DSL Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring DSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DSL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 1.64% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 27 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 21.31% 25.00% 18.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 18
10th Percentile £209 £182 £188
25th Percentile £213 £213 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £220 £394
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -44.13% -1.56%
75th Percentile £300 £309 £478
90th Percentile £438 £440 £488
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +22.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £48.56 -
East of England median hourly rate £49.75 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -9.55% -15.38% +30.00%

DSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DSL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

DSL job vacancy trend in Suffolk

DSL
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing DSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing DSL

DSL
Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing DSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing DSL

DSL
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DSL within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Ipswich - 1 - -
DSL
East of England

DSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Full Text Search
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash