VoIP Contracts in the West Midlands

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring VoIP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VoIP over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 105 168
Rank change year-on-year +5 +63 -22
Contract jobs citing VoIP 14 18 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.74% 0.91% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.32% 4.16% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 12
10th Percentile £303 £204 £170
25th Percentile £322 £242 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £488 £313
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +56.00% -39.02%
75th Percentile £374 £541 £428
90th Percentile £384 £603 £483
England median daily rate £413 £440 £394
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.75% -1.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

VoIP 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 263 433 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.91% 22.00% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 230 271
10th Percentile £200 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £435
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -8.05% +3.76%
75th Percentile £616 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 20 7
10th Percentile £17.62 - £13.40
25th Percentile £26.25 £23.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.75 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +18.56% +52.90%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £26.06
90th Percentile £45.00 £67.63 £26.38
England median hourly rate £49.00 £56.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.26% +25.53% +117.39%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VoIP in the West Midlands

VoIP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VoIP in the West Midlands

VoIP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VoIP in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VoIP in the West Midlands

VoIP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Birmingham +10 13 £355 -29.00% 5
VoIP
England

VoIP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) RTP
2 9 (64.29%) DHCP
2 9 (64.29%) DNS
2 9 (64.29%) INAP
3 6 (42.86%) Intelligent Network
4 3 (21.43%) HTTP
5 1 (7.14%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (7.14%) Firewall
5 1 (7.14%) LAN
5 1 (7.14%) MPLS
5 1 (7.14%) Network Security
5 1 (7.14%) RTCP
5 1 (7.14%) Softphone
5 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.14%) VLAN
5 1 (7.14%) VPN
5 1 (7.14%) WAN
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) JMeter
1 12 (85.71%) Locust
1 12 (85.71%) Robot Framework
1 12 (85.71%) Selenium
1 12 (85.71%) TestCafe
General
1 12 (85.71%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Back Office
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Engineering Specialist
1 7 (50.00%) QA Specialist
2 4 (28.57%) Telecoms Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Telecoms Test Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) LDAP
1 9 (64.29%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
1 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 9 (64.29%) CentOS
2 9 (64.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (64.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 12 (85.71%) Performance Testing
1 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 9 (64.29%) Build Automation
2 9 (64.29%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Microservices
3 3 (21.43%) Robotic Process Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.14%) API Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Application Security
5 1 (7.14%) Load Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Security Hardening
5 1 (7.14%) Server Management
5 1 (7.14%) Test Scripting
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Ansible
1 12 (85.71%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Dialogic
1 9 (64.29%) Metaswitch
2 1 (7.14%) Avaya
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) VMware