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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 352 382
Rank change year-on-year -59 +30 +123
Contract jobs citing DSL 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.017% 0.039% 0.006%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.38% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £268 £456 -
25th Percentile £284 £458 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £475 £250
Median % change year-on-year -32.63% +90.00% -58.33%
75th Percentile £359 £488 £275
90th Percentile £376 - -
England median daily rate £249 £475 £582
% change year-on-year -47.58% -18.38% -3.00%

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 1,406 1,303 1,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.13% 10.29% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 851 1,172
10th Percentile £300 £265 £205
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £608
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 63
10th Percentile £20.38 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.02 £27.47 £18.36
Median hourly rate £25.79 £43.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +98.86% -42.11%
75th Percentile £39.75 £54.31 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.13 £66.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £46.25 £38.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +20.13% +1.32% +100.74%

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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

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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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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 & 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) fastlane
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) XCUITest
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Android Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Android Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (66.67%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Case Management
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) KYC
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) OSINT
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
DSL jobs