Skype Job Trends in England

Microsoft Skype
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Skype skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 615 604
Rank change year-on-year +36 -11 +191
Permanent jobs citing Skype 33 65 56
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.063% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 0.98% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 22 52 42
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £50,000 £50,800
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% -1.57% +27.00%
75th Percentile £52,750 £55,063 £54,000
90th Percentile £53,700 £58,750 £71,914
UK median annual salary £38,500 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -23.00% -1.96% +27.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Skype falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,909 6,660 6,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.13% 13.38% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,517 3,534 5,350
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £28,286
25th Percentile £28,697 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

Skype
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Skype job vacancy trend in England

Skype
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Skype.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Skype

Skype
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Skype in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Skype in England

Skype
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Skype within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +50 15 £38,500 +10.00%
Midlands +32 9 - -
East Midlands +1 9 - -
East of England +11 7 £51,500 -10.43% 1
South West +16 2 - -
Skype
UK

Skype
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 30 (90.91%) Skype for Business
2 17 (51.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (39.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (39.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 9 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
2 9 (27.27%) GCP
3 3 (9.09%) Cohesity
4 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (42.42%) WebEx
2 13 (39.39%) Unified Communications
3 3 (9.09%) VSAN
4 1 (3.03%) DHCP
4 1 (3.03%) DNS
4 1 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) DTS
2 7 (21.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 13 (39.39%) Law
2 9 (27.27%) Manufacturing
2 9 (27.27%) Retail
3 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.03%) Advertising
5 1 (3.03%) Back Office
5 1 (3.03%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Analyst
2 14 (42.42%) Support Analyst
3 13 (39.39%) Support Assistant
4 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (30.30%) Support Engineer
5 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Support
5 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Junior
7 1 (3.03%) Junior Project Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Service Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (66.67%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (30.30%) Onboarding
3 9 (27.27%) CMDB
4 3 (9.09%) Blackberry
4 3 (9.09%) PKI
4 3 (9.09%) RSA SecurID
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 16 (48.48%) Windows Server
3 9 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (9.09%) Linux
4 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) ISMS
1 13 (39.39%) ITIL
1 13 (39.39%) Preventative Maintenance
2 10 (30.30%) Customer Service
2 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
3 9 (27.27%) Problem Management
3 9 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (27.27%) Server Management
4 1 (3.03%) Fault Analysis
4 1 (3.03%) Incident Management
4 1 (3.03%) ITSM
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office Automation
4 1 (3.03%) Office Automation
4 1 (3.03%) Operations Management
4 1 (3.03%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (3.03%) Project Delivery
4 1 (3.03%) Project Management
4 1 (3.03%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.03%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (39.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.06%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (48.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (27.27%) Virtual Desktop
2 9 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Nagios
1 9 (27.27%) ZABBIX
2 7 (21.21%) SCOM
2 7 (21.21%) WSUS
3 3 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Microsoft
2 13 (39.39%) Polycom
3 12 (36.36%) Red Hat
3 12 (36.36%) VMware
4 10 (30.30%) Citrix
5 9 (27.27%) BMC
5 9 (27.27%) Darktrace
5 9 (27.27%) Google
5 9 (27.27%) Proofpoint
5 9 (27.27%) SolarWinds
5 9 (27.27%) Tanium
5 9 (27.27%) Trend Micro
6 3 (9.09%) HP
7 1 (3.03%) Bloomberg
7 1 (3.03%) Remedy
7 1 (3.03%) Reuters
7 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.03%) Tradeweb