Unified Communications Contracts in the South East

Unified Communications
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Unified Communications skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unified Communications over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 198 244
Rank change year-on-year +3 +46 -64
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 5 17 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.087% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.42% 1.73% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 16
10th Percentile £395 £466 £256
25th Percentile £425 £481 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +27.57% -9.09%
75th Percentile £602 £597 £500
90th Percentile £648 £629 £650
England median daily rate £500 £488 £456
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.85% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% +33.33%
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £41.64
% change year-on-year - -54.37% +113.51%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

Unified Communications 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,192 982 1,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 20.72% 17.34% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 578 777
10th Percentile £214 £246 £210
25th Percentile £390 £363 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +6.79% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £700 £651
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 70 85
10th Percentile £17.26 £18.20 £14.27
25th Percentile £29.81 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +171.49% -48.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.81 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £63.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

Unified Communications
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Unified Communications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Unified Communications in the South East

Unified Communications
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unified Communications in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Unified Communications in the South East

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unified Communications in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unified Communications in the South East

Unified Communications
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unified Communications in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Unified Communications in the South East

Unified Communications
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unified Communications within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Thames Valley 0 3 £400 -16.76% 4
Berkshire -12 3 £400 -23.81% 3
Surrey +13 1 £500 -13.04%
Hampshire - 1 £653 - 1
Unified Communications
England

Unified Communications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (20.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) MPLS
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DSL
2 2 (40.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) TACACS
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) PPP
3 1 (20.00%) RIP
3 1 (20.00%) SDH
3 1 (20.00%) SNMP
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Communications Security
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) eTOM
3 1 (20.00%) Information Management
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Process Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) CCDP
2 1 (20.00%) CCIP
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Juniper
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) ADVA
2 1 (20.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (20.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (20.00%) Ceridian
2 1 (20.00%) Concur
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam
2 1 (20.00%) VMware