Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ATM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ATM over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 489 799
Rank change year-on-year -63 +310 -150
Contract jobs citing ATM 30 217 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.37% 0.046%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.55% 3.03% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 29
10th Percentile - £145 £120
25th Percentile £126 £167 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £146 £221 £360
Median % change year-on-year -34.05% -38.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £407 £600
90th Percentile £624 £433 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £126 £167 £210
% change year-on-year -24.55% -20.48% -47.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 188 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £24.25 £9.80 -
Median hourly rate £24.50 £10.63 -
Median % change year-on-year +130.48% - -
75th Percentile £24.75 - -
90th Percentile - £12.02 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £9.80 -
% change year-on-year +150.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

ATM 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 5,473 7,157 9,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.73% 12.36% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 4,628 6,201
10th Percentile £205 £240 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £724 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £445
% change year-on-year - +6.86% +11.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 472 359
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.98
25th Percentile £16.44 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.51% +4.63%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.95 £65.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.47 £21.50
% change year-on-year +149.85% -14.12% -10.42%

ATM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ATM in the UK

ATM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ATM in the UK

ATM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ATM over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ATM in the UK

ATM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ATM in the UK

ATM
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ATM within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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
UK excluding London -59 24 £126 -24.55% 21
England -74 23 £126 -42.99% 25
Work from Home +131 15 £613 +25.64% 1
North West +23 10 £126 -54.18% 4
North of England -3 10 £126 -42.99% 8
South East +25 6 - - 6
Scotland +30 5 £613 +266.77% 2
London +94 4 £613 +266.77% 7
East of England - 2 £135 - 1
South West -53 1 £148 - 2

ATM
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 (3.33%) CICS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) AWS
1 1 (3.33%) Azure
1 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) 2G
1 5 (16.67%) 3G
1 5 (16.67%) 4G
1 5 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 4 (13.33%) SDH
3 1 (3.33%) BGP
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (3.33%) DSL
3 1 (3.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (3.33%) GSM
3 1 (3.33%) ICMP
3 1 (3.33%) Internet
3 1 (3.33%) MPLS
3 1 (3.33%) NGN
3 1 (3.33%) OSPF
3 1 (3.33%) PPP
3 1 (3.33%) RIP
3 1 (3.33%) VPN
3 1 (3.33%) WAN
3 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (3.33%) VersaTest
General
1 19 (63.33%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Retail
2 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (26.67%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Private Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Architect
1 9 (30.00%) IT Technician
1 9 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (10.00%) Transmission Planner
3 2 (6.67%) Field Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Transformation Programme Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Automation Tester
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Developer
4 1 (3.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Payments Tester
4 1 (3.33%) Perl Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms Planner
4 1 (3.33%) Tester
4 1 (3.33%) Transmission Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Transmission Planning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) EPoS
2 9 (30.00%) Driving Licence
2 9 (30.00%) Smartphone
3 8 (26.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (6.67%) EMV
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Break/Fix
2 11 (36.67%) Project Delivery
3 9 (30.00%) Agile
3 9 (30.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 9 (30.00%) Microservices
3 9 (30.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 9 (30.00%) Waterfall
4 8 (26.67%) SDLC
5 7 (23.33%) Business Case
6 4 (13.33%) Performance Analysis
7 1 (3.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (3.33%) Customer Service
7 1 (3.33%) Design Patterns
7 1 (3.33%) Migration
7 1 (3.33%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.33%) Product Vision
7 1 (3.33%) Project Governance
7 1 (3.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (3.33%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (3.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) COBOL
1 1 (3.33%) JCL
1 1 (3.33%) Perl
1 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) BC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO 8583
2 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) FIS
1 2 (6.67%) Fiserv
1 2 (6.67%) VocaLink
1 2 (6.67%) Wincor Nixdorf
1 2 (6.67%) WorldPay
2 1 (3.33%) ADVA
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco
2 1 (3.33%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) Juniper
2 1 (3.33%) Nokia
2 1 (3.33%) Nokia Networks
2 1 (3.33%) Tellabs