RFC 2544 Contracts in England

Request for Comments: 2544 - Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring RFC 2544 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RFC 2544 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RFC 2544 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.055% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £301 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £303 - -
75th Percentile £306 - -
90th Percentile £307 - -
UK median daily rate £328 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

RFC 2544
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RFC 2544 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RFC 2544 in England

RFC 2544
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RFC 2544 in England.

Daily rate trend for RFC 2544 in England

RFC 2544
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RFC 2544 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South East - 3 £303 -
RFC 2544
UK

RFC 2544
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Network Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 1 (33.33%) QA Manager
1 1 (33.33%) QA Test Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Network Management
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) HP