Microsoft Skype
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Skype skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Skype over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 675 836 789
Rank change year-on-year +161 -47 -500
Permanent jobs citing Skype 55 239 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.69% 1.57% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 46 166 205
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,721 £26,300
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,932 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.75% - -27.27%
75th Percentile £54,109 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,375 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year +39.73% -1.35% -32.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Skype is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,005 15,255 16,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 12.42% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,279 10,353 11,511
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

Skype
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Skype as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Skype in the UK

Skype
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Skype.

Salary trend for Skype in the UK

Skype
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Skype over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Skype in the UK

Skype
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Skype within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +160 53 £51,000 +27.50% 30
UK excluding London +125 46 £51,000 +39.73% 19
Work from Home +183 26 £52,500 +22.09% 13
South West +81 15 £54,000 +74.58% 5
North of England +96 14 £36,000 +10.77% 5
Yorkshire +86 12 £36,000 -
South East +104 9 £43,000 +26.47% 2
London +214 8 £54,500 +26.74% 15
Midlands +120 3 £52,500 +42.86% 3
East of England +98 3 £31,250 -43.18% 1
East Midlands +51 2 £52,500 +67.16%
Scotland +37 2 £60,000 +118.18%
West Midlands +117 1 £24,000 -41.82% 3
North West +89 1 £70,000 +102.90% 4
North East +43 1 £31,500 - 1

Skype
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (34.55%) SharePoint
1 19 (34.55%) Skype for Business
2 7 (12.73%) MS Exchange
3 3 (5.45%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (3.64%) nginx
5 1 (1.82%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.82%) IIS
5 1 (1.82%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 21 (38.18%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (9.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (3.64%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 37 (67.27%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (29.09%) Azure
3 8 (14.55%) AWS
4 3 (5.45%) Mimecast
5 2 (3.64%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (29.09%) SAN
2 12 (21.82%) NAS
3 9 (16.36%) Firewall
4 8 (14.55%) Wireless
5 7 (12.73%) VoIP
6 6 (10.91%) VPN
7 5 (9.09%) 5G
7 5 (9.09%) Broadband
8 4 (7.27%) BGP
8 4 (7.27%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (7.27%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (7.27%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (7.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (7.27%) Cisco Wireless
8 4 (7.27%) DHCP
8 4 (7.27%) EIGRP
8 4 (7.27%) NX-OS
8 4 (7.27%) OSPF
8 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
9 3 (5.45%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
General
1 22 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.27%) Finance
3 13 (23.64%) Military
4 8 (14.55%) Legal
5 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
6 5 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Law
8 2 (3.64%) Back Office
8 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.82%) Billing
9 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Electronics
9 1 (1.82%) German Language
9 1 (1.82%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Senior
2 13 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (21.82%) Wintel Engineer
4 11 (20.00%) Analyst
4 11 (20.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 9 (16.36%) Support Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (7.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) IT Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) IT Support
7 4 (7.27%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Network Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Architect
8 3 (5.45%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Clustering
1 12 (21.82%) Fat Client
1 12 (21.82%) PKI
1 12 (21.82%) Thin Client
2 2 (3.64%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.82%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.82%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (72.73%) Windows
2 28 (50.91%) Windows Server
3 19 (34.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (27.27%) Linux
6 5 (9.09%) Android
6 5 (9.09%) Mac OS X
6 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (5.45%) Apple iOS
7 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (5.45%) Windows 10
7 3 (5.45%) Windows 7
8 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (27.27%) ITIL
3 14 (25.45%) Incident Management
4 13 (23.64%) Change Management
4 13 (23.64%) Database Mirroring
5 12 (21.82%) Key Management
6 11 (20.00%) Patch Management
7 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.36%) Customer Service
9 8 (14.55%) High Availability
10 7 (12.73%) Availability Management
10 7 (12.73%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 6 (10.91%) ITSM
12 5 (9.09%) Accounts Payable
12 5 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
12 5 (9.09%) Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (9.09%) Service Management
13 4 (7.27%) Collaborative Culture
13 4 (7.27%) Network Monitoring
13 4 (7.27%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (45.45%) SQL
2 24 (43.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 11 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) CCNA
4 4 (7.27%) CCNP
4 4 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.64%) MCP
5 2 (3.64%) MCSA
5 2 (3.64%) MCSE
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.82%) Degree
6 1 (1.82%) Dell Certification
6 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 38 (69.09%) Active Directory
2 33 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (50.91%) Hyper-V
4 20 (36.36%) vSphere
5 12 (21.82%) VMware NSX
6 4 (7.27%) XenApp
7 3 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (49.09%) SCCM
2 12 (21.82%) Failover Clustering
2 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Clustering
2 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 10 (18.18%) SCOM
4 7 (12.73%) SCVMM
5 5 (9.09%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (7.27%) Nessus
7 2 (3.64%) AirWatch
7 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.82%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (1.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 33 (60.00%) VMware
3 16 (29.09%) Citrix
4 8 (14.55%) Oracle
5 7 (12.73%) Cisco
5 7 (12.73%) Commvault
5 7 (12.73%) Kaseya
5 7 (12.73%) Veeam
6 5 (9.09%) Apple
6 5 (9.09%) SolarWinds
6 5 (9.09%) Virgin Media
7 4 (7.27%) Aruba
7 4 (7.27%) CheckPoint
7 4 (7.27%) IronPort
7 4 (7.27%) Palo Alto
7 4 (7.27%) Zerto
8 3 (5.45%) NetApp
9 2 (3.64%) arcserve
9 2 (3.64%) iManage
9 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow