xDSL Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

xDSL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring xDSL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 364 369
Rank change year-on-year -110 +5 +57
Contract jobs citing xDSL 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.020% 0.006%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.10% 0.15% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £350 £370 -
25th Percentile £351 £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.06% - -
75th Percentile £353 £410 -
90th Percentile £353 £416 -
UK median daily rate £352 £400 -
% change year-on-year -12.06% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £19.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

xDSL 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 2,938 2,047 2,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.46% 13.44% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,626 1,274 1,424
10th Percentile £210 £200 £213
25th Percentile £350 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -9.30% +9.89%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £640 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £478 £505
% change year-on-year +4.69% -5.43% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 131 226
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.90 £18.50 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.14 £42.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -38.49% -25.89% -0.26%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.85 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.11 £43.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -36.95% -15.69% -9.72%

xDSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing xDSL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

xDSL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

xDSL
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing xDSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing xDSL

xDSL
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing xDSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing xDSL

xDSL
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 xDSL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
East of England - 3 £352 - 9
xDSL
UK

xDSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) 4G
1 3 (100.00%) 5G
1 3 (100.00%) Broadband
1 3 (100.00%) IPv4
1 3 (100.00%) IPv6
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) PPP
2 2 (66.67%) UPnP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Broadband Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Issue Tracking
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker