RTP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring RTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 356 409
Rank change year-on-year -21 +53 +94
Contract jobs citing RTP 2 14 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.082% 0.042%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.093% 0.56% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £361 £610
25th Percentile £406 £373 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £480 £653
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% -26.44% +76.35%
75th Percentile £419 £588 £714
90th Percentile - - £736
UK median daily rate £319 £413 £605
% change year-on-year -22.67% -31.82% +63.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.38
25th Percentile - - £62.81
Median hourly rate - - £68.75
75th Percentile - - £72.81
90th Percentile - - £74.13
UK median hourly rate - - £68.75

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,156 2,508 3,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.44% 14.74% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 1,371 2,207
10th Percentile £191 £200 £206
25th Percentile £300 £334 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% +3.33%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £588
90th Percentile £648 £651 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 141 274
10th Percentile £15.42 £16.30 £16.50
25th Percentile £17.74 £26.25 £23.25
Median hourly rate £41.48 £52.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% -7.06% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.40
% change year-on-year -29.98% -13.90% +39.99%

RTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

RTP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

RTP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RTP

RTP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RTP

RTP
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 RTP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Wales - 1 £413 - 12
East of England - 1 - - 39
RTP
UK

RTP
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 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Metaswitch
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle