RSVP Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 130 - 145
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing RSVP 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.044% - 0.036%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% - 0.15%
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 - - -
South East median daily rate £386 - £400

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 317 329 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.04% 19.67% 24.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 154 385
10th Percentile £219 £230 £205
25th Percentile £303 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% - -7.77%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £575
90th Percentile £629 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.53% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 46
10th Percentile £17.63 £19.12 £16.56
25th Percentile £23.25 £20.04 £22.80
Median hourly rate £55.50 £21.83 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +154.24% -43.66% +46.23%
75th Percentile £84.50 £23.37 £81.25
90th Percentile £89.88 £24.14 £87.27
South East median hourly rate £55.50 £60.50 £57.99
% change year-on-year -8.26% +4.33% +28.87%

RSVP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

RSVP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

RSVP
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RSVP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RSVP

RSVP
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 RSVP within the Thames Valley 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
RSVP
South East

RSVP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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