IP Telephony Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IP Telephony
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring IP Telephony skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IP Telephony 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 301 339 454
Rank change year-on-year +38 +115 +165
Contract jobs citing IP Telephony 3 6 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.039% 0.089%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.37% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 17
10th Percentile - £472 £390
25th Percentile £525 £485 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% +143.90%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £743
90th Percentile - £583 £963
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +103.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.13
25th Percentile - - £16.33
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

IP Telephony 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

IP Telephony
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IP Telephony as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IP Telephony trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IP Telephony
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IP Telephony.

IP Telephony daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IP Telephony
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IP Telephony.

IP Telephony hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IP Telephony
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
1 1 (33.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) Softphone
3 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) OfficeScan
1 1 (33.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Altiris
1 1 (33.33%) Aruba
1 1 (33.33%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Mitel
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 1 (33.33%) Symantec
1 1 (33.33%) VMware