RTP Contract Job Trends in the South West

Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring RTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RTP 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.042% - 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.40% - 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £62.00
25th Percentile - - £66.88
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £76.00
90th Percentile - - £76.60
England median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 250 306 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.46% 14.78% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 193 255
10th Percentile £225 £260 £240
25th Percentile £325 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £597 £588 £675
90th Percentile £720 £698 £735
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 70
10th Percentile £15.62 £11.75 £45.71
25th Percentile £36.25 £12.50 £48.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +15.06% -5.85%
75th Percentile £64.50 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £65.57 - £76.25
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +46.73%

RTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

RTP job vacancy trend in the South West

RTP
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing RTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing RTP

RTP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing RTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing RTP

RTP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RTP within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Devon - 1 - - 2
RTP
England

RTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) H.323
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XMPP
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Genesys
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft