RTCP Contract Job Trends in England

Real-Time Control Protocol (RTCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RTCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 - 523
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RTCP 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% - 0.015%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.070% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £367 - £428
25th Percentile £367 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 - £500
75th Percentile £368 - £550
90th Percentile £368 - £573
UK median daily rate £368 - £425

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

RTCP 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 4,310 3,324 4,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.14% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,604 2,065 2,418
10th Percentile £259 £238 £250
25th Percentile £400 £363 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £505
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 167 253
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% -25.89% +1.52%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% -10.00% -9.09%

RTCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

RTCP job vacancy trend in England

RTCP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RTCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RTCP

RTCP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RTCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RTCP

RTCP
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 RTCP within the England region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
East of England - 3 £368 - 5
RTCP
UK

RTCP
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 3 (100.00%) RTP
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Voice Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (100.00%) Servlets
2 2 (66.67%) WebRTC
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational AI
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Metaswitch
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Google