Skype for Business Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Lync)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Skype for Business skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 174 144
Rank change year-on-year +22 -30 +73
Permanent jobs citing Skype for Business 7 10 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.17% 0.28% 0.082%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.32% 3.33% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 2
10th Percentile - £49,750 £30,513
25th Percentile £48,250 £51,250 £30,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £31,125
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +68.67% -43.41%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £31,781
90th Percentile £54,250 £59,000 £31,838
England median annual salary £38,500 £52,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -26.67% +50.00% -12.50%

All Application Platform Skills
East of England

Skype for Business falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 211 300 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.05% 8.51% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 179 177 178
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,500 £25,675
25th Percentile £30,188 £30,000 £30,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +8.97% -17.89%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £57,188
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £50,750 £57,001 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.97% +8.57% -4.55%

Skype for Business
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Skype for Business relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Skype for Business job vacancy trend in the East of England

Skype for Business
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Skype for Business.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Skype for Business

Skype for Business
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Skype for Business within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +7 7 £51,500 -1.90%
Skype for Business
England

Skype for Business
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Skype
2 3 (42.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Aerospace
3 1 (14.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Blackberry
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
1 3 (42.86%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) SCOM
1 7 (100.00%) WSUS
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) HP
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) VMware