Hybrid/Remote Metaswitch Contract Job Trends

Metaswitch
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of Metaswitch products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metaswitch over the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Metaswitch Networks.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metaswitch 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.015% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.033% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
UK median daily rate £359 - -

All Vendors
Work from Home

Metaswitch falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,096 4,479 5,558
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.51% 46.08% 43.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,856 2,771 3,464
10th Percentile £347 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £522
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.77% -0.52%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 153 116
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.20 £15.75
25th Percentile £22.63 £19.75 £21.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -15.00% -21.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.00 £79.38
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -13.28% -31.76%

Metaswitch
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metaswitch and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Metaswitch job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Metaswitch
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Metaswitch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Metaswitch

Metaswitch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) RTP
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (50.00%) INAP
2 1 (50.00%) RTCP
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Locust
1 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (50.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 1 (50.00%) Servlets
1 1 (50.00%) Taurus
1 1 (50.00%) WebRTC
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MOS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle