RTP Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring RTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RTP 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 5.04% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £368 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £367 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 69 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 49.64% 9.68% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 2 3
10th Percentile - £321 -
25th Percentile £313 £353 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £410 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.49% +9.33% -10.45%
75th Percentile £431 £473 £431
90th Percentile £498 £507 £458
Suffolk median daily rate £368 £263 £220
% change year-on-year +40.19% +19.32% -44.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - -
Median hourly rate £17.12 - -
75th Percentile £18.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.12 - £48.56

RTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

RTP job vacancy trend in Ipswich

RTP
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing RTP

RTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) VoIP
2 6 (85.71%) Wireshark
3 4 (57.14%) Asterisk PBX
3 4 (57.14%) RTCP
4 3 (42.86%) tcpdump
5 2 (28.57%) INAP
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) Locust
2 2 (28.57%) Robot Framework
2 2 (28.57%) TestCafe
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Voice Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) QA Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) FreeSWITCH
1 4 (57.14%) Servlets
2 3 (42.86%) WebRTC
3 2 (28.57%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Media Streaming
1 1 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) CentOS
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) AI
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational AI
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational UI
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
4 1 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Test Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) MOS
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Metaswitch
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Dialogic
3 2 (28.57%) Google