xDSL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring xDSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited xDSL over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 710 869 970
Rank change year-on-year +159 +101 +259
Permanent jobs citing xDSL 2 9 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.009% 0.003%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.022% 0.067% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile - £21,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £26,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £32,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -27.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £47,375
90th Percentile - - £47,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £32,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% -27.78% +40.63%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

xDSL falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,239 13,484 15,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.77% 13.62% 15.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,292 9,395 8,040
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,925 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,875 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.83% -2.50% -3.23%

xDSL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for xDSL in the UK

xDSL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing xDSL.

Salary trend for xDSL in the UK

xDSL
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing xDSL within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +177 2 £42,500 +30.77% 11
England +135 2 £42,500 +30.77% 12
East of England - 2 £42,500 - 2

xDSL
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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Converged Networks
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LLU
1 2 (100.00%) PBX
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Service Desk Team Leader
1 2 (100.00%) Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) cPanel
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Draytek