RTCP Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Real-Time Control Protocol (RTCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring RTCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RTCP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.028% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £400 £575 -
% change year-on-year -30.43% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

RTCP 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 384 294 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.86% 14.13% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 162 280
10th Percentile £157 £158 £200
25th Percentile £263 £211 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £431 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +1.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £583 £550
90th Percentile £582 £689 £650
England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 42
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.61 £12.38
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.20 £14.26
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.18 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% +7.47% +4.74%
75th Percentile £35.00 £34.38 £64.13
90th Percentile £61.60 £36.39 £67.50
England median hourly rate £29.44 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -15.89% -26.32% +137.50%

RTCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

RTCP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

RTCP
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RTCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RTCP

RTCP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RTCP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
RTCP
England

RTCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) XCAP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#