RFC 2544 Contracts in Hampshire

Request for Comments: 2544 - Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RFC 2544 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 - -
South East median daily rate £290 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 134 165 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.86% 9.18% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 100 129
10th Percentile £400 £348 £406
25th Percentile £450 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +6.67% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £666 £707
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 24
10th Percentile - £48.13 £53.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £64.38 £58.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +1.82% +44.74%
75th Percentile £58.73 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £59.71 £76.25 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £66.25
% change year-on-year -18.83% -7.02% +43.24%

RFC 2544
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Farnborough - 1 £280 -
RFC 2544
South East

RFC 2544
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco