ADSL Contracts

Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 586 690
Rank change year-on-year +73 +104 +147
Contract jobs citing ADSL 6 14 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.032% 0.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.25% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 12
10th Percentile - £294 £159
25th Percentile - £375 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £425 £250
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +70.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile - £475 £425
90th Percentile - £538 £470
UK excluding London median daily rate £220 £413 £240
% change year-on-year -46.67% +71.88% +37.14%
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 excluding London 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

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ADSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ADSL in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADSL.

Daily rate trend for ADSL in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADSL.

Hourly rate trend for ADSL in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
UK excluding London +50 6 £220 -46.67% 5
England +54 5 £220 -48.24% 5
Yorkshire - 4 £220 -
North of England - 4 £220 - 1
Work from Home +44 1 - - 3
South East +42 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) PSTN
2 4 (66.67%) Broadband
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) DSL
4 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
4 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (16.67%) Internet
4 1 (16.67%) MPLS
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (16.67%) PPP
4 1 (16.67%) RIP
4 1 (16.67%) SDH
4 1 (16.67%) SNMP
4 1 (16.67%) TACACS
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) VoIP
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Help Desk Technician
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Monitoring Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Network Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Project Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) CCTV
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Process Management
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Bill of Materials
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (16.67%) Communications Security
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CCDP
3 1 (16.67%) CCIP
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) ADVA
3 1 (16.67%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Nokia