RTP Contract Job Trends in England

Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 513 569
Rank change year-on-year -1 +56 +199
Contract jobs citing RTP 4 17 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.014% 0.053% 0.036%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 0.44% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £308 £364 £610
25th Percentile £309 £380 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 £425 £653
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -34.87% +76.35%
75th Percentile £319 £588 £714
90th Percentile £319 - £736
UK median daily rate £319 £413 £605
% change year-on-year -22.67% -31.82% +63.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.38
25th Percentile - - £62.81
Median hourly rate - - £68.75
75th Percentile - - £72.81
90th Percentile - - £74.13
UK median hourly rate - - £68.75

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,286 3,874 5,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.68% 12.17% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,100 2,229 3,559
10th Percentile £214 £240 £220
25th Percentile £360 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £688 £688 £701
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 145 311
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.79 £17.30
25th Percentile £20.00 £26.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £33.39 £55.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -39.30% -2.64% +37.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.45
% change year-on-year -29.98% -13.97% +42.63%

RTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

RTP job vacancy trend in England

RTP
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RTP

RTP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RTP

RTP
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 RTP within the England region over the 6 months to 19 October 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 +22 3 £316 -25.71% 42
East of England - 1 - - 39
RTP
UK

RTP
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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (25.00%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (25.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Procurement Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) BYOD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 2 (50.00%) Contract Management
1 2 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Dialogic
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Metaswitch
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) VMware