Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RTP over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 895 955 1165
Rank change year-on-year +60 +210 -328
Permanent jobs citing RTP 10 18 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.017% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.074% 0.11% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 28
10th Percentile £27,500 - £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -15.58% +31.62%
75th Percentile £56,250 £67,188 £80,500
90th Percentile £58,875 £73,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -29.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RTP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,589 16,002 20,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 15.38% 13.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,487 8,190 11,843
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,265
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for RTP in the UK

RTP
Top 8 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 28 April 2024. 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 -4 10 £52,500 +5.00% 5
England +105 8 £53,750 -17.31% 5
South West - 5 £52,500 - 3
North of England - 3 £55,000 - 2
Wales - 2 £27,500 -
North West - 2 £55,000 - 1
Work from Home +74 1 £80,000 +23.08% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 - 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) VSAN
2 3 (30.00%) BGP
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (30.00%) EIGRP
2 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) OSPF
2 3 (30.00%) PBX
2 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (30.00%) Spanning Tree
2 3 (30.00%) VoIP
2 3 (30.00%) WAN
3 2 (20.00%) Broadband
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (10.00%) Asterisk PBX
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) IT Technician
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms Technician
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Debian
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) CentOS
3 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (40.00%) Security Hardening
2 2 (20.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bash
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) CCNA
2 3 (30.00%) CCNP
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (40.00%) vSphere
2 3 (30.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (10.00%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Podman
1 4 (40.00%) Puppet
1 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) Huawei
4 1 (10.00%) Dialogic
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Ribbon