Tactical Data Link Contracts in the UK excluding London

Tactical Data Link
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Tactical Data Link skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tactical Data Link 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 388 427 491
Rank change year-on-year +39 +64 -46
Contract jobs citing Tactical Data Link 13 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.061% 0.013% 0.043%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.40% 0.085% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £473 - £620
25th Percentile £481 - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 - £775
75th Percentile £521 - £822
90th Percentile - - £861
UK median daily rate £502 £450 £775
% change year-on-year +11.56% -41.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile - £59.48 £40.59
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.15 £47.93
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.19 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% +20.35% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.14 £55.75
90th Percentile - £69.96 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.19 £52.00
% change year-on-year +10.79% +21.51% -9.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Tactical Data Link 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%

Tactical Data Link
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tactical Data Link in the UK excluding London

Tactical Data Link
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Tactical Data Link in the UK excluding London

Tactical Data Link
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Tactical Data Link in the UK excluding London

Tactical Data Link
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 Tactical Data Link 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
South East - 11 £502 - 2
South West +2 2 - -
Tactical Data Link
UK

Tactical Data Link
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:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) Link 16
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
1 2 (15.38%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Ada Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Ada Software Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Developer
3 4 (30.77%) C++ Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Software Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) OO
3 4 (30.77%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (15.38%) OOD
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) SDLC
4 2 (15.38%) Situational Awareness
4 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Time Management
4 2 (15.38%) UML
4 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Ada
1 7 (53.85%) Ada 95
2 4 (30.77%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Degree