RFC 2544 Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RFC 2544 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £301 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £303 - -
75th Percentile £306 - -
90th Percentile £307 - -
South East median daily rate £303 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 275 367 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.20% 13.66% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 234 352
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £617 £625
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.58 £52.90
25th Percentile £27.11 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £80.25
90th Percentile £86.38 £62.00 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

RFC 2544
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for RFC 2544 in the Thames Valley

RFC 2544
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RFC 2544 in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for RFC 2544 in the Thames Valley

RFC 2544
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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 - 3 £303 -
RFC 2544
South East

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