Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 694 805
Rank change year-on-year +111 +111 -137
Contract jobs citing DSL 15 25 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.042% 0.050%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.27% 0.34% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 34
10th Percentile £425 £400 £190
25th Percentile £500 £402 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £588 £585
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.43% -2.50%
75th Percentile - £704 £593
90th Percentile £582 £845 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £582 £659 £190
% change year-on-year -11.67% +246.78% -40.63%
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 excluding London 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

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

DSL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DSL in the UK

DSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DSL in the UK

DSL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DSL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DSL in the UK

DSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DSL in the UK

DSL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DSL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DSL in the UK

DSL
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 DSL within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +117 14 £582 -0.94% 10
UK excluding London +67 13 £582 -11.67% 9
Work from Home +129 8 £582 +41.09% 5
North of England +34 7 £582 -14.41% 2
North West +19 7 £582 -11.67% 1
South East +29 6 £500 -13.04% 4
London +91 1 £250 -58.33% 1

DSL
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) WAN
2 4 (26.67%) BGP
2 4 (26.67%) Ethernet
2 4 (26.67%) LAN
2 4 (26.67%) MPLS
2 4 (26.67%) OSPF
3 3 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) IPsec
3 3 (20.00%) TACACS
3 3 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 3 (20.00%) Wireless
4 2 (13.33%) 3G
4 2 (13.33%) 4G
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (13.33%) FCoE
4 2 (13.33%) Internet
4 2 (13.33%) Junos
4 2 (13.33%) SAN
4 2 (13.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) JIRA
2 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Build Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Design Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Scrum Master
5 1 (6.67%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
5 1 (6.67%) Real Time Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Public Cloud
1 7 (46.67%) Virtual Team
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (6.67%) IoT
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
1 9 (60.00%) Unix
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (53.33%) Project Delivery
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Server Building
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Adaptive Security
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Information Management
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
4 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (13.33%) Process Management
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) WAN Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) BC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (13.33%) CCNA
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) CCDP
3 1 (6.67%) CCIP
3 1 (6.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Ansible
1 7 (46.67%) CFEngine
1 7 (46.67%) PowerBroker
1 7 (46.67%) Progress Chef
1 7 (46.67%) Puppet
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (6.67%) Kibana
3 1 (6.67%) logstash
3 1 (6.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Atlassian
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco
2 4 (26.67%) Juniper
3 2 (13.33%) ADVA
3 2 (13.33%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (13.33%) F5
3 2 (13.33%) Forcepoint
3 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.67%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (6.67%) ArcSight
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Nokia
4 1 (6.67%) Nokia Networks
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Tellabs