Hybrid/Remote RTCP Contract Job Trends

Real-Time Control Protocol (RTCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring RTCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 313 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing RTCP 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.009% 0.019% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.091% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% - -
75th Percentile £425 £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £400 £575 -
% change year-on-year -30.43% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,099 1,199 1,980
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.22% 11.21% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 724 1,233
10th Percentile £300 £313 £305
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £600
90th Percentile £688 £734 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 28 90
10th Percentile £15.66 £17.32 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £36.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £41.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.77% +39.17% -53.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.06 £67.19
90th Percentile £66.50 £74.13 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £29.44 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -9.42% -31.58% +137.50%

RTCP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RTCP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

RTCP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

RTCP
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RTCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RTCP

RTCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) XCAP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#