RS-232 Contracts in the UK excluding London

RS-232
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for RS-232 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RS-232 over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 437 505
Rank change year-on-year +56 +68 -71
Contract jobs citing RS-232 7 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.042% 0.016%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.28% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - £550 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile - £49.88 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.56 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £56.25 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +42.23% -10.11%
75th Percentile £56.44 £59.06 -
90th Percentile £59.00 £59.63 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £56.25 £39.55
% change year-on-year -15.56% +42.23% -10.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

RS-232 is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,393 3,560 4,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.44% 14.91% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,945 2,259 2,657
10th Percentile £203 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 323 237
10th Percentile £13.48 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.92% -31.36% +3.77%

RS-232
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RS-232 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RS-232 in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RS-232 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for RS-232 in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RS-232 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for RS-232 in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RS-232 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
South East - 6 - - 7
East of England 0 1 - - 4
RS-232
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio
2 4 (57.14%) Subversion
3 2 (28.57%) LabVIEW
4 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) RF Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) RF Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) MFC
1 1 (14.29%) WinForms
1 1 (14.29%) WPF
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Acquisition
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C
2 5 (71.43%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) C++/CLI
4 1 (14.29%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft