DSL Contract Job Trends in London

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring DSL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 - 439
Rank change year-on-year - - +143
Contract jobs citing DSL 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% - 0.005%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.23% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £526 - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.75%
75th Percentile £651 - £725
90th Percentile £680 - -
England median daily rate £593 £500 £560
% change year-on-year +18.50% -10.71% -8.20%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

DSL 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,323 1,529 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.84% 9.39% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 973 1,583
10th Percentile £289 £250 £250
25th Percentile £404 £390 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £721 £750
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 43
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.50
England median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DSL in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DSL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DSL

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DSL in London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DSL in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DSL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DSL

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (33.33%) Anypoint
1 1 (33.33%) Mule
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) BigCommerce
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) AMQP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Architect
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Camel
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) VML
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) DataWeave
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (33.33%) New Relic
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Sitecore