RFC 2544 Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RFC 2544 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £230 - -
25th Percentile £275 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £302 - -
90th Percentile £305 - -
England median daily rate £300 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 498 713 975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.01% 12.90% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 469 688
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £619 £625
90th Percentile £662 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.35% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 41 35
10th Percentile £20.09 £35.00 £50.50
25th Percentile £35.91 £56.65 £56.38
Median hourly rate £54.94 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £59.09 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.09 £75.00 £79.83
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +26.83%

RFC 2544
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing RFC 2544 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for RFC 2544 in the South East

RFC 2544
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RFC 2544 in the South East.

Daily rate trend for RFC 2544 in the South East

RFC 2544
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 25 May 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
Berkshire - 6 £300 - 7
Thames Valley - 6 £300 - 10
RFC 2544
England

RFC 2544
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Network Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
3 1 (16.67%) QA Manager
3 1 (16.67%) QA Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (66.67%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 4 (66.67%) Test Management
3 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (50.00%) Service Management
4 2 (33.33%) Case Management
4 2 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Use Case
5 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (16.67%) Network Design
5 1 (16.67%) Network Management
5 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) HP