DSL Contracts in London

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 390 483
Rank change year-on-year +42 +93 +88
Contract jobs citing DSL 5 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.006% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.058% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £458 £225 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £250 £513
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% -51.22% -12.39%
75th Percentile £488 £275 £694
90th Percentile - - £950
England median daily rate £475 £566 £575
% change year-on-year -16.08% -1.57% -1.71%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DSL in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DSL in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DSL in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) BigCommerce
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Run
1 2 (40.00%) Datadog
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) 802.11
1 3 (60.00%) Broadband
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DOCSIS
1 3 (60.00%) GPON
1 3 (60.00%) IPv4
1 3 (60.00%) IPv6
1 3 (60.00%) PPP
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (60.00%) VoIP
1 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) Terragrunt
2 1 (20.00%) Gerrit
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) GCP Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) 802.1X
1 3 (60.00%) Yocto
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) VML
3 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (20.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (60.00%) Digital TV
1 3 (60.00%) STB
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (20.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) B2B
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Acquisition
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Observability
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
1 2 (40.00%) Salt
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
1 2 (40.00%) New Relic
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
1 2 (40.00%) Sitecore
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk