RNC Contracts

Radio Network Controller (RNC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring RNC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RNC over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 - 845
Rank change year-on-year - - -120
Contract jobs citing RNC 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - 0.003%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.018% - 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £425
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RNC 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 requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,422 7,095 9,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.41% 12.77% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,210 4,570 6,438
10th Percentile £210 £244 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 445 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £51.28
90th Percentile £70.90 £75.00 £65.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%

RNC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RNC in the UK

RNC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RNC in the UK

RNC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RNC in the UK

RNC
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 RNC within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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
South East - 1 - -
England - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -

RNC
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Spatial
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) Spatial Data
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (100.00%) Mapinfo
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle