The first table below looks at the demand for RTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RTP over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
Rank 200 216 233
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +17
Contract jobs citing RTP 3 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.013% 0.031%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.358% 0.098% 0.308%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
Average daily rate £350 £525 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £295 £575
% change year-on-year
+52.54% -48.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £40.00
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
839 1017 974
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.06% 12.94% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 692 637
Average daily rate £388 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.06% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £270 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 39 71
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £17.55 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
RTP
London

RTP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RTP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London RTP Jobs Demand Trend

RTP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RTP across the City of London region.

City of London RTP Daily Rate Trend

RTP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RTP across the City of London region.

City of London RTP Hourly Rate Trend

RTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RTP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RTP.

1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) OO
1 2 (40.00%) OOD
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Apple
1 2 (40.00%) OSPF
1 2 (40.00%) BGP
1 2 (40.00%) Avaya
1 2 (40.00%) H.323
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Handset
1 2 (40.00%) Cocoa
1 2 (40.00%) Xcode
1 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (40.00%) Softphone
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Mercurial
1 2 (40.00%) Video on Demand
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS

RTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RTP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) Cocoa
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
1 2 (40.00%) OSPF
1 2 (40.00%) BGP
1 2 (40.00%) H.323
1 2 (40.00%) Softphone
2 1 (20.00%) LTE
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) RTCP
2 1 (20.00%) GSM
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Xcode
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (40.00%) Mercurial
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Voice Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Android Developer
1 2 (40.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Handset
1 2 (40.00%) Video on Demand
2 1 (20.00%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) OO
1 2 (40.00%) OOD
1 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Avaya Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Apple
1 2 (40.00%) Avaya
1 2 (40.00%) CyberTech
2 1 (20.00%) Acme Packet
2 1 (20.00%) BT