The first table below looks at the demand for DSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DSL over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
Rank 480 517 544
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +27
Contract jobs citing DSL 33 42 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.079% 0.079% 0.048%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.540% 0.501% 0.366%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 11
Average daily rate £400 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £140 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £455 £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £140 £270
% change year-on-year
+132.14% -48.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -4.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -26.19%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6108 8385 7368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.69% 15.72% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3064 3932 3397
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 561 752
Average hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
DSL
UK

DSL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DSL across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

England DSL Jobs Demand Trend

DSL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DSL across the England region.

England DSL Daily Rate Trend

DSL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DSL across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England DSL Daily Rate Histogram

DSL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DSL across the England region.

England DSL Hourly Rate Trend

DSL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DSL within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +33 17 £400 -1.05%
South East +15 8 £450 +221.42%
East of England +21 5 £325 +18.18%
West Midlands +3 2 - -
South West - 1 - -
DSL
UK

DSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 24 (31.58%) Telecoms
2 23 (30.26%) TCP/IP
3 21 (27.63%) Cisco
4 20 (26.32%) LAN
5 19 (25.00%) WAN
6 18 (23.68%) MPLS
7 17 (22.37%) ADSL
8 15 (19.74%) Migration
9 14 (18.42%) HP
9 14 (18.42%) Ethernet
9 14 (18.42%) Security Cleared
10 13 (17.11%) VoIP
10 13 (17.11%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (17.11%) Wireless
11 12 (15.79%) Citrix
11 12 (15.79%) Windows
11 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
11 12 (15.79%) LLU
12 11 (14.47%) BGP
13 10 (13.16%) OSPF
13 10 (13.16%) Firewall
13 10 (13.16%) SNMP
13 10 (13.16%) VPN
14 9 (11.84%) SDH
14 9 (11.84%) Windows XP
14 9 (11.84%) Broadband
14 9 (11.84%) Linux
14 9 (11.84%) BT
14 9 (11.84%) Service Delivery
14 9 (11.84%) Juniper

DSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

Application Development
1 7 (9.211%) Application Packaging
2 4 (5.263%) HTML
2 4 (5.263%) CGI
3 1 (1.316%) XML
3 1 (1.316%) XSLT
3 1 (1.316%) FpML
3 1 (1.316%) Drools
3 1 (1.316%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.316%) CMS
1 1 (1.316%) EPiServer CMS
1 1 (1.316%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (5.263%) MS Excel
1 4 (5.263%) MS Office
2 2 (2.632%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.632%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 23 (30.26%) TCP/IP
2 20 (26.32%) LAN
3 19 (25.00%) WAN
4 18 (23.68%) MPLS
5 17 (22.37%) ADSL
6 14 (18.42%) Ethernet
7 13 (17.11%) VoIP
7 13 (17.11%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (17.11%) Wireless
8 12 (15.79%) LLU
9 11 (14.47%) BGP
10 10 (13.16%) OSPF
10 10 (13.16%) Firewall
10 10 (13.16%) SNMP
10 10 (13.16%) VPN
11 9 (11.84%) SDH
11 9 (11.84%) Broadband
12 6 (7.895%) IP Telephony
12 6 (7.895%) xDSL
12 6 (7.895%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.947%) MySQL
2 1 (1.316%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (1.316%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.316%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.316%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (5.263%) JIRA
1 4 (5.263%) Trac
1 4 (5.263%) ClearCase
2 2 (2.632%) TestDirector
2 2 (2.632%) Eclipse
General
1 24 (31.58%) Telecoms
2 4 (5.263%) Electronics
3 3 (3.947%) Banking
3 3 (3.947%) French Language
3 3 (3.947%) Spanish Language
4 2 (2.632%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.316%) Finance
5 1 (1.316%) Billing
5 1 (1.316%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (18.42%) Network Engineer
2 9 (11.84%) Analyst
3 7 (9.211%) Consultant
3 7 (9.211%) IT Support
3 7 (9.211%) VoIP Engineer
4 6 (7.895%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (7.895%) Support Analyst
4 6 (7.895%) Support Engineer
4 6 (7.895%) Applications Consultant
5 5 (6.579%) Desktop Support
5 5 (6.579%) Developer
5 5 (6.579%) Build Engineer
5 5 (6.579%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.579%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (6.579%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (6.579%) Deployment Engineer
5 5 (6.579%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.263%) Software Developer
7 3 (3.947%) Architect
7 3 (3.947%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.947%) Streaming Media
2 2 (2.632%) CMDB
2 2 (2.632%) Derivative
2 2 (2.632%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.316%) NHS
3 1 (1.316%) Open Source
3 1 (1.316%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.316%) Clustering
3 1 (1.316%) IVR
3 1 (1.316%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.316%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.316%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.79%) Windows
2 9 (11.84%) Windows XP
2 9 (11.84%) Linux
2 9 (11.84%) Windows 7
3 7 (9.211%) Mac OS X
3 7 (9.211%) Windows Vista
4 6 (7.895%) UNIX
5 4 (5.263%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (2.632%) CentOS
6 2 (2.632%) Solaris
7 1 (1.316%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (19.74%) Migration
2 9 (11.84%) Service Delivery
3 5 (6.579%) ITIL
3 5 (6.579%) Project Management
3 5 (6.579%) Network Planning
3 5 (6.579%) Incident Management
4 4 (5.263%) Configuration Management
4 4 (5.263%) Data Modelling
5 3 (3.947%) B2B
5 3 (3.947%) Service Management
5 3 (3.947%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (3.947%) Release Management
5 3 (3.947%) Time Management
5 3 (3.947%) Project Planning
6 2 (2.632%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (2.632%) Network Design
6 2 (2.632%) Performance Management
6 2 (2.632%) Test Scripting
6 2 (2.632%) Software Deployment
6 2 (2.632%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.211%) C
2 4 (5.263%) Python
2 4 (5.263%) JavaScript
2 4 (5.263%) Embedded C
3 2 (2.632%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.632%) Perl
3 2 (2.632%) SQL
4 1 (1.316%) Java
4 1 (1.316%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 14 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (9.211%) CCNA
4 7 (9.211%) HP APS
5 6 (7.895%) CCNP
6 5 (6.579%) Degree
7 3 (3.947%) PMP
7 3 (3.947%) PMI Certification
7 3 (3.947%) JNCIA
7 3 (3.947%) JNCIS
7 3 (3.947%) JNCIP
8 2 (2.632%) BC Cleared
8 2 (2.632%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.632%) CCIE
9 1 (1.316%) CCIP
9 1 (1.316%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.316%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.632%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.947%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.316%) XenApp
2 1 (1.316%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (9.211%) OpenView
2 2 (2.632%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (27.63%) Cisco
2 14 (18.42%) HP
3 12 (15.79%) Citrix
4 9 (11.84%) BT
4 9 (11.84%) Juniper
5 6 (7.895%) Dell
6 5 (6.579%) Nokia
6 5 (6.579%) Aastra
6 5 (6.579%) 3Com
7 4 (5.263%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.632%) VMware
8 2 (2.632%) Cramer
8 2 (2.632%) Altiris
8 2 (2.632%) Twitter
8 2 (2.632%) Remedy
8 2 (2.632%) Ericsson
8 2 (2.632%) Oracle
9 1 (1.316%) Sun
9 1 (1.316%) Avaya
9 1 (1.316%) CheckPoint