Voice Over IP (VoIP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VoIP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 359 383
Rank change year-on-year -41 +24 +72
Permanent jobs citing VoIP 342 292 637
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.70% 0.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.29% 5.27% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 269 214 556
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £24,598
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,813 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £37,250 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +9.56% -14.19%
75th Percentile £46,250 £48,563 £47,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,500 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £33,125 £32,500
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% -14.47%

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 10,393 5,542 13,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 13.33% 13.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,077 3,756 9,611
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,715
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,750 £45,000 £43,227
% change year-on-year -16.11% +4.10% -3.94%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VoIP job vacancy trend in the UK

VoIP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VoIP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VoIP

VoIP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VoIP over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for VoIP in the UK

VoIP
Top 17 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 17 April 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
England -45 315 £33,750 -7.53% 82
UK excluding London -33 273 £32,500 -1.89% 72
South East -8 91 £33,500 +11.67% 20
Work from Home +14 81 £40,000 - 23
North of England -35 72 £37,500 +28.21% 22
London -4 66 £42,000 -21.50% 14
North West +7 45 £37,500 +7.14% 7
Midlands -63 42 £32,000 -12.93% 7
South West -40 32 £32,500 -18.75% 6
East Midlands -41 24 £30,000 -14.29% 4
Yorkshire -63 22 £33,500 +19.64% 13
West Midlands -41 18 £32,000 -44.35% 3
Scotland -13 13 £33,500 -22.09% 4
East of England -28 12 £33,250 -4.15% 13
Wales -21 10 £49,625 -1.19% 2
North East -38 5 £45,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -35 1 - -

VoIP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 72 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (16.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.29%) IIS
3 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (8.48%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.17%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.58%) Line 50
Cloud Services
1 163 (47.66%) Microsoft 365
2 95 (27.78%) Azure
3 55 (16.08%) Entra ID
4 30 (8.77%) Google Workspace
5 22 (6.43%) OneDrive
6 20 (5.85%) AWS
7 10 (2.92%) SaaS
8 9 (2.63%) Mimecast
9 8 (2.34%) IaaS
9 8 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (2.34%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.34%) Twilio
10 4 (1.17%) Dropbox
11 3 (0.88%) Asana
11 3 (0.88%) ClickUp
11 3 (0.88%) GitHub
11 3 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.88%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.88%) Stripe
12 2 (0.58%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 99 (28.95%) Firewall
2 93 (27.19%) VPN
3 92 (26.90%) DNS
4 89 (26.02%) Wi-Fi
5 87 (25.44%) DHCP
6 79 (23.10%) WAN
7 68 (19.88%) LAN
8 49 (14.33%) TCP/IP
9 46 (13.45%) VLAN
10 37 (10.82%) Unified Communications
11 36 (10.53%) PBX
12 23 (6.73%) Broadband
13 20 (5.85%) SD-WAN
13 20 (5.85%) WebEx
14 18 (5.26%) BGP
14 18 (5.26%) Wireshark
15 16 (4.68%) DECT
15 16 (4.68%) Network Security
16 15 (4.39%) DSL
16 15 (4.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.34%) Power BI
3 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.88%) MySQL
4 2 (0.58%) FileMaker
5 1 (0.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (2.05%) JIRA
2 5 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.17%) GitLab
3 4 (1.17%) VersionOne
4 3 (0.88%) Git
General
1 134 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 101 (29.53%) Telecoms
3 27 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
4 22 (6.43%) Finance
5 20 (5.85%) Marketing
6 17 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.39%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.34%) Legal
9 8 (2.34%) Retail Banking
10 7 (2.05%) Military
10 7 (2.05%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.46%) Advertising
12 3 (0.88%) Billing
13 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.29%) Electronics
14 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 119 (34.80%) IT Support
2 91 (26.61%) Support Engineer
3 70 (20.47%) IT Engineer
4 66 (19.30%) IT Support Engineer
5 59 (17.25%) 2nd Line Support
6 32 (9.36%) Support Technician
7 31 (9.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 31 (9.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 19 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (4.97%) Network Engineer
10 16 (4.68%) Analyst
10 16 (4.68%) IT Support Technician
10 16 (4.68%) IT Technician
10 16 (4.68%) Senior
10 16 (4.68%) Support Analyst
11 14 (4.09%) VoIP Engineer
12 13 (3.80%) Account Manager
12 13 (3.80%) Technical Engineer
13 12 (3.51%) Lead
14 11 (3.22%) Voice Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.63%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.34%) FreeSWITCH
3 7 (2.05%) REST
4 4 (1.17%) ModSecurity
4 4 (1.17%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (1.17%) SOAP
4 4 (1.17%) Web Services
5 3 (0.88%) .NET
5 3 (0.88%) Django
5 3 (0.88%) Flask
5 3 (0.88%) Jinja
5 3 (0.88%) OAuth
5 3 (0.88%) OAuth2
5 3 (0.88%) pytest
5 3 (0.88%) RFC 2833
5 3 (0.88%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (0.88%) WebRTC
6 2 (0.58%) CSS
6 2 (0.58%) HTML
7 1 (0.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.99%) Driving Licence
2 28 (8.19%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (6.14%) Web Conferencing
4 20 (5.85%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.39%) Data Centre
6 13 (3.80%) Social Media
7 12 (3.51%) IVR
8 11 (3.22%) CCTV
8 11 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.75%) Acoustics
9 6 (1.75%) FMCG
10 5 (1.46%) iPad
11 4 (1.17%) CMDB
11 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Licensing
11 4 (1.17%) PKI
12 3 (0.88%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.88%) EPoS
13 2 (0.58%) Handset
13 2 (0.58%) iPhone
13 2 (0.58%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 148 (43.27%) Windows
2 81 (23.68%) Windows Server
3 76 (22.22%) Windows 10
4 43 (12.57%) Mac OS
5 34 (9.94%) Linux
6 24 (7.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (6.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (3.80%) Android
10 5 (1.46%) Apple iOS
10 5 (1.46%) Debian
10 5 (1.46%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.88%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.88%) Unix
12 2 (0.58%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (29.53%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (18.13%) Customer Service
3 54 (15.79%) ITIL
4 33 (9.65%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (9.36%) CRM
6 29 (8.48%) Root Cause Analysis
7 28 (8.19%) Time Management
8 27 (7.89%) B2B
9 25 (7.31%) Customer Experience
9 25 (7.31%) Presales
10 23 (6.73%) Service Delivery
11 22 (6.43%) Network Management
12 20 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (5.85%) Service Management
13 19 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (4.68%) AI
14 16 (4.68%) ITSM
15 15 (4.39%) High Availability
16 14 (4.09%) Case Management
17 13 (3.80%) B2B Sales
Programming Languages
1 40 (11.70%) PowerShell
2 16 (4.68%) Python
3 14 (4.09%) SQL
4 7 (2.05%) Bash
5 6 (1.75%) C
5 6 (1.75%) C++
6 2 (0.58%) PHP
7 1 (0.29%) Go
7 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (17.25%) Degree
2 35 (10.23%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (8.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 28 (8.19%) Security Cleared
5 23 (6.73%) CCNA
5 23 (6.73%) DBS Check
6 22 (6.43%) SC Cleared
7 16 (4.68%) CCNP
8 14 (4.09%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.34%) CTC Cleared
9 8 (2.34%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.75%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.75%) CCIE
11 6 (1.75%) Chartered Engineer
11 6 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.46%) MCSE
12 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.17%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 25 (7.31%) SLA
3 22 (6.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (4.68%) GDPR
5 13 (3.80%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.46%) NIST
7 4 (1.17%) QA
8 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.58%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 124 (36.26%) Active Directory
2 51 (14.91%) Hyper-V
3 26 (7.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.34%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.05%) Terminal Services
6 6 (1.75%) vSphere
7 5 (1.46%) BitLocker
7 5 (1.46%) Docker
8 4 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.88%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.88%) KVM
10 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (13.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (6.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (5.85%) Jamf Pro
4 11 (3.22%) Cisco CUCM
5 8 (2.34%) Ansible
5 8 (2.34%) Check_MK
6 7 (2.05%) SCCM
7 5 (1.46%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.17%) Kubernetes
8 4 (1.17%) SmoothWall
8 4 (1.17%) WSUS
9 3 (0.88%) Argo
10 2 (0.58%) OpenView
10 2 (0.58%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.58%) VxRail
11 1 (0.29%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.29%) SCOM
11 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 166 (48.54%) Microsoft
2 73 (21.35%) Cisco
3 30 (8.77%) Google
4 28 (8.19%) VMware
5 22 (6.43%) Apple
6 20 (5.85%) Meraki
7 13 (3.80%) Sophos
8 12 (3.51%) Genesys
9 11 (3.22%) Oracle
9 11 (3.22%) Ubiquiti
10 10 (2.92%) SonicWALL
11 9 (2.63%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.63%) SolarWinds
11 9 (2.63%) Yealink
12 8 (2.34%) Logitech
12 8 (2.34%) Veeam
12 8 (2.34%) Verint
13 6 (1.75%) Adobe
13 6 (1.75%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.75%) TP-LINK