DSL Contracts with Work from Home Options

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 468 608
Rank change year-on-year +126 +140 -123
Contract jobs citing DSL 6 8 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.031% 0.031%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.27% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile - - £241
25th Percentile - - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +45.50% +14.29% -53.33%
75th Percentile - £694 £425
90th Percentile - £950 £595
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £585
% change year-on-year -6.10% -8.97% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £19.65 - -
25th Percentile £21.38 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £46.13 £19.50 £23.00
90th Percentile £58.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +28.95% -13.64% +12.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,565 2,949 4,334
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.33% 11.55% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,011 1,962 2,936
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £703 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 95 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +13.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £27.50
% change year-on-year +112.54% -31.56% +3.77%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DSL trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DSL.

DSL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DSL.

DSL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DSL over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

DSL hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) BGP
1 3 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (50.00%) MPLS
1 3 (50.00%) OSPF
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) IPsec
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) PPP
2 2 (33.33%) RIP
2 2 (33.33%) TACACS
2 2 (33.33%) Unified Communications
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) 4G
3 1 (16.67%) FCoE
3 1 (16.67%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Server Building
2 2 (33.33%) Process Management
3 1 (16.67%) Adaptive Security
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Communications Security
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Information Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCDP
2 1 (16.67%) CCIP
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) CFEngine
1 3 (50.00%) PowerBroker
1 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) ADVA
3 1 (16.67%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 1 (16.67%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Forcepoint
3 1 (16.67%) Nokia
3 1 (16.67%) Nokia Networks
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (16.67%) Tellabs