Tactical Data Link Contracts in the UK excluding London

Tactical Data Link
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Tactical Data Link skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Tactical Data Link over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 440 495
Rank change year-on-year +58 +55 -71
Contract jobs citing Tactical Data Link 8 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.013% 0.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 0.086% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £475 - £620
25th Percentile £487 - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - £775
75th Percentile £521 - £822
90th Percentile - - £861
UK median daily rate £514 £450 £775
% change year-on-year +14.22% -41.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £59.48 £40.17
25th Percentile - £60.15 £46.30
Median hourly rate - £63.19 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +20.35% +15.38%
75th Percentile - £68.14 £56.19
90th Percentile - £69.96 £57.50
UK median hourly rate - £63.19 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +20.93% +14.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Tactical Data Link 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 3,325 3,503 4,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.23% 14.99% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,900 2,204 2,624
10th Percentile £202 £209 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £449
Median % change year-on-year - +5.85% +12.19%
75th Percentile £600 £587 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -4.16% +3.30% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 318 236
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.88
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.22 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +153.28% -15.28% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.67 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.88
% change year-on-year +116.22% -33.63% -0.45%

Tactical Data Link
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tactical Data Link in the UK excluding London

Tactical Data Link
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Tactical Data Link in the UK excluding London

Tactical Data Link
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Tactical Data Link in the UK excluding London

Tactical Data Link
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 Tactical Data Link within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
South East - 6 £514 -
South West +12 2 - -
Tactical Data Link
UK

Tactical Data Link
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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Link 16
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Ada Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Ada Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) C++ Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) OO
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) OOD
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Situational Awareness
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Time Management
3 2 (25.00%) UML
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Ada
1 3 (37.50%) Ada 95
1 3 (37.50%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Degree