The first table below looks at the demand for DSL skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DSL over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
Rank 493 540 561
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +21
Contract jobs citing DSL 37 38 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.080% 0.065% 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.546% 0.417% 0.342%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 11
Average daily rate £325 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £146 £140 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £455 £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £304 £140 £270
% change year-on-year
+116.96% -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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6782 9103 7893
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.62% 15.62% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3331 4145 3588
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
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 £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 606 785
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%

DSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

DSL Daily Rate Trend

DSL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DSL within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

DSL Hourly Rate Trend

DSL
Top 22 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 UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +45 35 £325 -13.33%
London +16 18 £400 -1.05%
South East +24 8 £450 +221.42%
Berkshire +18 5 £450 -
East of England +17 5 £325 +18.18%
Essex - 4 £325 -
North West +16 3 £288 -
City of London +5 3 £165 -60.24%
Knutsford - 3 £288 -
Brentwood - 3 £325 -
Cheshire - 3 £288 -
Surrey +24 2 - -
Reading +12 2 - -
Bracknell - 2 £450 -
Weybridge - 2 - -
Slough -11 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Peterborough - 1 - -
Brighton - 1 - -

DSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 27 (33.75%) Cisco
2 26 (32.50%) TCP/IP
3 25 (31.25%) Telecoms
4 23 (28.75%) LAN
5 22 (27.50%) WAN
6 20 (25.00%) ADSL
7 18 (22.50%) MPLS
8 17 (21.25%) HP
9 15 (18.75%) Windows
9 15 (18.75%) Citrix
9 15 (18.75%) Migration
9 15 (18.75%) LLU
10 14 (17.50%) Security Cleared
10 14 (17.50%) Ethernet
11 13 (16.25%) VoIP
11 13 (16.25%) Firewall
11 13 (16.25%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (16.25%) Wireless
12 12 (15.00%) BT
12 12 (15.00%) IP Telephony
12 12 (15.00%) SC Cleared
12 12 (15.00%) Windows 7
12 12 (15.00%) Service Delivery
13 11 (13.75%) BGP
14 10 (12.50%) OSPF
15 9 (11.25%) Juniper
15 9 (11.25%) SNMP
15 9 (11.25%) VPN
15 9 (11.25%) Linux
15 9 (11.25%) MS Office

DSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (8.750%) Application Packaging
2 4 (5.000%) HTML
2 4 (5.000%) CGI
3 1 (1.250%) FpML
3 1 (1.250%) Spring
3 1 (1.250%) XML
3 1 (1.250%) XSLT
3 1 (1.250%) Drools
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.750%) MS Exchange
1 3 (3.750%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.250%) CMS
2 1 (1.250%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (1.250%) EPiServer CMS
Applications
1 9 (11.25%) MS Office
2 6 (7.500%) MS Excel
3 3 (3.750%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.500%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 26 (32.50%) TCP/IP
2 23 (28.75%) LAN
3 22 (27.50%) WAN
4 20 (25.00%) ADSL
5 18 (22.50%) MPLS
6 15 (18.75%) LLU
7 14 (17.50%) Ethernet
8 13 (16.25%) VoIP
8 13 (16.25%) Firewall
8 13 (16.25%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (16.25%) Wireless
9 12 (15.00%) IP Telephony
10 11 (13.75%) BGP
11 10 (12.50%) OSPF
12 9 (11.25%) SNMP
12 9 (11.25%) VPN
12 9 (11.25%) Broadband
13 7 (8.750%) SDH
14 6 (7.500%) PBX
14 6 (7.500%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.750%) MySQL
2 1 (1.250%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (1.250%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (1.250%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.250%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (5.000%) ClearCase
1 4 (5.000%) JIRA
1 4 (5.000%) Trac
2 2 (2.500%) Eclipse
2 2 (2.500%) TestDirector
General
1 25 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 4 (5.000%) Electronics
3 3 (3.750%) French Language
3 3 (3.750%) Spanish Language
3 3 (3.750%) Finance
4 2 (2.500%) Banking
4 2 (2.500%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.250%) Retail
5 1 (1.250%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (16.25%) Analyst
2 12 (15.00%) Network Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) VoIP Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Build Engineer
5 7 (8.750%) IT Support
5 7 (8.750%) Deployment Engineer
5 7 (8.750%) Consultant
6 6 (7.500%) IT Support Analyst
6 6 (7.500%) Applications Consultant
6 6 (7.500%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.250%) Desktop Support
7 5 (6.250%) Developer
7 5 (6.250%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.250%) Cisco Engineer
7 5 (6.250%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (6.250%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.000%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.750%) Architect
9 3 (3.750%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.000%) CMDB
2 3 (3.750%) Fat Client
2 3 (3.750%) Thin Client
2 3 (3.750%) Blackberry
2 3 (3.750%) Streaming Media
3 1 (1.250%) CCTV
3 1 (1.250%) Derivative
3 1 (1.250%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.250%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.250%) Clustering
3 1 (1.250%) IVR
3 1 (1.250%) Open Source
3 1 (1.250%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.250%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.75%) Windows
2 12 (15.00%) Windows 7
3 9 (11.25%) Linux
3 9 (11.25%) Windows XP
4 7 (8.750%) Mac OS X
4 7 (8.750%) Windows Vista
5 6 (7.500%) UNIX
6 4 (5.000%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (3.750%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (3.750%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.500%) CentOS
8 2 (2.500%) Solaris
9 1 (1.250%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.75%) Migration
2 12 (15.00%) Service Delivery
3 6 (7.500%) Service Management
3 6 (7.500%) Configuration Management
4 5 (6.250%) Project Management
4 5 (6.250%) ITIL
4 5 (6.250%) Incident Management
5 4 (5.000%) Performance Management
5 4 (5.000%) Data Modelling
6 3 (3.750%) B2B
6 3 (3.750%) BCP
6 3 (3.750%) Business Continuity
6 3 (3.750%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (3.750%) ITSM
6 3 (3.750%) Problem Management
6 3 (3.750%) Release Management
6 3 (3.750%) Time Management
6 3 (3.750%) Network Planning
6 3 (3.750%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (2.500%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.500%) C
2 4 (5.000%) JavaScript
2 4 (5.000%) Python
2 4 (5.000%) Embedded C
3 1 (1.250%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.250%) Bash shell
3 1 (1.250%) Perl
3 1 (1.250%) SQL
3 1 (1.250%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (8.750%) CCNA
4 7 (8.750%) HP APS
5 6 (7.500%) CCNP
6 5 (6.250%) Degree
7 3 (3.750%) PMP
7 3 (3.750%) PMI Certification
7 3 (3.750%) JNCIA
7 3 (3.750%) JNCIS
7 3 (3.750%) JNCIP
8 2 (2.500%) CCIE
8 2 (2.500%) BC Cleared
8 2 (2.500%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.250%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.250%) HNC
9 1 (1.250%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.250%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.750%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.750%) Microsoft App-V
1 3 (3.750%) Xen
1 3 (3.750%) NLBS
1 3 (3.750%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (3.750%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.250%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (8.750%) OpenView
2 3 (3.750%) WSUS
3 2 (2.500%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (33.75%) Cisco
2 17 (21.25%) HP
3 15 (18.75%) Citrix
4 12 (15.00%) BT
5 9 (11.25%) Juniper
6 7 (8.750%) Microsoft
7 6 (7.500%) Dell
7 6 (7.500%) Aastra
8 5 (6.250%) Nokia
8 5 (6.250%) 3Com
9 4 (5.000%) VMware
9 4 (5.000%) CheckPoint
10 2 (2.500%) Remedy
10 2 (2.500%) Oracle
10 2 (2.500%) Ericsson
10 2 (2.500%) Altiris
10 2 (2.500%) Twitter
10 2 (2.500%) Cramer
11 1 (1.250%) Huawei
11 1 (1.250%) StreamServe