Microsoft Skype
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Skype skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Skype over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 518 610
Rank change year-on-year +2 +92 -180
Contract jobs citing Skype 82 196 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.46% 2.66% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 124 157
10th Percentile £207 £305 £154
25th Percentile £263 £400 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.85% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £650 £575 £488
90th Percentile £708 £638 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £470 £425
% change year-on-year +33.05% +10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 15
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile £28.25 - £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £21.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £46.88 - £56.40
90th Percentile £57.75 - £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 - £69.05
% change year-on-year - - +10.48%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,356 9,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.91% 12.36% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,361 4,780 6,328
10th Percentile £205 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +3.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £438
% change year-on-year +1.32% +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 478 361
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.88
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% -0.88%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £69.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Skype.

Daily rate trend for Skype in the UK

Skype
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Skype over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Skype in the UK

Skype
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Skype.

Hourly rate trend for Skype in the UK

Skype
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Skype over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Skype in the UK

Skype
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Skype within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +47 72 £400 -12.85% 35
UK excluding London -48 43 £625 +33.05% 20
London +90 36 £380 -19.11% 16
Work from Home +91 22 £475 +2.26% 16
North of England +36 14 £625 +42.86% 6
North West +35 13 £625 +38.89% 3
South West -16 13 £600 +14.29% 5
South East -16 7 £464 +17.41% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Scotland +31 3 - -
Midlands - 2 - - 4
West Midlands - 2 - - 2
Yorkshire +25 1 £282 -33.76% 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 52 (63.41%) Skype for Business
2 42 (51.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (31.71%) SharePoint
4 12 (14.63%) Exchange Server 2003
4 12 (14.63%) Exchange Server 2007
4 12 (14.63%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (12.20%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (6.10%) Confluence
7 4 (4.88%) CMS
8 2 (2.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (2.44%) Exchange Server 5.5
9 1 (1.22%) nginx
Applications
1 35 (42.68%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (6.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (57.32%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (14.63%) Azure
2 12 (14.63%) Entra ID
2 12 (14.63%) OneDrive
3 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.22%) Azure Stack
4 1 (1.22%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.51%) LAN
1 16 (19.51%) WAN
2 10 (12.20%) Cisco IOS
2 10 (12.20%) DNS
3 9 (10.98%) ISDN
3 9 (10.98%) Network Security
3 9 (10.98%) VoIP
4 8 (9.76%) Converged Networks
5 7 (8.54%) Firewall
5 7 (8.54%) Unified Communications
6 6 (7.32%) DHCP
6 6 (7.32%) TCP/IP
7 5 (6.10%) VPN
8 3 (3.66%) HTTP
8 3 (3.66%) NAS
8 3 (3.66%) SAN
8 3 (3.66%) SMTP
8 3 (3.66%) VSAN
9 2 (2.44%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (2.44%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) Power BI
1 3 (3.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 31 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.61%) Finance
3 17 (20.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.10%) Legal
4 5 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.66%) Electronics
6 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.66%) Marketing
6 3 (3.66%) Military
6 3 (3.66%) Police
7 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) IT Support
2 15 (18.29%) Support Engineer
3 13 (15.85%) Analyst
4 11 (13.41%) Architect
5 9 (10.98%) Senior
5 9 (10.98%) Voice Architect
6 8 (9.76%) Support Analyst
7 7 (8.54%) IT Analyst
7 7 (8.54%) Wintel Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) IT Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) IT Support Analyst
8 6 (7.32%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Support Officer
9 4 (4.88%) Administrator
9 4 (4.88%) Desktop Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Desktop Support
9 4 (4.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (4.88%) Senior Technical Analyst
9 4 (4.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.66%) CSS
1 3 (3.66%) XML
2 1 (1.22%) .NET
2 1 (1.22%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.39%) iPhone
2 13 (15.85%) Video Conferencing
3 12 (14.63%) CMDB
4 10 (12.20%) PKI
5 7 (8.54%) Management Information System
6 6 (7.32%) Blackberry
7 3 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.66%) Clustering
7 3 (3.66%) Fat Client
7 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.66%) Thin Client
8 2 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.44%) Replication
8 2 (2.44%) Smartphone
9 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.22%) Hedge funds
9 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (63.41%) Windows
2 24 (29.27%) Windows Server
3 23 (28.05%) Windows 10
4 17 (20.73%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (15.85%) Apple iOS
5 13 (15.85%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (14.63%) Windows 7
7 10 (12.20%) Windows Server 2003
8 9 (10.98%) Linux
9 8 (9.76%) Android
9 8 (9.76%) Mac OS X
10 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.93%) ITIL
2 23 (28.05%) Customer Service
3 22 (26.83%) ITSM
4 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (15.85%) Migration
6 12 (14.63%) Mobile Device Management
6 12 (14.63%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 10 (12.20%) Service Management
8 8 (9.76%) Agile
8 8 (9.76%) Impact Assessments
8 8 (9.76%) Service Design
9 7 (8.54%) Change Management
10 5 (6.10%) Computer Science
11 4 (4.88%) Incident Management
11 4 (4.88%) Resource Management
11 4 (4.88%) Service Delivery
12 3 (3.66%) Disaster Recovery
12 3 (3.66%) PRINCE2
12 3 (3.66%) Programme Management
12 3 (3.66%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.39%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.20%) SQL
3 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (42.68%) Security Cleared
2 27 (32.93%) SC Cleared
3 20 (24.39%) Degree
4 9 (10.98%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (4.88%) MCSE
5 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.66%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (3.66%) MCP
7 2 (2.44%) CCNA
7 2 (2.44%) CCNP
7 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.44%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) SLA
2 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 54 (65.85%) Active Directory
2 14 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (6.10%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (4.88%) Docker
4 4 (4.88%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.66%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.66%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (28.05%) SCCM
2 12 (14.63%) Jamf Pro
2 12 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (9.76%) SCOM
4 6 (7.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (4.88%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (3.66%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 3 (3.66%) OPNET
6 3 (3.66%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.66%) WSUS
7 2 (2.44%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 1 (1.22%) Ansible
8 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.22%) Puppet
8 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (59.76%) Microsoft
2 32 (39.02%) Citrix
3 22 (26.83%) Apple
4 20 (24.39%) ServiceNow
5 18 (21.95%) VMware
6 16 (19.51%) Cisco
7 8 (9.76%) Mitel
7 8 (9.76%) Progress
8 6 (7.32%) EMC
8 6 (7.32%) SolarWinds
9 5 (6.10%) SAP
10 4 (4.88%) Becrypt
11 3 (3.66%) IronPort
11 3 (3.66%) Remedy
11 3 (3.66%) Splunk
11 3 (3.66%) Veeam
12 2 (2.44%) Atlassian
12 2 (2.44%) Polycom
12 2 (2.44%) Symantec
13 1 (1.22%) Proofpoint