ADSL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ADSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ADSL over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 384 439
Rank change year-on-year +57 +55 +69
Contract jobs citing ADSL 7 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.048% 0.067%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% 0.29% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile - £251 £166
25th Percentile - £309 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £413 £240
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +71.88% +37.14%
75th Percentile £337 £509 £313
90th Percentile £547 £564 £425
UK median daily rate £220 £425 £250
% change year-on-year -48.24% +70.00% +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £13.75 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -14.06% -27.27%
75th Percentile £19.50 £15.38 £23.19
90th Percentile - £17.85 £29.83
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £13.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year +38.18% -14.06% -27.27%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

ADSL 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,977 3,409 3,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.48% 16.47% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,953 2,274
10th Percentile £194 £203 £210
25th Percentile £303 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 359 327
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.45 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.40 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% +110.53% -30.91%

ADSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ADSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ADSL in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADSL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ADSL in the UK excluding London

ADSL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADSL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ADSL in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADSL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ADSL in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADSL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Yorkshire - 4 £220 -
North of England - 4 £220 -
South East +36 2 £675 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1
ADSL
UK

ADSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) ThingWorx
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) PSTN
2 4 (57.14%) Broadband
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) DSL
4 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
4 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) IPsec
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) PPP
4 1 (14.29%) RIP
4 1 (14.29%) SNMP
4 1 (14.29%) TACACS
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Help Desk Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Monitoring Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Project Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) CCTV
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) IoT
3 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 1 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (14.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
3 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Process Management
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Communications Security
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) BC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) CCDP
3 1 (14.29%) CCIP
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) ADVA
3 1 (14.29%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Nokia