VoIP Job Trends in Manchester

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring VoIP 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 113 151 139
Rank change year-on-year +38 -12 +59
Permanent jobs citing VoIP 19 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.65% 0.19% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.25% 2.07% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 8
10th Percentile - £28,100 £32,100
25th Percentile £35,500 £29,750 £42,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £32,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% -27.78% +13.70%
75th Percentile £38,500 £33,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £44,650 £33,975 £106,500
North West median annual salary £37,000 £33,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year +10.45% - -4.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

VoIP 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 585 242 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.05% 9.07% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 142 140 236
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -12.62% +8.42%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £69,850
90th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £79,375
North West median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -32.22% -5.26% +5.56%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

VoIP job vacancy trend in Manchester

VoIP
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VoIP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VoIP

VoIP
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the Manchester 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
Bolton +16 1 £47,500 +69.64% 2
VoIP
North West

VoIP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) IaaS
2 4 (21.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) Telepresence
1 14 (73.68%) Unified Communications
1 14 (73.68%) WebEx
2 5 (26.32%) VLAN
3 4 (21.05%) DMZ
3 4 (21.05%) STUN
3 4 (21.05%) VPN
4 1 (5.26%) Firewall
4 1 (5.26%) LAN
4 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (73.68%) Finance
1 14 (73.68%) Telecoms
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Support Engineer
2 14 (73.68%) Voice Engineer
2 14 (73.68%) Voice Support Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Applications Support
4 4 (21.05%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
1 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
2 4 (21.05%) Debian
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (73.68%) AI
2 14 (73.68%) Network Management
2 14 (73.68%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (26.32%) High Availability
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Software Licensing
4 4 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.26%) Change Management
5 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.26%) Information Security
5 1 (5.26%) ITIL
5 1 (5.26%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (5.26%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CCNA
1 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.53%) CCIE
2 2 (10.53%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) MCSA
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (21.05%) ISO 9001
1 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Kamailio
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 14 (73.68%) Oracle
3 4 (21.05%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) Apple
4 1 (5.26%) Meraki
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Ubiquiti