RTP Contract Job Trends in London

Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring RTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 359 388
Rank change year-on-year -36 +29 +133
Contract jobs citing RTP 4 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.025% 0.023% 0.049%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% 0.23% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £840 £343 -
25th Percentile £863 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +89.47% +18.75% -
75th Percentile - £563 £425
90th Percentile - £608 -
England median daily rate £850 £385 £400
% change year-on-year +120.78% -3.75% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,336 1,312 1,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.29% 10.12% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 825 1,199
10th Percentile £258 £256 £200
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £619
90th Percentile £694 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 74
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.94
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +59.09% -14.43%
75th Percentile £39.32 £43.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £60.35 £61.23
England median hourly rate £40.54 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.83% -12.50% +110.53%

RTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

RTP job vacancy trend in London

RTP
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RTP

RTP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RTP

RTP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RTP within the London region over the 6 months to 10 March 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
Central London - 1 £850 -
RTP
England

RTP
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) KDB
1 3 (75.00%) Kdb+
1 3 (75.00%) Tick Data
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Real Time Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) KDB Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Low Latency
1 3 (75.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Korn
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Ribbon
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk