DSL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 448 497
Rank change year-on-year +68 +49 -80
Contract jobs citing DSL 13 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.046% 0.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.31% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 8
10th Percentile £493 £404 -
25th Percentile £538 £544 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £659 £190
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +246.78% -40.63%
75th Percentile - £719 £438
90th Percentile £582 £839 £486
UK median daily rate £582 £575 £585
% change year-on-year +1.22% -1.71% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £19.65 £19.93 -
25th Percentile £21.38 £22.06 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £26.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +19.32% +12.82%
75th Percentile £46.13 £30.56 £23.00
90th Percentile £58.95 £32.78 -
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £26.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +19.32% +12.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,460 3,605 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.64% 14.97% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,989 2,287 2,646
10th Percentile £205 £207 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £540
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 328 235
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.44
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.45
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £19.00 £27.88
% change year-on-year +102.63% -31.84% +1.36%

DSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DSL 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 DSL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DSL 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 DSL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DSL in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DSL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DSL in the UK excluding London

DSL
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 DSL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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 of England +30 7 £582 -14.41% 2
North West +27 7 £582 -11.67% 1
South East +21 6 £500 -13.04% 4
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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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) WAN
2 4 (30.77%) BGP
2 4 (30.77%) Ethernet
2 4 (30.77%) LAN
2 4 (30.77%) MPLS
2 4 (30.77%) OSPF
3 3 (23.08%) DNS
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall
3 3 (23.08%) IPsec
3 3 (23.08%) TACACS
3 3 (23.08%) Unified Communications
3 3 (23.08%) Wireless
4 2 (15.38%) 4G
4 2 (15.38%) 5G
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (15.38%) DDNS
4 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 2 (15.38%) EIGRP
4 2 (15.38%) FCoE
4 2 (15.38%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
1 7 (53.85%) JIRA
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Build Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Design Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
5 1 (7.69%) Real Time Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Public Cloud
1 7 (53.85%) Virtual Team
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (7.69%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
1 9 (69.23%) Unix
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (61.54%) Project Delivery
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (53.85%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) Server Building
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Adaptive Security
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) Information Management
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
4 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
4 2 (15.38%) Process Management
4 2 (15.38%) WAN Optimisation
4 2 (15.38%) Web Filtering
5 1 (7.69%) Communications Security
5 1 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) BC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (15.38%) CCNA
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) CCDP
3 1 (7.69%) CCIP
3 1 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (7.69%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Ansible
1 7 (53.85%) CFEngine
1 7 (53.85%) PowerBroker
1 7 (53.85%) Progress Chef
1 7 (53.85%) Puppet
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Atlassian
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Juniper
3 2 (15.38%) ADVA
3 2 (15.38%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (15.38%) F5
3 2 (15.38%) Forcepoint
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
3 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (7.69%) Nokia
4 1 (7.69%) Nokia Networks
4 1 (7.69%) Tellabs