ISDN Contracts

Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ISDN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISDN 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 510 585 675
Rank change year-on-year +75 +90 +154
Contract jobs citing ISDN 9 15 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.034% 0.064%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 0.27% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 5
10th Percentile - £488 £282
25th Percentile £538 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £635 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.45% +58.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £613 £672 £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £630 £475
% change year-on-year - +32.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £57.50 - -
25th Percentile £68.75 £58.50 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £63.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - -
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £63.00 -
% change year-on-year +19.05% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

ISDN 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 ISDN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISDN in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ISDN in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ISDN in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISDN over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ISDN 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 ISDN 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
England +57 9 £575 -9.45% 6
London +39 5 £575 -14.81%
UK excluding London +44 4 - - 5
South West +47 3 - -
Work from Home +42 2 £575 -8.73% 2
North of England +18 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) WAN
2 5 (55.56%) LAN
2 5 (55.56%) PSTN
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 4 (44.44%) 4G
3 4 (44.44%) Firewall
3 4 (44.44%) MPLS
3 4 (44.44%) VoIP
4 3 (33.33%) PBX
4 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 3 (33.33%) Unified Communications
5 1 (11.11%) Broadband
5 1 (11.11%) RS-232
5 1 (11.11%) RTP
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) X.21
5 1 (11.11%) X.25
General
1 3 (33.33%) Billing
1 3 (33.33%) Military
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Diagnostic Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Secure Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Operational Technology
2 3 (33.33%) IVR
2 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Zero Trust
2 3 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 1 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) CCNA
2 3 (33.33%) CCNP
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Avaya Certification
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Avaya