RS-485 Contract Job Trends in London

RS-485
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring RS-485 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RS-485 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,294 1,527 2,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.05% 9.79% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 940 1,382
10th Percentile £306 £256 £214
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £732 £750
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 12 57
10th Percentile £20.24 £23.73 £18.93
25th Percentile - £29.69 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +40.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £29.31 £45.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £61.78 £80.06 £77.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -38.22% -14.04% +25.53%

RS-485
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

RS-485 job vacancy trend in London

RS-485
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

RS-485
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

RS-485
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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