DWDM Contracts in South Yorkshire

Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 47 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing DWDM 4 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.08% 1.97% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.63% 12.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £297 £425 -
25th Percentile £314 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £430 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.77% - -
75th Percentile £374 £469 -
90th Percentile £390 £588 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £345 £430 -
% change year-on-year -19.77% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

DWDM 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 71 74 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.09% 16.16% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 53 48
10th Percentile £185 £233 £194
25th Percentile £271 £430 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% -2.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £403 £459 £475
% change year-on-year -12.25% -3.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 36
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £9.80
Median hourly rate - - £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.74%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £18.27 £10.63
% change year-on-year +124.41% +71.87% -41.58%

DWDM
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing DWDM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for DWDM in South Yorkshire

DWDM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DWDM in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for DWDM in South Yorkshire

DWDM
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DWDM in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DWDM in South Yorkshire

DWDM
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DWDM within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Sheffield +3 4 £345 -19.77% 1
DWDM
Yorkshire

DWDM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (25.00%) LPAR
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Hardware Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) CLIST
2 1 (25.00%) JCL
2 1 (25.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) JNCIA
1 2 (50.00%) JNCIS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (25.00%) Microcode
1 1 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Arista
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) IBM