Microsoft Skype
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Skype skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Skype over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 792 849 938
Rank change year-on-year +57 +89 -398
Permanent jobs citing Skype 98 128 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.73% 0.82% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 65 109 209
10th Percentile £31,100 £31,182 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £54,000 £53,750 £61,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £87,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +2.86% -30.00%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,478 15,631 21,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.76% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,898 11,750
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,580 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Skype.

Salary trend for Skype in the UK

Skype
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Skype over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Skype in the UK

Skype
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Skype within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +63 98 £41,500 +3.75% 32
UK excluding London -67 51 £40,000 +11.11% 21
London +121 47 £49,000 +20.99% 11
Midlands -7 19 £32,500 -18.75% 5
West Midlands +18 17 £32,500 - 5
North of England +44 15 £44,000 +22.22% 5
Work from Home +56 13 £50,000 -9.09% 13
South West -22 10 £55,000 +83.33% 7
Yorkshire +76 7 £44,000 +22.22% 1
North West +4 7 £40,000 -17.66% 4
East of England -1 4 £27,500 -50.00% 3
South East -27 3 £47,500 +35.71% 1
East Midlands -12 2 £35,000 -34.88%
North East -6 1 £31,500 -8.70%

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 72 (73.47%) Skype for Business
2 29 (29.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (12.24%) SharePoint
4 5 (5.10%) CMS
5 3 (3.06%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (2.04%) Confluence
6 2 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (1.02%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 64 (65.31%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Carpe Diem
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.02%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 51 (52.04%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (8.16%) Azure
2 8 (8.16%) Mimecast
3 7 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.08%) OneDrive
4 4 (4.08%) WhatsApp
5 2 (2.04%) OCI
6 1 (1.02%) AWS
6 1 (1.02%) GCP
6 1 (1.02%) Slack
6 1 (1.02%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.51%) Cisco IOS
1 25 (25.51%) Telepresence
2 16 (16.33%) VoIP
3 13 (13.27%) VPN
4 11 (11.22%) DNS
5 10 (10.20%) Firewall
5 10 (10.20%) Internet
5 10 (10.20%) MPLS
5 10 (10.20%) TCP/IP
6 8 (8.16%) BGP
6 8 (8.16%) LAN
6 8 (8.16%) Network Security
6 8 (8.16%) OSPF
6 8 (8.16%) Reverse Proxy
6 8 (8.16%) SD-WAN
6 8 (8.16%) SSL
6 8 (8.16%) WAN
6 8 (8.16%) Wireless
7 7 (7.14%) SAN
7 7 (7.14%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (1.02%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 2 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 41 (41.84%) Social Skills
2 38 (38.78%) Finance
3 30 (30.61%) Law
4 27 (27.55%) Automotive
5 26 (26.53%) Telecoms
6 25 (25.51%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (9.18%) Legal
8 6 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Marketing
10 1 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (34.69%) Support Engineer
2 22 (22.45%) IT Support
3 20 (20.41%) Analyst
4 15 (15.31%) Support Specialist
5 13 (13.27%) IT Support Specialist
6 10 (10.20%) Desktop Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Desktop Support
6 10 (10.20%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Network Analyst
7 8 (8.16%) Network Security Analyst
7 8 (8.16%) Security Analyst
8 7 (7.14%) Graduate
8 7 (7.14%) Graduate Support Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) IT Analyst
8 7 (7.14%) Support Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) IT Support Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Wintel Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (5.10%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.16%) 802.1X
1 8 (8.16%) SAML
2 4 (4.08%) CSS
2 4 (4.08%) HTML
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 54 (55.10%) Video Conferencing
2 15 (15.31%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 10 (10.20%) Management Information System
5 8 (8.16%) Client/Server
6 6 (6.12%) PKI
7 4 (4.08%) Smartphone
8 2 (2.04%) Blackberry
8 2 (2.04%) Smartcard
9 1 (1.02%) Clustering
9 1 (1.02%) Fat Client
9 1 (1.02%) Replication
9 1 (1.02%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 71 (72.45%) Windows
2 47 (47.96%) Windows 10
3 29 (29.59%) Windows 7
4 21 (21.43%) Android
5 19 (19.39%) Apple iOS
6 17 (17.35%) Windows Server
7 8 (8.16%) Mac OS X
8 6 (6.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (3.06%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (2.04%) Linux
10 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.90%) ITIL
2 31 (31.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (20.41%) Time Management
4 17 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (15.31%) Information Security
5 15 (15.31%) Inventory Management
5 15 (15.31%) ITSM
6 14 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (11.22%) Service Management
8 9 (9.18%) Change Control
8 9 (9.18%) Customer Service
9 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure Management
9 8 (8.16%) Load Balancing
10 7 (7.14%) Incident Management
11 6 (6.12%) Change Management
11 6 (6.12%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (6.12%) Security Patching
12 5 (5.10%) Coaching
12 5 (5.10%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.20%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.10%) SQL
3 4 (4.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (37.76%) Degree
2 25 (25.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 25 (25.51%) Master's Degree
2 25 (25.51%) MBA
3 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (5.10%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.04%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.04%) MCSE
7 1 (1.02%) APMP
7 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) SLA
2 3 (3.06%) GDPR
2 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.02%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.02%) P3O
3 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.16%) vSphere
3 6 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.08%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.02%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (8.16%) SCCM
1 8 (8.16%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (4.08%) AirWatch
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.06%) WSUS
4 2 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.02%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (1.02%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.02%) OfficeScan
5 1 (1.02%) SCOM
5 1 (1.02%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 85 (86.73%) Microsoft
2 33 (33.67%) Apple
3 31 (31.63%) Cisco
4 26 (26.53%) Polycom
5 8 (8.16%) CheckPoint
5 8 (8.16%) Ribbon
6 6 (6.12%) Citrix
7 4 (4.08%) Dell
7 4 (4.08%) iManage
8 3 (3.06%) HP
8 3 (3.06%) Mitel
8 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.06%) VMware
9 2 (2.04%) Acronis
9 2 (2.04%) EqualLogic
9 2 (2.04%) Oracle
9 2 (2.04%) Symantec
9 2 (2.04%) Synology
9 2 (2.04%) Virgin Media
10 1 (1.02%) McAfee