DSL Contracts

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 665 804
Rank change year-on-year +94 +139 -89
Contract jobs citing DSL 8 19 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.034% 0.042%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 0.27% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 30
10th Percentile £320 £381 £320
25th Percentile £463 £400 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £585
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -27.35% -4.49%
75th Percentile £500 £781 £595
90th Percentile £515 £908 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £824 £400
% change year-on-year -40.84% +105.98% +110.55%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,169 9,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.59% 12.72% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,630 6,422
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 444 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -2.27%

DSL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DSL in the UK

DSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DSL in the UK

DSL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DSL over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DSL in the UK

DSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DSL in the UK

DSL
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England +84 6 £488 +14.71% 6
UK excluding London +48 6 £488 -40.84% 6
South East +11 4 £500 - 2
Work from Home +103 2 £475 +18.75% 3
London +92 1 £250 -41.18% 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
Scotland - 1 £475 - 1

DSL
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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) LAN
1 3 (37.50%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) ADSL
2 2 (25.00%) BGP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (25.00%) IPsec
2 2 (25.00%) MPLS
2 2 (25.00%) OSPF
2 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) TACACS
2 2 (25.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (12.50%) 4G
3 1 (12.50%) 5G
3 1 (12.50%) FCoE
3 1 (12.50%) Junos
3 1 (12.50%) LTE
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Junior
2 1 (12.50%) Junior Scrum Master
2 1 (12.50%) Product Owner
2 1 (12.50%) Real Time Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
1 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Information Management
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (12.50%) PLM
2 1 (12.50%) Process Management
2 1 (12.50%) Server Building
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) SIEM
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Ruby
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CCNA
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) BC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) CCDP
2 1 (12.50%) CCIP
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) CSPO
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kibana
1 2 (25.00%) logstash
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) QRadar
2 1 (12.50%) SCOM
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) ADVA
2 1 (12.50%) Alcatel-Lucent
2 1 (12.50%) ArcSight
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Forcepoint
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk