RTCP Contract Job Trends

Real-Time Control Protocol (RTCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring RTCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 675 - 544
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RTCP 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.007% - 0.016%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.079% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £333 - £383
25th Percentile £346 - £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - £425
75th Percentile £372 - £513
90th Percentile £374 - £558
UK excluding London median daily rate £368 - £575

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RTCP 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 5,080 3,822 4,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.47% 11.76% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,005 2,349 2,716
10th Percentile £235 £238 £230
25th Percentile £399 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +2.31% -6.16% +10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 201 286
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.69
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% -10.45% -8.64%
75th Percentile £65.22 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.92 £42.50 £56.87
% change year-on-year -39.01% -25.27% +0.67%

RTCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RTCP job vacancy trend in the UK

RTCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

RTCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

RTCP
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 RTCP within the UK over the 6 months to 3 September 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 £367 - 10
East of England - 3 £368 - 5
UK excluding London - 3 £368 - 9
London - 1 £350 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £367 - 2

RTCP
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 4 (100.00%) RTP
1 4 (100.00%) VoIP
2 3 (75.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Engineering Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Voice Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 4 (100.00%) Servlets
2 2 (50.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Metaswitch
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Google