Voice Over IP (VoIP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VoIP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VoIP over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 444 471 589
Rank change year-on-year +27 +118 -100
Permanent jobs citing VoIP 458 501 926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.62% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.11% 3.86% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 363 413 696
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,900 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,445 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +18.42%
75th Percentile £50,125 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,500 £73,500 £80,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +2.50% +18.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11,133 12,974 22,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 16.08% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,152 7,381 12,357
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,083 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VoIP over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 -3 410 £35,000 -12.50% 74
UK excluding London +15 378 £32,500 -20.73% 75
Work from Home +32 134 £42,500 +6.25% 34
North of England +28 104 £32,500 -18.75% 32
South East -4 89 £31,500 -40.00% 16
London +7 76 £50,948 +35.86% 8
Midlands +13 74 £33,750 - 9
West Midlands +25 59 £35,000 +3.70% 6
North West 0 53 £32,500 -30.85% 15
East of England +5 44 £45,000 +57.89% 6
Yorkshire +55 30 £32,500 - 15
Scotland -34 26 £42,500 -10.05% 2
South West -35 25 £40,000 -20.00% 5
North East +2 21 £32,000 -1.54% 3
Wales +40 20 £35,000 -6.67% 4
East Midlands -22 15 £28,869 -10.48% 3

VoIP
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 64 (13.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (12.66%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.75%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.09%) CMS
5 3 (0.66%) IIS
6 2 (0.44%) Confluence
6 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 59 (12.88%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.44%) Trello
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Carpe Diem
2 2 (0.44%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.22%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 189 (41.27%) Microsoft 365
2 129 (28.17%) Azure
3 57 (12.45%) AWS
4 50 (10.92%) Entra ID
5 26 (5.68%) SaaS
6 18 (3.93%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.84%) Google Workspace
8 12 (2.62%) OneDrive
9 11 (2.40%) GCP
10 9 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.75%) WhatsApp
12 7 (1.53%) IaaS
13 6 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (1.31%) Mimecast
13 6 (1.31%) Twilio
14 5 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.09%) PaaS
15 4 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (0.87%) Rubrik
16 3 (0.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 151 (32.97%) Firewall
2 98 (21.40%) WAN
3 86 (18.78%) LAN
4 78 (17.03%) DNS
4 78 (17.03%) VPN
5 74 (16.16%) TCP/IP
6 55 (12.01%) Wireless
7 52 (11.35%) Wi-Fi
8 50 (10.92%) VLAN
9 44 (9.61%) DHCP
10 42 (9.17%) Internet
11 40 (8.73%) MPLS
12 33 (7.21%) SAN
13 29 (6.33%) SD-WAN
14 28 (6.11%) PBX
15 27 (5.90%) Unified Communications
16 26 (5.68%) Network Security
17 24 (5.24%) BGP
18 22 (4.80%) OSPF
19 18 (3.93%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.28%) Power BI
3 7 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.44%) MySQL
5 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.22%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.44%) JIRA
1 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.22%) Hudson
2 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
2 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 190 (41.48%) Social Skills
2 94 (20.52%) Telecoms
3 33 (7.21%) Finance
4 19 (4.15%) Retail
5 18 (3.93%) Law
6 15 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.40%) Legal
8 10 (2.18%) Marketing
9 8 (1.75%) Billing
10 6 (1.31%) Banking
11 5 (1.09%) Electronics
12 4 (0.87%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.66%) French Language
13 3 (0.66%) German Language
13 3 (0.66%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.66%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.66%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 90 (19.65%) Support Engineer
2 85 (18.56%) Analyst
3 79 (17.25%) IT Support
4 63 (13.76%) IT Engineer
4 63 (13.76%) Senior
5 48 (10.48%) IT Support Engineer
6 46 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 39 (8.52%) Network Engineer
8 37 (8.08%) Operations Analyst
9 32 (6.99%) IT Analyst
10 30 (6.55%) IT Support Analyst
11 27 (5.90%) IT Technician
12 25 (5.46%) Development Manager
13 24 (5.24%) Business Development Manager
13 24 (5.24%) Business Manager
13 24 (5.24%) IT Manager
14 22 (4.80%) 1st Line Support
14 22 (4.80%) Operations Engineer
14 22 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (4.80%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.18%) 802.1X
2 8 (1.75%) SAML
3 3 (0.66%) LDAP
3 3 (0.66%) REST
3 3 (0.66%) YAML
4 2 (0.44%) .NET
4 2 (0.44%) CSS
4 2 (0.44%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (0.44%) HTML
4 2 (0.44%) WebRTC
5 1 (0.22%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.22%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.22%) pytest
5 1 (0.22%) RESTful
5 1 (0.22%) WCF
5 1 (0.22%) Web Services
5 1 (0.22%) WPF
5 1 (0.22%) XML
5 1 (0.22%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.42%) Management Information System
2 27 (5.90%) Driving Licence
3 25 (5.46%) Fat Client
3 25 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (5.46%) Thin Client
3 25 (5.46%) Video Conferencing
4 24 (5.24%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.06%) IoT
6 10 (2.18%) Cyber Defence
6 10 (2.18%) Security Operations Centre
7 9 (1.97%) Client/Server
7 9 (1.97%) Operational Technology
8 8 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.53%) CCTV
9 7 (1.53%) Clustering
9 7 (1.53%) FMCG
10 6 (1.31%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.31%) Smartphone
11 5 (1.09%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 220 (48.03%) Windows
2 141 (30.79%) Windows Server
3 45 (9.83%) Windows 10
4 28 (6.11%) Linux
5 21 (4.59%) Mac OS
6 20 (4.37%) Apple iOS
6 20 (4.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 20 (4.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (4.15%) Android
8 18 (3.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (2.18%) Windows 7
10 5 (1.09%) Mac OS X
10 5 (1.09%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.87%) CentOS
12 3 (0.66%) Unix
12 3 (0.66%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.44%) Windows 2000
13 2 (0.44%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.22%) VMS
14 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (21.62%) Customer Service
2 90 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (15.07%) ITIL
4 53 (11.57%) Change Management
5 51 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 43 (9.39%) Service Delivery
8 33 (7.21%) Business Development
9 32 (6.99%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (6.99%) Disaster Recovery
10 30 (6.55%) Asset Management
11 29 (6.33%) Decision-Making
12 28 (6.11%) Agile
12 28 (6.11%) Mentoring
13 26 (5.68%) Service Management
14 24 (5.24%) Incident Management
14 24 (5.24%) Information Security
14 24 (5.24%) ITSM
14 24 (5.24%) Project Delivery
15 23 (5.02%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.33%) PowerShell
2 13 (2.84%) SQL
3 11 (2.40%) Python
4 9 (1.97%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.31%) Bash
6 4 (0.87%) R
7 3 (0.66%) C
7 3 (0.66%) C++
7 3 (0.66%) Java
8 2 (0.44%) C#
9 1 (0.22%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.22%) Perl
9 1 (0.22%) PHP
9 1 (0.22%) Swift
9 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (17.90%) Degree
2 59 (12.88%) Cisco Certification
3 43 (9.39%) CCNA
4 31 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (5.68%) CCNP
6 18 (3.93%) MCSE
7 17 (3.71%) CCIE
7 17 (3.71%) CISSP
8 14 (3.06%) CISM
9 12 (2.62%) CCDP
10 11 (2.40%) CISA
10 11 (2.40%) CompTIA CySA+
10 11 (2.40%) DBS Check
11 9 (1.97%) MCSA
11 9 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (1.75%) MCP
13 7 (1.53%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 6 (1.31%) A+ Certification
14 6 (1.31%) Security Cleared
15 5 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.49%) SLA
2 10 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (1.97%) GDPR
4 8 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.31%) QA
6 5 (1.09%) NIST
7 3 (0.66%) NCSC
8 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 189 (41.27%) Active Directory
2 79 (17.25%) Hyper-V
3 65 (14.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.37%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (3.06%) vSphere
6 8 (1.75%) Firmware
7 7 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.09%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.66%) Ceph
10 2 (0.44%) pfSense
10 2 (0.44%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.22%) Docker
11 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.22%) KVM
11 1 (0.22%) Postfix
11 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.22%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 43 (9.39%) SCCM
2 33 (7.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (2.84%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.53%) Autotask
5 7 (1.53%) ZABBIX
6 6 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.87%) Ansible
9 3 (0.66%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.66%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.66%) N-central
9 3 (0.66%) Puppet
9 3 (0.66%) Terraform
10 2 (0.44%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.44%) Nessus
10 2 (0.44%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.22%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.22%) VxRail
11 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 212 (46.29%) Microsoft
2 101 (22.05%) Cisco
3 100 (21.83%) VMware
4 35 (7.64%) Meraki
5 29 (6.33%) Sophos
6 24 (5.24%) Mitel
7 23 (5.02%) Veeam
8 19 (4.15%) CheckPoint
8 19 (4.15%) Citrix
8 19 (4.15%) HP
9 18 (3.93%) Fortinet
10 16 (3.49%) Datto
11 15 (3.28%) Draytek
11 15 (3.28%) Palo Alto
12 14 (3.06%) Aruba
12 14 (3.06%) Google
13 13 (2.84%) Acronis
14 12 (2.62%) BT
15 11 (2.40%) Dell
15 11 (2.40%) Juniper