RS-485 Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

RS-485
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring RS-485 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 337 372
Rank change year-on-year -72 +35 +100
Contract jobs citing RS-485 3 2 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.015% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% 0.089% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £605 - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £626 - -
90th Percentile £626 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 36
10th Percentile - - £63.13
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

RS-485 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,324 2,236 3,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.66% 16.57% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,531 1,296 2,077
10th Percentile £190 £188 £205
25th Percentile £300 £300 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% +1.06%
75th Percentile £563 £580 £588
90th Percentile £655 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -5.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 104 331
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.44 £14.27
25th Percentile £16.00 £20.94 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.54 £26.75 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% -48.45% +160.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.63 £73.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.38 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -12.68% -31.58% +143.59%

RS-485
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RS-485 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

RS-485 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

RS-485
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RS-485.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RS-485

RS-485
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RS-485.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RS-485

RS-485
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-485 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
East of England - 3 £625 - 1
RS-485
UK

RS-485
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (100.00%) Modbus
1 3 (100.00%) RS-232
1 3 (100.00%) RS-422
General
1 3 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++