Skype for Business Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Lync)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Skype for Business skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Skype for Business over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 235 267
Rank change year-on-year +50 +32 +1
Permanent jobs citing Skype for Business 11 12 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.23% 1.67% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 0 12 12
10th Percentile - - £22,200
25th Percentile - £31,250 £27,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £32,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.91%
75th Percentile - £33,750 £35,938
90th Percentile - - £48,125
England median annual salary £52,000 £40,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% +2.56% -22.00%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

Skype for Business falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 260 720 728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.82% 9.94% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 189 588 399
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,375
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £79,200
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% +1.82%

Skype for Business
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Skype for Business as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Skype for Business in the West Midlands

Skype for Business
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Skype for Business in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Skype for Business in the West Midlands

Skype for Business
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Skype for Business within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham - 9 - -
Herefordshire - 2 - - 1
Skype for Business
England

Skype for Business
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Skype
2 9 (81.82%) Unified Communications
2 9 (81.82%) Wireless
3 2 (18.18%) DHCP
3 2 (18.18%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) Firewall
3 2 (18.18%) SAN
3 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (81.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Collaboration Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Digital Signage
1 9 (81.82%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) User Experience
2 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
2 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Project Management
3 1 (9.09%) Scrum
3 1 (9.09%) Tech Ops
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 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 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
1 2 (18.18%) SCOM
1 2 (18.18%) SCOrch
1 2 (18.18%) SCSM
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco
1 9 (81.82%) Mitel
1 9 (81.82%) Polycom
1 9 (81.82%) ShoreTel
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) VMware