RS-485 Contract Job Trends in England

RS-485
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RS-485 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 512 528
Rank change year-on-year -31 +16 +207
Contract jobs citing RS-485 2 3 36
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% 0.010% 0.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.059% 0.081% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 36
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

RS-485 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,387 3,685 5,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 12.80% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,190 2,163 3,259
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 113 314
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £18.68
25th Percentile £20.56 £21.46 £23.02
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.21
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -8.57% -37.99% +37.57%

RS-485
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RS-485 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

RS-485 job vacancy trend in England

RS-485
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RS-485.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RS-485

RS-485
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RS-485.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RS-485

RS-485
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 RS-485 within the England region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
London - 2 £550 - 2
RS-485
UK

RS-485
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (100.00%) Modbus
1 2 (100.00%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded C++
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware