DSL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 431 507
Rank change year-on-year +38 +76 -66
Contract jobs citing DSL 6 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.031% 0.020%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.20% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £324 £209
25th Percentile £463 £507 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £824 £295
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% +179.30% +55.27%
75th Percentile £506 £841 £366
90th Percentile £518 £844 £402
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £585
% change year-on-year +11.76% -27.35% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,292 3,534 4,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 15.51% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,212 2,720
10th Percentile £205 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +5.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 301 240
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.43
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.10
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.61
90th Percentile £71.01 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%

DSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DSL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DSL in the UK excluding London

DSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DSL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DSL in the UK excluding London

DSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DSL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DSL in the UK excluding London

DSL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DSL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +12 4 £500 - 1
Scotland - 1 £475 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
DSL
UK

DSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) ADSL
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 2 (33.33%) IPsec
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) TACACS
2 2 (33.33%) Unified Communications
3 1 (16.67%) 4G
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) FCoE
3 1 (16.67%) Junos
3 1 (16.67%) LTE
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Real Time Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Communications Security
2 1 (16.67%) Competitor Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Information Management
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Market Research
2 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (16.67%) PLM
2 1 (16.67%) Process Management
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Ruby
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCNA
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) CCDP
2 1 (16.67%) CCIP
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) CSPO
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) logstash
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
1 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) ADVA
2 1 (16.67%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Forcepoint
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds