DWDM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DWDM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DWDM over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 451 477
Rank change year-on-year +78 +26 -63
Contract jobs citing DWDM 12 5 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.021% 0.091%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 0.14% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 19
10th Percentile £425 £230 £271
25th Percentile - £279 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% +7.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £469 £388 £455
90th Percentile £588 - £750
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £375
% change year-on-year +11.11% +20.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £20.75 £24.50 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £32.50 £25.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +36.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

DWDM is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,339 3,500 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.27% 14.89% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,213 2,635
10th Percentile £200 £213 £185
25th Percentile £343 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £544
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 323 238
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

DWDM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DWDM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DWDM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DWDM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DWDM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DWDM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North of England +36 9 £430 +14.67%
Yorkshire - 9 £430 -
South East +9 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
DWDM
UK

DWDM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (25.00%) SDH
1 3 (25.00%) SONET
2 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (8.33%) Internet
3 1 (8.33%) MPLS
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) z/OS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Hardware Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) LPAR
1 9 (75.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (8.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (8.33%) Inventory Management
3 1 (8.33%) Network Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Network Management
3 1 (8.33%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (8.33%) Network Planning
3 1 (8.33%) Order Management
3 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) CLIST
1 9 (75.00%) JCL
1 9 (75.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) BC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 9 (75.00%) Microcode
1 9 (75.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 2 (16.67%) Ciena
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Huawei
2 2 (16.67%) Juniper
2 2 (16.67%) Nokia
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft