DSL Contracts in Scotland

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 - 174
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing DSL 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.047% - 0.058%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.44% - 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £585
% change year-on-year +11.76% -27.35% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 225 356 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.56% 13.21% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 216 204
10th Percentile £180 £160 £234
25th Percentile £233 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £453 £470
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% -3.72% +10.59%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £538
90th Percentile £634 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 18
10th Percentile £12.88 - £20.70
25th Percentile £16.25 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £49.14
Median % change year-on-year +71.87% -78.37% +35.54%
75th Percentile £52.69 £38.18 £55.94
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.18 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%

DSL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for DSL in Scotland

DSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for DSL in Scotland

DSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for DSL in Scotland

DSL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DSL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Edinburgh - 1 £475 - 1
DSL
UK

DSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) IT Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) IT Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX