RSVP Contract Job Trends

Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring RSVP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 - 583
Rank change year-on-year - - +180
Contract jobs citing RSVP 4 0 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% - 0.053%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.098% - 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 21
10th Percentile £95 - £510
25th Percentile £141 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £226 - £600
75th Percentile £319 - £613
90th Percentile £370 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £386 - £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RSVP 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 4,065 4,072 6,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.39% 13.10% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,677 2,390 3,688
10th Percentile £204 £210 £206
25th Percentile £350 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £467 £475
% change year-on-year -3.54% -1.79% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 136 414
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.85 £14.40
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.44 £33.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% -32.50% +150.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.24 £30.04 £53.00
% change year-on-year +37.28% -43.32% +166.60%

RSVP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RSVP job vacancy trend in the UK

RSVP
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RSVP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RSVP

RSVP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RSVP over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RSVP in the UK

RSVP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RSVP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RSVP

RSVP
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RSVP within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England - 4 £226 - 1
London - 3 £65 -
South East - 1 £386 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £386 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £386 - 1

RSVP
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 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) MPLS
2 3 (75.00%) 5G
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) NGFW
4 1 (25.00%) Broadband
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (25.00%) IPsec
4 1 (25.00%) Multicast
4 1 (25.00%) OSPF
4 1 (25.00%) SSL
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Design Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) IP Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) IP Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Network Design
2 3 (75.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Fault Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCIP
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) F5
1 3 (75.00%) Nokia
2 1 (25.00%) BT
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper