RS-422
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RS-422 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RS-422 over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 897 940 1232
Rank change year-on-year +43 +292 -309
Permanent jobs citing RS-422 8 6 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.006% 0.019%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.059% 0.039% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 7
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,125 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +21.36% -6.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile - - £56,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +21.36% -6.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

RS-422 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 13,603 15,428 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.92% 16.28% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,727 11,819
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,419 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

RS-422
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RS-422 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RS-422 in the UK

RS-422
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RS-422.

Salary trend for RS-422 in the UK

RS-422
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RS-422 over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for RS-422 in the UK

RS-422
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RS-422 within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -36 7 £55,000 -12.00% 7
England +65 5 £65,000 +4.00% 5
East of England -5 4 £65,000 - 1
Work from Home - 4 £65,000 - 1
Wales - 2 £45,000 - 2
South West -28 1 £40,000 -11.11% 2

RS-422
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 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Ethernet
1 6 (75.00%) RS-232
1 6 (75.00%) RS-485
2 5 (62.50%) Modbus
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Electronics
2 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Ada Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Ada Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Development Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Development Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Junior
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Embedded Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (25.00%) FPGA
2 2 (25.00%) PCIe
2 2 (25.00%) VHDL
3 1 (12.50%) CAN bus
3 1 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Design for Manufacturing
3 2 (25.00%) Design for Test
3 2 (25.00%) Schematic Capture
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Data Acquisition
4 1 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
4 1 (12.50%) Post-Production
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C
2 4 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Ada
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 2 (25.00%) C++
4 2 (25.00%) Embedded C
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (12.50%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) HNC
2 2 (25.00%) HND
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Altera
1 2 (25.00%) Cadence
1 2 (25.00%) EMC
1 2 (25.00%) Lattice Semiconductor
2 1 (12.50%) Siemens