SDH Contracts in London

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SDH skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDH over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 488 594
Rank change year-on-year +102 +106 -128
Contract jobs citing SDH 5 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.028% 0.037% 0.018%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 0.37% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £410 £374
25th Percentile - £444 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +22.86% +1.74%
75th Percentile - £611 £491
90th Percentile - £632 £511
England median daily rate £650 £450 £350
% change year-on-year +44.44% +28.57% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £23.55 - £25.73
25th Percentile £24.00 - £26.06
Median hourly rate £28.50 - £27.50
75th Percentile £33.75 - £29.13
90th Percentile - - £29.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% +44.74%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

SDH 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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,726 2,680 3,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.67% 9.91% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,149 1,888 2,552
10th Percentile £213 £256 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £559 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +1.59% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £739 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 53 83
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.22 £20.91
25th Percentile £18.64 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £46.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +31.43% -
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.52
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +112.54% -21.29% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDH in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SDH in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SDH 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Ethernet
2 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (60.00%) DWDM
4 2 (40.00%) BGP
4 2 (40.00%) Broadband
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
4 2 (40.00%) Firewall
4 2 (40.00%) Internet
4 2 (40.00%) IPsec
4 2 (40.00%) MPLS
4 2 (40.00%) OSPF
4 2 (40.00%) PPP
4 2 (40.00%) SNMP
4 2 (40.00%) TACACS
4 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (40.00%) VoIP
4 2 (40.00%) VPN
4 2 (40.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Optical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Network Design
2 2 (40.00%) Order Management
2 2 (40.00%) Process Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (40.00%) CCDP
1 2 (40.00%) CCIP
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Juniper
1 4 (80.00%) Nokia
2 3 (60.00%) Ciena
3 2 (40.00%) Alcatel-Lucent