DWDM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DWDM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DWDM over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 424 479
Rank change year-on-year +31 +55 -39
Contract jobs citing DWDM 8 6 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.026% 0.082%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 0.17% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 18
10th Percentile £419 £230 £296
25th Percentile - £279 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £375 £363
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £588 £388 £476
90th Percentile - - £750
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £375
% change year-on-year +11.11% +20.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £16.70 £15.05 -
25th Percentile £20.75 £16.63 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% - -
75th Percentile £33.75 £22.63 -
90th Percentile £34.50 £24.35 -
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £19.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +60.26% -25.00% +36.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

DWDM falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £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 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

DWDM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DWDM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DWDM in the UK excluding London

DWDM
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 DWDM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +21 6 £430 +14.67%
Yorkshire - 5 £430 -
North West +14 1 - -
South East +12 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
DWDM
UK

DWDM
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) ArcGIS
1 1 (12.50%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) MicroStation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SDH
2 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (25.00%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) SONET
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) z/OS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Fibre Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) NOC Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) LPAR
1 5 (62.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Risk Management
2 2 (25.00%) Network Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) Data Entry
3 1 (12.50%) Data Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Network Design
3 1 (12.50%) Network Management
3 1 (12.50%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Order Management
3 1 (12.50%) Process Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) CLIST
1 5 (62.50%) JCL
1 5 (62.50%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 5 (62.50%) Microcode
1 5 (62.50%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 1 (12.50%) Autodesk
3 1 (12.50%) Ciena
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Huawei
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Nokia