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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 353 392
Rank change year-on-year -69 +39 +93
Contract jobs citing DSL 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.026% 0.023% 0.006%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% 0.22% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £319 - -
25th Percentile £411 £468 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £485 £250
Median % change year-on-year +41.75% +94.00% -51.22%
75th Percentile £919 £503 £275
90th Percentile £953 - -
England median daily rate £370 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -23.71% -3.00% +17.65%

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 1,510 1,341 1,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.82% 10.33% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 863 1,119
10th Percentile £300 £263 £227
25th Percentile £408 £398 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £621
90th Percentile £716 £718 £738
England median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 49
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.07 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.21 £24.66 £16.86
Median hourly rate £28.88 £37.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -22.99% +57.56% -37.81%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.75 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £41.23 £45.88
% change year-on-year -35.18% -10.15% +121.59%

DSL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DSL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

DSL job vacancy trend in London

DSL
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

DSL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DSL in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DSL in London

DSL
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

DSL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) nginx
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Neo4j
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) fastlane
2 1 (20.00%) Gradle
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) XCUITest
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Android Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) Bootstrap
1 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (40.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) JWT
1 2 (40.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 2 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (40.00%) pytest
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) WebSockets
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
2 1 (20.00%) EJB
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) JavaBeans
2 1 (20.00%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Solaris
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) BDD
1 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Conceptual Models
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) GitOps
2 2 (40.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
2 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) LLM
2 2 (40.00%) Monorepo
2 2 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Red Team
2 2 (40.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Traceability Matrix
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Cypher
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) R
1 2 (40.00%) SHACL
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
2 1 (20.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) FactSet
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) VMware