City of London DSL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DSL over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire City of London Clevedon East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties London Luton Milton Keynes Newbury North West Northampton Northamptonshire Solihull Somerset South East South West Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex Wiltshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	215	192
Rank change on same period last year	-23
Matching contract IT job ads	5	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.487 %	0.675 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£499
% change on same period last year	-36.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£17.50	£23.33
% change on same period last year	-24.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£26.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.55	£30.38
% change on same period last year	+26.89 %
Communications & Networking City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	1026	889
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.368 %	0.887 %
Daily rates quoted	510	378
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£400
Average daily rate	£394	£416
% change on same period last year	-5.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£343
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	68	55
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.31	£20.66
Average hourly rate	£28.03	£22.06
% change on same period last year	+27.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.76	£23.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.76
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
DSL London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DSL across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DSL across the City of London region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DSL across the City of London region.

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing DSL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DSL.

1 4 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 3 (50.00 %) MPLS 2 3 (50.00 %) OSPF 3 2 (33.33 %) BGP 3 2 (33.33 %) EIGRP 3 2 (33.33 %) VRRP 3 2 (33.33 %) Firewall 3 2 (33.33 %) Ethernet 3 2 (33.33 %) Juniper 3 2 (33.33 %) VLAN 3 2 (33.33 %) VPLS 3 2 (33.33 %) NGN 3 2 (33.33 %) LLU 3 2 (33.33 %) DNS 4 1 (16.67 %) Lucent

4 1 (16.67 %) Alcatel 4 1 (16.67 %) RIP 4 1 (16.67 %) Telecoms 4 1 (16.67 %) IPv4 4 1 (16.67 %) CCIP 4 1 (16.67 %) CCNA 4 1 (16.67 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (16.67 %) Broadband 4 1 (16.67 %) ISDN 4 1 (16.67 %) LAN 4 1 (16.67 %) VoIP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing DSL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (50.00 %) MPLS 1 3 (50.00 %) OSPF 2 2 (33.33 %) BGP 2 2 (33.33 %) EIGRP 2 2 (33.33 %) VRRP 2 2 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 2 (33.33 %) VLAN 2 2 (33.33 %) VPLS 2 2 (33.33 %) NGN 2 2 (33.33 %) LLU 2 2 (33.33 %) Ethernet 2 2 (33.33 %) DNS 3 1 (16.67 %) IPv4 3 1 (16.67 %) RIP 3 1 (16.67 %) Broadband 3 1 (16.67 %) ISDN 3 1 (16.67 %) LAN 3 1 (16.67 %) VoIP	General 1 1 (16.67 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 2 (33.33 %) Network Engineer 1 2 (33.33 %) Infrastructure Engineer 1 2 (33.33 %) Exchange Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Senior Network Engineer	Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) CCIP 1 1 (16.67 %) CCNA 1 1 (16.67 %) Cisco Certification
Vendors 1 4 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 2 (33.33 %) Juniper 3 1 (16.67 %) Lucent 3 1 (16.67 %) Alcatel