Skype Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Skype
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Skype skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 257 225
Rank change year-on-year +34 -32 +111
Permanent jobs citing Skype 11 14 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.20% 0.15% 0.056%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.33% 1.30% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £29,450
25th Percentile - £31,250 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £32,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -38.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £33,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% +36.11% -15.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 825 1,073 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.90% 11.75% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 503 458 818
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +4.05% -8.95%
75th Percentile £53,594 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,050 £73,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -

Skype
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Skype job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Skype
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Skype.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Skype

Skype
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Skype within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
East Midlands - 9 - - 1
West Midlands +42 2 - - 1
Skype
England

Skype
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 11 (100.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) Azure Sentinel
2 9 (81.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) SAN
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) DTS
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (81.82%) Manufacturing
1 9 (81.82%) Retail
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure Support
2 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 9 (81.82%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) CMDB
1 9 (81.82%) Onboarding
1 9 (81.82%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (81.82%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (81.82%) Customer Service
2 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure Management
2 9 (81.82%) Problem Management
2 9 (81.82%) Root Cause Analysis
2 9 (81.82%) Server Management
3 2 (18.18%) AI
3 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Project Management
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) Tech Ops
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 11 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (81.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Nagios
1 9 (81.82%) ZABBIX
2 2 (18.18%) SCCM
2 2 (18.18%) SCOM
2 2 (18.18%) SCOrch
2 2 (18.18%) SCSM
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (81.82%) BMC
2 9 (81.82%) Citrix
2 9 (81.82%) Darktrace
2 9 (81.82%) Google
2 9 (81.82%) Proofpoint
2 9 (81.82%) Red Hat
2 9 (81.82%) SolarWinds
2 9 (81.82%) Tanium
2 9 (81.82%) Trend Micro