ADSL Contracts

Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ADSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ADSL over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 633 841
Rank change year-on-year +75 +208 -68
Contract jobs citing ADSL 8 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.026% 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 9
10th Percentile £117 £239 £138
25th Percentile £132 £263 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £157 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year -60.73% +14.29% +8.53%
75th Percentile £198 £425 £475
90th Percentile £222 £525 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £157 £300 £325
% change year-on-year -47.64% -7.69% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £17.80 £13.70 -
25th Percentile £18.06 £15.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +12.82%
75th Percentile £20.95 £24.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £21.82 £27.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

ADSL falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,570 6,633 10,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.90% 13.30% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,660 4,214 6,741
10th Percentile £227 £228 £243
25th Percentile £375 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +9.89% +1.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 313 362
10th Percentile £14.16 £16.55 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.37 £22.75 £17.56
Median hourly rate £50.25 £56.49 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +36.90% +83.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £61.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.67 £70.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -0.26% +27.78% +119.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ADSL in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ADSL in the UK

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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 5 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 20 September 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 +69 8 £157 -60.73% 4
UK excluding London +44 8 £157 -47.64% 4
South East +28 7 £132 -68.88% 1
Work from Home +85 1 - -
South West +16 1 £225 +55.17%

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) WAN
2 6 (75.00%) LAN
3 5 (62.50%) Firewall
4 4 (50.00%) MPLS
4 4 (50.00%) VPN
4 4 (50.00%) Wireless
5 3 (37.50%) DSL
5 3 (37.50%) Ethernet
6 2 (25.00%) GSM
6 2 (25.00%) Internet
6 2 (25.00%) ISDN
6 2 (25.00%) LTE
7 1 (12.50%) BGP
7 1 (12.50%) IPsec
7 1 (12.50%) Network Security
7 1 (12.50%) OSPF
7 1 (12.50%) PPP
7 1 (12.50%) RIP
7 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
7 1 (12.50%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Design Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Real Time Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (25.00%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
2 1 (12.50%) Communications Security
2 1 (12.50%) Data Security
2 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Network Management
2 1 (12.50%) Process Management
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) BC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) CCDP
3 1 (12.50%) CCIP
3 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) ADVA
3 1 (12.50%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki