RS-485
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RS-485 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RS-485 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 696 843
Rank change year-on-year +134 +147 -175
Contract jobs citing RS-485 36 23 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.038% 0.007%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.64% 0.31% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +129.51%
75th Percentile - - £725
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £700
% change year-on-year - - +129.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 9 0
10th Percentile - £54.75 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £72.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RS-485 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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

RS-485
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RS-485 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RS-485 in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RS-485.

Daily rate trend for RS-485 in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RS-485.

Hourly rate trend for RS-485 in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +141 36 - - 19
UK excluding London +80 36 - - 25
East of England +32 36 - - 4

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 36 (100.00%) Modbus
1 36 (100.00%) RS-422
General
1 36 (100.00%) Electronics
2 28 (77.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 27 (75.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) C Software Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) C/C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (77.78%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Agile
1 36 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 36 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 36 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 36 (100.00%) DevOps
1 36 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 36 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 36 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 36 (100.00%) TDD
1 36 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 8 (22.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) C
1 36 (100.00%) C#
1 36 (100.00%) C++