RS-232
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RS-232 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RS-232 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 687 849
Rank change year-on-year +103 +162 -164
Contract jobs citing RS-232 7 31 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.052% 0.006%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% 0.42% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 17 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile - £49.88 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.56 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £56.25 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +42.23% -10.11%
75th Percentile £56.44 £59.06 -
90th Percentile £59.00 £59.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £56.25 £39.55
% change year-on-year -15.56% +42.23% -10.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RS-232 is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,522 7,324 9,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,303 4,766 6,317
10th Percentile £205 £242 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 475 360
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.87
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RS-232 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RS-232 in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RS-232.

Daily rate trend for RS-232 in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RS-232.

Hourly rate trend for RS-232 in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RS-232 within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
England +86 7 - - 24
UK excluding London +63 7 - - 28
South East - 6 - - 7
Work from Home +117 1 - - 14
East of England +1 1 - - 3

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio
2 4 (57.14%) Subversion
3 2 (28.57%) LabVIEW
4 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) RF Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) RF Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) MFC
1 1 (14.29%) WinForms
1 1 (14.29%) WPF
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Acquisition
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C
2 5 (71.43%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) C++/CLI
4 1 (14.29%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft