DSL Contracts in England

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring DSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DSL over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 545 619
Rank change year-on-year +58 +74 +135
Contract jobs citing DSL 7 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.021% 0.032%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.17% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £320 £352
25th Percentile £468 £463 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +17.65% -27.35%
75th Percentile £503 £525 £694
90th Percentile - - £837
UK median daily rate £485 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -0.51% +14.71% -27.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £19.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +228.95% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £19.50 £22.50
90th Percentile - - £24.30
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +228.95% - -13.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

DSL 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 4,827 6,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.73% 12.93% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,032 2,880 3,915
10th Percentile £235 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £355 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.38% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 393 392
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.67 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £38.41 £45.88 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +121.59% -17.18%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £62.55
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +114.29% -27.88%

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
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
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 2 July 2025. 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
London +40 3 £485 +94.00% 28
South East +49 2 - - 4
Midlands +6 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 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 2 (28.57%) Anypoint
1 2 (28.57%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) BigCommerce
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Run
2 2 (28.57%) Datadog
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) AMQP
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) CircleCI
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Architect
2 2 (28.57%) GCP Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Camel
1 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
1 2 (28.57%) JWT
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) SOAP
1 2 (28.57%) VML
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (14.29%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) B2B
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Acquisition
3 2 (28.57%) Data Enrichment
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) DataWeave
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
3 2 (28.57%) Puppet
3 2 (28.57%) Salt
4 1 (14.29%) Kibana
4 1 (14.29%) logstash
4 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) MuleSoft
1 2 (28.57%) New Relic
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
1 2 (28.57%) Sitecore
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk