RTP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring RTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RTP 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.29% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £368 - -
England median daily rate £367 £316 £425
% change year-on-year +16.23% -25.71% -34.87%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

RTP 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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 331 214 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.71% 15.77% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 88 121
10th Percentile £313 £188 £213
25th Percentile £384 £309 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £600 £700 £600
England median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 63 48
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £18.89
25th Percentile £22.27 £16.30 £25.03
Median hourly rate £66.25 £45.00 £58.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.22% -23.08% -10.00%
75th Percentile £72.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.45 £84.27 -
England median hourly rate £38.72 £34.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +13.88% -40.87% +1.79%

RTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RTP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

RTP job vacancy trend in the East of England

RTP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RTP

RTP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RTP

RTP
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RTP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. 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
Suffolk - 7 £367 - 3
RTP
England

RTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) VoIP
2 6 (85.71%) Wireshark
3 4 (57.14%) Asterisk PBX
3 4 (57.14%) RTCP
4 3 (42.86%) tcpdump
5 2 (28.57%) INAP
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) Locust
2 2 (28.57%) Robot Framework
2 2 (28.57%) TestCafe
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Voice Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) QA Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) FreeSWITCH
1 4 (57.14%) Servlets
2 3 (42.86%) WebRTC
3 2 (28.57%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Media Streaming
1 1 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) CentOS
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) AI
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational AI
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational UI
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
4 1 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Test Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) MOS
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Metaswitch
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Dialogic
3 2 (28.57%) Google