Unified Communications Job Trends in the South West

Unified Communications
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Unified Communications skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 155 253
Rank change year-on-year -39 +98 -9
Permanent jobs citing Unified Communications 15 5 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.19% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.80% 1.37% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 24
10th Percentile £52,386 £43,500 £29,213
25th Percentile £57,954 £52,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +50.00% -22.95%
75th Percentile £74,688 - £51,875
90th Percentile £75,000 - £57,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

Unified Communications 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 535 366 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.97% 13.57% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 324 265 921
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,375 £31,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -5.00%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unified Communications relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Unified Communications job vacancy trend in the South West

Unified Communications
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Unified Communications.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Unified Communications

Unified Communications
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unified Communications in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Unified Communications in the South West

Unified Communications
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unified Communications within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Gloucestershire -20 10 £52,500 +31.25%
Dorset - 4 £73,750 - 2
Somerset - 1 £54,498 -
Unified Communications
England

Unified Communications
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) Firewall
1 11 (73.33%) LAN
1 11 (73.33%) WAN
2 10 (66.67%) VLAN
2 10 (66.67%) WebEx
3 9 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (60.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 9 (60.00%) Banking
2 9 (60.00%) Marketing
2 9 (60.00%) Retail
2 9 (60.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (6.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Collaboration Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Lead
2 4 (26.67%) Product Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Voice Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Voice Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Telephony Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) FlexPod
1 10 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (66.67%) Onboarding
1 10 (66.67%) Video Conferencing
2 8 (53.33%) Replication
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (60.00%) Data Management
1 9 (60.00%) Performance Management
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (13.33%) Product Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) User Experience
5 2 (13.33%) User Stories
6 1 (6.67%) Application Security
6 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (6.67%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (46.67%) vSphere
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 6 (40.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Ansible
1 10 (66.67%) Cisco CUCM
1 10 (66.67%) Grafana
2 7 (46.67%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (66.67%) Cisco
2 10 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 10 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 10 (66.67%) Splunk
3 7 (46.67%) NetApp
3 7 (46.67%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle