The first table below looks at the demand for DSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DSL over the 3 months to 20 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 London 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
Rank 363 379 423
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +44
Contract jobs citing DSL 18 23 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.083% 0.086% 0.036%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.630% 0.627% 0.331%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 4
Average daily rate £400 £404 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.05% +24.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £304 £140 £270
% change year-on-year
+116.96% -48.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £20.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -26.19%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2856 3668 3325
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.16% 13.66% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1745 2236 1921
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £241 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 146 208
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £19.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% +16.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
DSL
England

DSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 20 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
City of London +12 3 £165 -60.24%
DSL
England

DSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 17 (56.67%) LAN
2 11 (36.67%) MPLS
3 10 (33.33%) WAN
3 10 (33.33%) Cisco
4 9 (30.00%) TCP/IP
4 9 (30.00%) Windows
4 9 (30.00%) Windows 7
5 8 (26.67%) HP
5 8 (26.67%) Juniper
5 8 (26.67%) SNMP
5 8 (26.67%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (23.33%) Wireless
6 7 (23.33%) Firewall
6 7 (23.33%) OpenView
6 7 (23.33%) Windows Vista
6 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
6 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
6 7 (23.33%) HP APS
6 7 (23.33%) Windows XP
6 7 (23.33%) Mac OS X
7 6 (20.00%) Ethernet
7 6 (20.00%) VPN
8 5 (16.67%) Gigabit Ethernet
8 5 (16.67%) 3Com
8 5 (16.67%) IPsec
8 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
8 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
8 5 (16.67%) BGP
8 5 (16.67%) RSVP
8 5 (16.67%) OSPF

DSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Application Development
1 1 (3.333%) XML
1 1 (3.333%) XSLT
1 1 (3.333%) FpML
1 1 (3.333%) Spring
1 1 (3.333%) Drools
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.667%) MS Exchange
1 2 (6.667%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (3.333%) CMS
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (3.333%) EPiServer CMS
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Office
2 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (56.67%) LAN
2 11 (36.67%) MPLS
3 10 (33.33%) WAN
4 9 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 8 (26.67%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (26.67%) SNMP
6 7 (23.33%) Firewall
6 7 (23.33%) Wireless
7 6 (20.00%) VPN
7 6 (20.00%) Ethernet
8 5 (16.67%) IPsec
8 5 (16.67%) OSPF
8 5 (16.67%) BGP
8 5 (16.67%) RSVP
8 5 (16.67%) Gigabit Ethernet
9 2 (6.667%) BIG-IP
9 2 (6.667%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (6.667%) IP Telephony
9 2 (6.667%) VoIP
10 1 (3.333%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.667%) MySQL
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (3.333%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.333%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Eclipse
General
1 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.00%) French Language
2 3 (10.00%) Spanish Language
3 1 (3.333%) Finance
3 1 (3.333%) Banking
3 1 (3.333%) Retail
3 1 (3.333%) Billing
3 1 (3.333%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Network Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) IT Support
4 6 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Desktop Support
5 5 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
7 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (6.667%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (6.667%) Network Designer
7 2 (6.667%) Designer
8 1 (3.333%) IP Engineer
8 1 (3.333%) IP Network Engineer
8 1 (3.333%) Banking Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Thin Client
1 2 (6.667%) Blackberry
1 2 (6.667%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.333%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.333%) IVR
2 1 (3.333%) CCTV
2 1 (3.333%) Derivative
2 1 (3.333%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Windows
1 9 (30.00%) Windows 7
2 7 (23.33%) Windows XP
2 7 (23.33%) Mac OS X
2 7 (23.33%) Windows Vista
3 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (6.667%) Linux
4 1 (3.333%) OS/2
4 1 (3.333%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (10.00%) B2B
3 3 (10.00%) Service Management
4 2 (6.667%) BCP
4 2 (6.667%) Problem Management
4 2 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (6.667%) ITSM
4 2 (6.667%) Business Continuity
4 2 (6.667%) Performance Management
4 2 (6.667%) E-Commerce
5 1 (3.333%) Data Protection
5 1 (3.333%) Software Architecture
5 1 (3.333%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.333%) Content Management
5 1 (3.333%) Time Management
5 1 (3.333%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (3.333%) Project Planning
5 1 (3.333%) Project Management
5 1 (3.333%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (3.333%) Java
2 1 (3.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
1 7 (23.33%) HP APS
2 3 (10.00%) JNCIA
2 3 (10.00%) JNCIS
2 3 (10.00%) JNCIP
3 2 (6.667%) CCNP
3 2 (6.667%) CCNA
3 2 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.333%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.667%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.667%) Xen
1 2 (6.667%) NLBS
1 2 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (6.667%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) OpenView
2 2 (6.667%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Cisco
2 8 (26.67%) HP
2 8 (26.67%) Juniper
3 5 (16.67%) Nokia
3 5 (16.67%) 3Com
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.667%) Citrix
5 2 (6.667%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.667%) VMware
5 2 (6.667%) Oracle
5 2 (6.667%) Twitter
6 1 (3.333%) StreamServe
6 1 (3.333%) EPiServer
6 1 (3.333%) Cerillion
6 1 (3.333%) BT
6 1 (3.333%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (3.333%) Avaya