Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring RTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RTP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 681 886 970
Rank change year-on-year +205 +84 +179
Permanent jobs citing RTP 11 10 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.010% 0.018%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.073% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 12
10th Percentile - £27,500 -
25th Percentile - £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -19.23% -15.58%
75th Percentile £42,000 £56,250 £67,188
90th Percentile £83,400 £58,875 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -42.86% +5.00% +17.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RTP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,964 13,635 16,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.38% 13.84% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,270 9,518 8,181
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,063 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% -

RTP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RTP in the UK

RTP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RTP.

Salary trend for RTP in the UK

RTP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RTP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for RTP in the UK

RTP
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RTP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +209 10 £30,000 -42.86% 13
England +175 9 £30,000 -44.19% 13
South East - 5 £30,000 - 1
East of England - 3 £42,000 - 4
North of England +83 1 - - 5
North West +31 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 - -

RTP
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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) VLAN
1 7 (63.64%) VoIP
2 5 (45.45%) DHCP
2 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) PBX
2 5 (45.45%) Softphone
2 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (18.18%) BGP
3 2 (18.18%) EIGRP
3 2 (18.18%) H.323
3 2 (18.18%) OSPF
3 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
3 2 (18.18%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (18.18%) Unified Communications
3 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (18.18%) Wireshark
4 1 (9.09%) Internet
4 1 (9.09%) Multicast
4 1 (9.09%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
3 4 (36.36%) Legal
4 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (18.18%) Local Government
6 1 (9.09%) Banking
6 1 (9.09%) Electronics
6 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Support Technician
1 5 (45.45%) Telecoms Technician
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Pricing Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Real Time Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Telephony Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) XML
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
2 2 (18.18%) Drools
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Signage
2 1 (9.09%) IPTV
2 1 (9.09%) MPEG
2 1 (9.09%) Online Banking
2 1 (9.09%) PCIe
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (9.09%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (63.64%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (54.55%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (45.45%) Customer Service
4 5 (45.45%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 5 (45.45%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (45.45%) Data Protection
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (18.18%) DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) DSDM
7 2 (18.18%) ITIL
7 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (18.18%) OO
7 2 (18.18%) OOP
7 2 (18.18%) Project Management
7 2 (18.18%) RAD
8 1 (9.09%) Content Management
8 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.09%) C
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PHP
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 20022
1 1 (9.09%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco
1 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
1 2 (18.18%) HP
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Mitel
1 2 (18.18%) Red Box
1 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat