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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 374 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing DSL 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% 0.019% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.23% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £384 £456 -
25th Percentile £415 £458 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% - -
75th Percentile £601 £488 -
90th Percentile £661 - -
England median daily rate £485 £475 £582
% change year-on-year +2.11% -18.38% -5.75%

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 1,294 1,527 2,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.05% 9.79% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 940 1,382
10th Percentile £306 £256 £214
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £732 £750
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 12 57
10th Percentile £20.24 £23.73 £18.93
25th Percentile - £29.69 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +40.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £29.31 £45.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £61.78 £80.06 £77.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -38.22% -14.04% +25.53%

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

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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 10 December 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 & 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%) Anypoint
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Camel
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Case Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) DataWeave
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
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