RTMP Contract Job Trends

Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring RTMP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 - 571
Rank change year-on-year - - +61
Contract jobs citing RTMP 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% - 0.005%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.039% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.33%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RTMP 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 5,111 3,807 4,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.35% 11.56% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,962 2,354 2,642
10th Percentile £232 £225 £225
25th Percentile £390 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -4.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £677 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £452 £500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -9.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 198 255
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% -14.85% -10.60%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.55 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.69 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -37.20% -25.89% -0.26%

RTMP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RTMP job vacancy trend in the UK

RTMP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

RTMP
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RTMP within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
South East - 2 - - 1
England - 2 - - 5
Work from Home - 2 - - 4
UK excluding London - 2 - - 2

RTMP
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 2 (100.00%) Broadband
1 2 (100.00%) Multicast
1 2 (100.00%) TETRA
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Broadcast Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Broadcast Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Power Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) KVM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Peplink
1 2 (100.00%) Starlink