Unified Communications Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Unified Communications
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 129 74 110
Rank change year-on-year -55 +36 +28
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.20% 0.42% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.63% 2.31% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £309 - -
25th Percentile £312 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £314 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -42.91% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £354 - £419
90th Percentile £412 - -
England median daily rate £425 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -22.73% +12.82% +8.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 245 173 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.19% 18.23% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 99 164
10th Percentile £203 £160 £213
25th Percentile £313 £220 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £379 £414
Median % change year-on-year +18.73% -8.40% -2.65%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £550
90th Percentile £686 £700 £630
England median daily rate £488 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile - £11.92 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.16 £13.07
Median hourly rate £15.50 £27.25 £17.35
Median % change year-on-year -43.12% +57.08% +63.19%
75th Percentile £34.13 £41.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £45.15 - £23.43
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% -30.00% +143.90%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Unified Communications job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Unified Communications in Yorkshire

Unified Communications
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire - 4 £314 - 1
Unified Communications
England

Unified Communications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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