Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RSVP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RSVP over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 694 849
Rank change year-on-year +129 +155 -156
Contract jobs citing RSVP 25 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.015% 0.012%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.45% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 2
10th Percentile £575 £443 £528
25th Percentile £588 £489 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £583 £558
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +4.48% +11.50%
75th Percentile £613 £687 £574
90th Percentile - £740 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,561 7,346 9,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 12.40% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 4,780 6,318
10th Percentile £205 £242 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 476 359
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.86
25th Percentile £16.90 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

RSVP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RSVP in the UK

RSVP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RSVP.

Daily rate trend for RSVP in the UK

RSVP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RSVP.

Hourly rate trend for RSVP in the UK

RSVP
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RSVP within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +141 25 £600 +3.00% 1
London +115 25 £600 +41.18%
Work from Home +121 2 - - 1

RSVP
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:

Communications & Networking
1 25 (100.00%) BGP
1 25 (100.00%) MPLS
2 17 (68.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 17 (68.00%) HSRP
2 17 (68.00%) IPv4
2 17 (68.00%) SNMP
2 17 (68.00%) VPLS
2 17 (68.00%) VRRP
3 9 (36.00%) Cisco IOS
3 9 (36.00%) IOS XR
4 8 (32.00%) Firewall
5 6 (24.00%) 5G
5 6 (24.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 6 (24.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 6 (24.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
General
1 23 (92.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) IP Expert
2 9 (36.00%) Cisco Expert
3 8 (32.00%) Design Engineer
3 8 (32.00%) Network Design Engineer
3 8 (32.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (92.00%) JSON
1 23 (92.00%) NETCONF
1 23 (92.00%) XML
1 23 (92.00%) YANG
2 17 (68.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 25 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) DevOps
2 17 (68.00%) Test Planning
3 8 (32.00%) Network Design
3 8 (32.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 6 (24.00%) Business Strategy
4 6 (24.00%) Load Balancing
4 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (8.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) CCIE
1 9 (36.00%) CCIE Service Provider
1 9 (36.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Nokia
2 14 (56.00%) Fortinet
3 9 (36.00%) Cisco
4 6 (24.00%) F5
4 6 (24.00%) Palo Alto