RS-232 Contracts with Work from Home Options

RS-232
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for RS-232 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RS-232 over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 441 -
Rank change year-on-year +101 - -
Contract jobs citing RS-232 1 14 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.056% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.065% 0.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 -
UK median daily rate - £575 £650
% change year-on-year - -11.54% +114.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £56.25 £39.55
% change year-on-year -15.56% +42.23% -10.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

RS-232 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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,540 2,861 4,379
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.46% 11.55% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,891 2,972
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £676
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 97 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.50 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.14 £42.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £57.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.70% +21.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £63.56
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year +116.22% -30.84% +7.00%

RS-232
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing RS-232 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RS-232 trend for jobs with a WFH option

RS-232
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing RS-232.

RS-232 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

RS-232
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing RS-232.

RS-232 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

RS-232
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) MFC
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) C++/CLI
1 1 (100.00%) Python