DWDM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 323 382 450
Rank change year-on-year +59 +68 +39
Contract jobs citing DWDM 11 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.058% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.56% 0.35% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 3
10th Percentile £366 £425 £230
25th Percentile £423 - £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £375
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +14.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £469 £388
90th Percentile £530 £588 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £16.70 -
25th Percentile - £20.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -
75th Percentile - £32.50 £25.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -6.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 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%

DWDM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
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 DWDM 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
North of England +11 9 £475 +10.47% 16
North West - 5 £500 - 7
Yorkshire +3 4 £345 -19.77% 7
South East +35 1 £463 - 26
East of England - 1 - - 12
DWDM
UK

DWDM
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:

Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (36.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Akamai
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) WAN
2 8 (72.73%) Network Security
3 7 (63.64%) Firewall
3 7 (63.64%) VPN
4 6 (54.55%) LAN
5 5 (45.45%) DNS
5 5 (45.45%) Ethernet
6 4 (36.36%) Internet
6 4 (36.36%) MPLS
7 3 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (27.27%) SD-WAN
7 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
7 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (27.27%) Wireless
8 2 (18.18%) BGP
8 2 (18.18%) IPsec
8 2 (18.18%) Multicast
8 2 (18.18%) OSPF
8 2 (18.18%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (18.18%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) NOC Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planner
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Network Capacity Planner
5 1 (9.09%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Network Planner
5 1 (9.09%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) 802.1X
1 2 (18.18%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) FMCG
1 1 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (9.09%) LPAR
1 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Network Architecture
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
2 2 (18.18%) Network Design
2 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (9.09%) Coaching
3 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 1 (9.09%) Hardware Maintenance
3 1 (9.09%) Network Planning
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (9.09%) Runbook
3 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
3 1 (9.09%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) CLIST
2 1 (9.09%) JCL
2 1 (9.09%) Perl
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (36.36%) CCNA
3 3 (27.27%) CCNP
3 3 (27.27%) Degree
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (18.18%) JNCIA
4 2 (18.18%) JNCIS
4 2 (18.18%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) CCDP
5 1 (9.09%) CCIE
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (9.09%) Microcode
1 1 (9.09%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) Arista
3 2 (18.18%) Aruba
3 2 (18.18%) HP
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat
4 1 (9.09%) Ciena
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) F5
4 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 1 (9.09%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) Juniper
4 1 (9.09%) McAfee
4 1 (9.09%) Nokia
4 1 (9.09%) Riverbed
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) Zscaler