RSVP Contract Job Trends in the South East

Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring RSVP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 - 207
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing RSVP 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.021% - 0.018%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% - 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £368 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 - £400
75th Percentile £404 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £226 - £600

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

RSVP 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 628 566 1,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.49% 17.92% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 303 655
10th Percentile £219 £230 £200
25th Percentile £350 £375 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +7.53% -7.01%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £637
England median daily rate £488 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.17% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 105
10th Percentile £17.87 £31.25 £14.15
25th Percentile £23.25 £35.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £55.50 £60.50 £57.99
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +4.33% +28.87%
75th Percentile £69.97 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.20 £71.25 £83.88
England median hourly rate £29.44 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.89% -30.00% +143.90%

RSVP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RSVP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

RSVP job vacancy trend in the South East

RSVP
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RSVP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RSVP

RSVP
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 RSVP within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 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
Berkshire - 1 £386 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £386 - 1
RSVP
England

RSVP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Fault Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BT
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper