DSL Contracts in London

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring DSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DSL over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 404 481
Rank change year-on-year +47 +77 +111
Contract jobs citing DSL 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.006% 0.016%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.22% 0.059% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £404
25th Percentile £468 £225 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £250 £513
Median % change year-on-year +94.00% -51.22% -13.14%
75th Percentile £503 £275 £631
90th Percentile - - £688
England median daily rate £485 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -3.00% +17.65% -27.35%

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 1,371 1,690 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.32% 9.59% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 1,114 1,887
10th Percentile £263 £229 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £622 £669
90th Percentile £717 £738 £775
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 49 49
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.91 £16.86 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -34.87% +32.87%
75th Percentile £49.38 £41.25 £69.50
90th Percentile £62.05 £60.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% +108.55% -12.00%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DSL in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DSL in London

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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 2 (66.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) BigCommerce
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Run
1 2 (66.67%) Datadog
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) AMQP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) CircleCI
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) Terragrunt
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) GCP Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 2 (66.67%) VML
2 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Camel
2 1 (33.33%) JWT
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) B2B
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Acquisition
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) Data Enrichment
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) DataWeave
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
1 2 (66.67%) New Relic
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
1 2 (66.67%) Sitecore
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft