Skype for Business Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Skype for Business skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Skype for Business over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 136 162
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 -23
Contract jobs citing Skype for Business 2 24 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.076% 0.74% 0.29%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.78% 7.27% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 7
10th Percentile £561 £363 £376
25th Percentile £597 £448 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £772 £675 £613
90th Percentile £804 £875 £648
England median daily rate £575 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +35.29% - +0.59%

All Application Platform Skills
South West

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 257 330 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.76% 10.12% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 233 358
10th Percentile £250 £266 £313
25th Percentile £432 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £625
90th Percentile £675 £701 £675
England median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 10
10th Percentile £58.71 £15.60 £11.00
25th Percentile £70.51 £45.13 £16.61
Median hourly rate £74.00 £73.00 £20.11
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% +263.09% +8.68%
75th Percentile £74.22 £78.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.44 £88.30 £73.35
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +4.40% +111.63% +13.16%

Skype for Business
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Skype for Business in the South West

Skype for Business
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Skype for Business in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Skype for Business in the South West

Skype for Business
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Skype for Business in the South West over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Skype for Business in the South West

Skype for Business
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Skype for Business in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Skype for Business in the South West

Skype for Business
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Skype for Business within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +13 2 £688 +5.77% 1
Skype for Business
England

Skype for Business
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Skype
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) NsoIT
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) VMware