Softphone Contracts in the Midlands

Soft Phone
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Softphone skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Softphone 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 127 139 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Contract jobs citing Softphone 9 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 0.11% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.51% 0.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £226 £160 -
25th Percentile £254 £175 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £200 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% - -
75th Percentile £353 £219 -
90th Percentile £387 £230 -
England median daily rate £326 £325 £280
% change year-on-year +0.38% +16.07% -43.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

Softphone falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 359 543 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.48% 19.53% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 302 398
10th Percentile £173 £213 £179
25th Percentile £291 £313 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% -3.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £616 £538 £538
90th Percentile £715 £664 £629
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 29 16
10th Percentile £20.30 £17.05 £15.38
25th Percentile £22.18 £23.00 £16.89
Median hourly rate £24.20 £27.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.40% +45.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.50 £26.91
90th Percentile - - £46.13
England median hourly rate £49.50 £56.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.37% +25.53% +117.39%

Softphone
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Softphone as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Softphone in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Softphone in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Softphone in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Softphone in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Softphone in the Midlands

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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 Softphone 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 +7 8 £300 +50.00%
East Midlands - 1 £170 -
Softphone
England

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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 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) LAN
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 8 (88.89%) WAN
3 4 (44.44%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (44.44%) SAN
4 3 (33.33%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (11.11%) MPLS
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security
5 1 (11.11%) RTCP
5 1 (11.11%) RTP
5 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) VLAN
5 1 (11.11%) VoIP
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Voice Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Business Continuity
3 4 (44.44%) Change Control
3 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (44.44%) System Testing
4 3 (33.33%) BCP
4 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
4 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) SIEM
5 2 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (22.22%) Ethical Hacking
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (11.11%) Business Case
6 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CISMP
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Avaya
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) VMware