DSL Contracts in the North of England

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 211 245
Rank change year-on-year +34 +34 -61
Contract jobs citing DSL 7 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.10% 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.16% 0.88% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £566 £564 -
25th Percentile - £648 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £680 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% - -
75th Percentile - £797 -
90th Percentile £583 £841 -
England median daily rate £582 £588 £585
% change year-on-year -0.94% +0.43% -2.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 602 684 873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.64% 11.72% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 472 605
10th Percentile £200 £201 £181
25th Percentile £313 £325 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £610 £571 £550
90th Percentile £748 £675 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 48 28
10th Percentile £13.42 - £11.10
25th Percentile £17.72 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.35% -6.21%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.13
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £47.17
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

DSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DSL in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for DSL in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DSL in the North of England

DSL
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 27 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 West +19 7 £582 -11.67% 1
DSL
England

DSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Build Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 7 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Unix
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 7 (100.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) CFEngine
1 7 (100.00%) PowerBroker
1 7 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 7 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Atlassian