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Skype in Wiltshire

Skype
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Skype in Wiltshire

Skype
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Skype in Wiltshire

Skype
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Skype within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Corsham +37 12 £588 -7.84% 1
Skype
South West

Skype
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 10 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (75.00%) Skype for Business
3 5 (41.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) DHCP
1 9 (75.00%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) Unified Communications
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (8.33%) BGP
4 1 (8.33%) Firewall
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) OSPF
4 1 (8.33%) SMTP
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) VLAN
4 1 (8.33%) VoIP
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Service Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
1 10 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Critical Thinking
3 5 (41.67%) Service Management
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) System Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Waterfall
5 3 (25.00%) Information Security
5 3 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 3 (25.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
6 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Security Hardening
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
7 1 (8.33%) Office Automation
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (66.67%) DV Cleared
4 6 (50.00%) Degree
5 3 (25.00%) MCSA
5 3 (25.00%) MCSE
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (8.33%) CCNP
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 6 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) WSUS
2 4 (33.33%) SCCM
3 2 (16.67%) OPNET
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (8.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Veeam
3 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
4 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco
5 1 (8.33%) Fujitsu
5 1 (8.33%) Remedy
5 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds