RS-422 Contract Job Trends

RS-422
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring RS-422 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 - 535
Rank change year-on-year - - +131
Contract jobs citing RS-422 3 0 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - 0.085%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.066% - 0.67%
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 excluding London median daily rate £625 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 36
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RS-422 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,577 3,706 5,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 12.69% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,833 2,291 3,215
10th Percentile £263 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £362 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -4.85%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 162 417
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £17.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.57 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -8.57% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £58.73 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £25.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +69.00% -45.51% +154.89%

RS-422
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RS-422 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

RS-422 job vacancy trend in the UK

RS-422
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RS-422.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RS-422

RS-422
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RS-422.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RS-422

RS-422
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RS-422 within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 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
England - 3 £625 - 2
East of England - 3 £625 - 1
UK excluding London - 3 £625 - 2

RS-422
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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-485
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++