RFC 2544 Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Request for Comments: 2544 - Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring RFC 2544 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RFC 2544 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.12% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

RFC 2544 falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 169 136 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.36% 21.55% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 84 95
10th Percentile £413 £400 £248
25th Percentile £475 £447 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -8.43%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £533 £450
% change year-on-year -1.41% +18.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.80 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.13 - -
90th Percentile £71.60 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -1.05% +57.14% -

RFC 2544
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Network Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Traceability Matrix
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco