DSL Contracts in England

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DSL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DSL over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 629 746
Rank change year-on-year +102 +117 -135
Contract jobs citing DSL 15 24 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.048% 0.052%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% 0.39% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 30
10th Percentile £439 - £190
25th Percentile £481 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -1.71% -4.49%
75th Percentile £582 £680 £593
90th Percentile £582 £846 £597
UK median daily rate £566 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -1.57% -1.71% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £19.65 £19.93 -
25th Percentile £21.38 £22.06 -
Median hourly rate £24.50 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £46.13 £30.56 -
90th Percentile £58.95 £32.78 -
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £26.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +19.32% +12.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

DSL 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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,012 6,158 7,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.48% 12.21% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,022 4,045 5,187
10th Percentile £206 £231 £220
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.42%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 439 303
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.35 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +112.54% -21.29% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.73
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% -0.88%

DSL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DSL in England

DSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DSL in England

DSL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DSL in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DSL in England

DSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DSL in England

DSL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DSL in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DSL in England

DSL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DSL within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England +36 7 £582 -14.41% 2
North West +23 7 £582 -11.67% 1
South East +18 6 £500 -13.04% 4
London +94 1 £250 -51.22% 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
DSL
UK

DSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) WAN
2 4 (26.67%) BGP
2 4 (26.67%) Ethernet
2 4 (26.67%) LAN
2 4 (26.67%) MPLS
2 4 (26.67%) OSPF
3 3 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) IPsec
3 3 (20.00%) SAN
3 3 (20.00%) TACACS
3 3 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 3 (20.00%) Wireless
4 2 (13.33%) 3G
4 2 (13.33%) 4G
4 2 (13.33%) 5G
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (13.33%) FCoE
4 2 (13.33%) Internet
4 2 (13.33%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) JIRA
2 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Finance
3 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (13.33%) Banking
6 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Build Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Design Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Scrum Master
5 1 (6.67%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
5 1 (6.67%) Real Time Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Public Cloud
1 7 (46.67%) Virtual Team
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (6.67%) IoT
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
1 9 (60.00%) Unix
2 8 (53.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (53.33%) Project Delivery
1 8 (53.33%) Server Building
2 7 (46.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Adaptive Security
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Information Management
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
4 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (13.33%) Process Management
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) WAN Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Ruby
2 1 (6.67%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) BC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (13.33%) CCNA
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) CCDP
3 1 (6.67%) CCIP
3 1 (6.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Progress Chef
2 7 (46.67%) Ansible
2 7 (46.67%) CFEngine
2 7 (46.67%) PowerBroker
2 7 (46.67%) Puppet
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Atlassian
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco
2 4 (26.67%) Juniper
3 2 (13.33%) ADVA
3 2 (13.33%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (13.33%) F5
3 2 (13.33%) Forcepoint
3 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.67%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (6.67%) Nokia
4 1 (6.67%) Nokia Networks
4 1 (6.67%) Tellabs