SDH Contracts in London

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring SDH skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SDH 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 348 386 483
Rank change year-on-year +38 +97 +108
Contract jobs citing SDH 5 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.028% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.29% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £308 - £410
25th Percentile £311 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -36.25% -6.98% +22.86%
75th Percentile £323 - £611
90th Percentile £324 - £632
England median daily rate £450 £650 £450
% change year-on-year -30.77% +44.44% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
England median hourly rate - £30.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -18.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

SDH 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%

SDH
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

SDH
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

SDH
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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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDH within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East London - 1 £313 - 2
SDH
England

SDH
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 4 (80.00%) MPLS
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) EIGRP
2 3 (60.00%) Ethernet
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) VoIP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) DWDM
4 1 (20.00%) Junos
4 1 (20.00%) RIP
4 1 (20.00%) SONET
4 1 (20.00%) VPLS
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) OSS Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) EMC Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Fault Management Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) OSS Expert
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Data Enrichment
1 2 (40.00%) Fault Management
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Network Management
1 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Server Management
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) HNC
1 1 (20.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) OpenView
1 1 (20.00%) OPNET
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) EMC
1 2 (40.00%) Nokia
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Ericsson
2 1 (20.00%) Hitachi
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Nortel
2 1 (20.00%) Virgin Media