Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DSL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DSL over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 954 1125
Rank change year-on-year +110 +171 -233
Permanent jobs citing DSL 54 26 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.026% 0.048%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.40% 0.17% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 33 16 49
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,930 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,438 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -40.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £43,750 £72,500 £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -41.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

DSL is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,516 15,741 20,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.62% 15.58% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,426 8,007 11,698
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -3.23% +3.33%

DSL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DSL in the UK

DSL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DSL.

Salary trend for DSL in the UK

DSL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DSL over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DSL in the UK

DSL
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DSL within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +19 53 £40,000 +6.67% 11
England +109 36 £40,000 +6.67% 11
North of England +56 27 £40,000 +6.67% 2
North West - 27 £40,000 - 1
Scotland - 18 - -
South East - 7 £35,000 - 5
Wales - 2 - -
West Midlands -1 1 £42,500 +54.76% 2
Midlands -16 1 £42,500 +54.76% 2
London - 1 - -

DSL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (12.96%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (12.96%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) Entra ID
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (12.96%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (59.26%) Wi-Fi
2 29 (53.70%) Wireless
3 25 (46.30%) BGP
3 25 (46.30%) LAN
3 25 (46.30%) MPLS
3 25 (46.30%) OSPF
4 24 (44.44%) DHCP
4 24 (44.44%) Ethernet
4 24 (44.44%) Internet
4 24 (44.44%) TCP/IP
4 24 (44.44%) WAN
5 7 (12.96%) 4G
5 7 (12.96%) LTE
6 2 (3.70%) HTTP
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.85%) Firewall
7 1 (1.85%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.33%) Big Data
1 18 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 18 (33.33%) DB2
1 18 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 18 (33.33%) Tableau
2 7 (12.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Git
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
1 2 (3.70%) Postman
General
1 20 (37.04%) Law
2 18 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (33.33%) Banking
2 18 (33.33%) Finance
2 18 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 18 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 18 (33.33%) Marketing
3 7 (12.96%) Legal
3 7 (12.96%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (38.89%) Network Engineer
2 18 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 18 (33.33%) IP Engineer
2 18 (33.33%) IP Network Engineer
2 18 (33.33%) Software Engineering Director
3 13 (24.07%) Cisco Engineer
3 13 (24.07%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 13 (24.07%) Juniper Engineer
4 11 (20.37%) Network Support
5 7 (12.96%) Field Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Network Support Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Network Field Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Field Service Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
9 1 (1.85%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (3.70%) Gherkin
2 2 (3.70%) JSON
2 2 (3.70%) JSON Schema
2 2 (3.70%) REST
2 2 (3.70%) RESTful
2 2 (3.70%) Software Packaging
2 2 (3.70%) Swagger
2 2 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.04%) Product Ownership
2 19 (35.19%) Management Information System
3 18 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 18 (33.33%) Public Cloud
4 7 (12.96%) Smartphone
5 2 (3.70%) CMDB
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (33.33%) VyOS
2 7 (12.96%) Android
2 7 (12.96%) Apple iOS
2 7 (12.96%) Windows
2 7 (12.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) Customer Service
2 20 (37.04%) Agile
2 20 (37.04%) Asset Management
2 20 (37.04%) Data Modelling
2 20 (37.04%) Software Engineering
3 18 (33.33%) Analytics
3 18 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 18 (33.33%) Business Analytics
3 18 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (33.33%) Code Coverage
3 18 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 18 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 18 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 18 (33.33%) Data Reconciliation
3 18 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 18 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 18 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 18 (33.33%) SDLC
3 18 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 18 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.74%) SQL
2 18 (33.33%) Java
2 18 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 18 (33.33%) Python
2 18 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (46.30%) CCNA
1 25 (46.30%) Cisco Certification
1 25 (46.30%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (35.19%) SLA
2 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Active Directory
1 7 (12.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Nessus
Vendors
1 25 (46.30%) Cisco
1 25 (46.30%) Juniper
2 24 (44.44%) Fortinet
2 24 (44.44%) Nokia
2 24 (44.44%) Ruckus Wireless
3 18 (33.33%) Alteryx
3 18 (33.33%) Cognos
3 18 (33.33%) Databricks
3 18 (33.33%) Oracle
3 18 (33.33%) Sybase
3 18 (33.33%) Vyatta
4 7 (12.96%) Citrix
4 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.70%) Snow
6 1 (1.85%) Meraki
6 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto