DWDM Contracts in the City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) London / City of London
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	-	164	203
Contract jobs citing DWDM	0	1	2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London	-	0.030%	0.035%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	-	0.21%	0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted	0	0	2
Median daily rate	-	-	£330
UK excluding London median daily rate	£430	£300	£323
% change year-on-year	+43.33%	-6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.00	-	-

DWDM is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills City of London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	340	471	737
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London	10.42%	13.99%	12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	262	370	549
Median daily rate	£427	£463	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-7.67%	+12.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£203	£288	£290
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£365	£340
% change year-on-year	+2.73%	+7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	10	7	24
Median hourly rate	£24.86	£19.00	£17.98
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+30.84%	+5.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.40	£17.50	£14.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£30.00	£25.20	£32.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£31.50	£24.00
% change year-on-year	-4.76%	+31.25%

DWDM
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the City of London citing DWDM as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.