Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ADSL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ADSL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 696 830
Rank change year-on-year +112 +134 -170
Contract jobs citing ADSL 14 23 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.038% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.25% 0.31% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 12
10th Percentile £294 £159 -
25th Percentile £375 £176 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £250 £280
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -10.71% -45.23%
75th Percentile £475 £425 £419
90th Percentile £538 £470 £475
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £240 £175
% change year-on-year +71.88% +37.14% -47.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.75 £16.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% -27.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £15.38 £23.19 £23.00
90th Percentile £17.85 £29.83 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.75 £16.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -14.06% -27.27% +12.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

ADSL 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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

ADSL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ADSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ADSL in the UK

ADSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADSL.

Daily rate trend for ADSL in the UK

ADSL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADSL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ADSL in the UK

ADSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADSL.

Hourly rate trend for ADSL in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADSL within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +119 14 £425 +70.00% 16
UK excluding London +59 10 £413 +71.88% 17
Work from Home +130 7 £450 +164.71% 6
West Midlands +35 7 £600 - 1
Midlands +28 7 £600 - 1
London +98 4 £425 +9.68% 3
South East +22 2 - - 5
South West +19 1 £225 +32.35% 3

ADSL
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:

Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) WhatsApp
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) LAN
2 9 (64.29%) WAN
3 7 (50.00%) PSTN
4 5 (35.71%) Firewall
4 5 (35.71%) Internet
5 4 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (28.57%) Ethernet
5 4 (28.57%) MPLS
5 4 (28.57%) VDSL
5 4 (28.57%) Wireless
5 4 (28.57%) WLAN
6 2 (14.29%) DSL
7 1 (7.14%) BGP
7 1 (7.14%) EIGRP
7 1 (7.14%) OSPF
7 1 (7.14%) PPP
7 1 (7.14%) RIP
7 1 (7.14%) SNMP
7 1 (7.14%) TACACS
7 1 (7.14%) VoIP
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Network Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Coordinator
3 3 (21.43%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (7.14%) Design Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Real Time Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Change Management
1 4 (28.57%) DevSecOps
1 4 (28.57%) Migration
1 4 (28.57%) Preventative Maintenance
1 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Change Control
2 3 (21.43%) CRM
2 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
2 3 (21.43%) Data Entry
2 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Order Management
2 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery Management
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (21.43%) Supplier Relationship Management
2 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (21.43%) Use Case
2 3 (21.43%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) BC Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (14.29%) CCNA
3 2 (14.29%) CCNP
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CCDP
4 1 (7.14%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) SLA
2 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Cisco
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Aruba
2 4 (28.57%) Blue Coat
2 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 4 (28.57%) Fortinet
2 4 (28.57%) Infoblox
2 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 3 (21.43%) BT
3 3 (21.43%) Openreach
4 1 (7.14%) ADVA
4 1 (7.14%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Meraki