Softswitch Contracts

Softswitch
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Softswitch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Softswitch over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 - 857
Rank change year-on-year - - -153
Contract jobs citing Softswitch 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - 0.007%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.018% - 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £479 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.80%
75th Percentile £486 - £450
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 - £375

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Softswitch 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 5,406 7,129 9,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.45% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,227 4,606 6,336
10th Percentile £205 £235 £233
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 460 376
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -30.84% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.09 £50.83
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.55 £65.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
% change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -5.49%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Softswitch in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Softswitch in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Softswitch in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Softswitch within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Yorkshire - 1 £483 -
England - 1 £483 -
UK excluding London - 1 £483 -
North of England - 1 £483 -

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) PBX
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Ribbon