Skype for Business Contracts in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 140 204
Rank change year-on-year +5 +64 +1
Contract jobs citing Skype for Business 1 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.038% 0.072% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.43% 0.78% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - £190
25th Percentile - £173 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £175 £275
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -36.36% -
75th Percentile - £178 £280
90th Percentile - - £487
England median daily rate £513 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +20.59% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.54
Median hourly rate - - £16.94
75th Percentile - - £17.33
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £22.00 £16.94
% change year-on-year - +29.91% +8.64%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 233 257 812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.75% 9.24% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 180 577
10th Percentile £250 £211 £180
25th Percentile £372 £323 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £413 £495
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -16.67% +10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £539 £540
90th Percentile £626 £662 £600
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 14
10th Percentile £14.91 £12.89 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £12.66
Median hourly rate £20.24 £18.50 £16.24
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% +13.95% -1.61%
75th Percentile £33.75 £19.75 £18.68
90th Percentile £58.50 £21.50 £30.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £27.00 £18.63
% change year-on-year +66.67% +44.97% +1.61%

Skype for Business
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Skype for Business in the Midlands

Skype for Business
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Skype for Business in the Midlands

Skype for Business
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Skype for Business in the Midlands

Skype for Business
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
West Midlands +1 1 £400 +128.57%
Skype for Business
England

Skype for Business
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Google Workspace
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Skype
General
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft