DNS Contracts in London

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 178 202
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 +6
Contract jobs citing DNS 238 389 569
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.36% 1.53% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.26% 15.03% 15.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 278 434
10th Percentile £256 £257 £307
25th Percentile £350 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.78% +22.73%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £650
90th Percentile £680 £738 £700
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 6
10th Percentile £16.00 £28.78 £20.88
25th Percentile £20.00 £37.81 £30.56
Median hourly rate £23.80 £53.25 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.31% +17.03% -9.00%
75th Percentile £23.99 £68.31 £49.65
90th Percentile £25.00 £77.13 £58.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £52.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.66% +142.47% -7.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,669 2,589 3,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.53% 10.18% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,818 2,545
10th Percentile £215 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +13.52%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 89
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.45
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +29.35% -43.11%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £59.75 £76.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +135.29% -28.90% +3.48%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in London

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in London

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in London

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in London

DNS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +3 30 £475 -20.83% 10
West London +16 8 £525 -8.70% 3
East London -4 2 £225 -59.09% 4
South London -5 1 £675 +42.11% 3
DNS
England

DNS
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 45 (18.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.46%) Apache
2 13 (5.46%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.04%) Exchange Server 2013
3 12 (5.04%) Tomcat
4 11 (4.62%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (4.20%) Confluence
5 10 (4.20%) IIS
6 5 (2.10%) JBoss
6 5 (2.10%) nginx
7 4 (1.68%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (3.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Elementor
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.10%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 94 (39.50%) Azure
2 74 (31.09%) AWS
3 67 (28.15%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (17.65%) Entra ID
5 19 (7.98%) SaaS
6 17 (7.14%) GCP
6 17 (7.14%) IaaS
6 17 (7.14%) PaaS
7 12 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (4.20%) Mimecast
9 9 (3.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (3.78%) GitHub
9 9 (3.78%) Nutanix
10 8 (3.36%) Cloudflare
10 8 (3.36%) Rubrik
11 7 (2.94%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.94%) Serverless
12 6 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 105 (44.12%) DHCP
2 100 (42.02%) Firewall
3 62 (26.05%) TCP/IP
4 39 (16.39%) LAN
4 39 (16.39%) VPN
5 35 (14.71%) BGP
6 32 (13.45%) WAN
7 28 (11.76%) OSPF
8 25 (10.50%) HTTP
8 25 (10.50%) Network Security
9 23 (9.66%) MPLS
10 20 (8.40%) Wireless
11 19 (7.98%) Cisco Nexus
11 19 (7.98%) SNMP
11 19 (7.98%) VLAN
12 18 (7.56%) Internet
13 16 (6.72%) IPsec
13 16 (6.72%) SD-WAN
13 16 (6.72%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.62%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.52%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.10%) MySQL
4 5 (2.10%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.68%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (1.68%) MariaDB
5 4 (1.68%) Power BI
6 3 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.26%) Redis
7 2 (0.84%) CouchDB
7 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.42%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.42%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.42%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (7.14%) Git
2 16 (6.72%) JIRA
3 10 (4.20%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (2.52%) GitLab
6 5 (2.10%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.68%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.68%) Snyk
8 2 (0.84%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.42%) Darcs
9 1 (0.42%) Gradle
9 1 (0.42%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.42%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.42%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.42%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (27.31%) Finance
2 52 (21.85%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 12 (5.04%) Banking
6 9 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.78%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.10%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.68%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.26%) Legal
9 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.26%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.84%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (0.84%) French Language
10 2 (0.84%) German Language
10 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.84%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Electronics
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (16.39%) Network Engineer
2 30 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 29 (12.18%) Senior
4 24 (10.08%) Support Engineer
5 18 (7.56%) Administrator
6 14 (5.88%) IT Support
6 14 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 14 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
7 13 (5.46%) Architect
7 13 (5.46%) IT Engineer
8 12 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.62%) Analyst
9 11 (4.62%) Developer
9 11 (4.62%) Senior Network Engineer
10 9 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.78%) Consultant
10 9 (3.78%) IT Support Engineer
11 8 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.36%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.14%) LDAP
2 9 (3.78%) SAML
3 8 (3.36%) .NET
3 8 (3.36%) JSON
4 7 (2.94%) 802.1X
4 7 (2.94%) Kafka
5 5 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.10%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (2.10%) Node.js
5 5 (2.10%) YAML
6 4 (1.68%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.68%) AWS CDK
6 4 (1.68%) CSS
6 4 (1.68%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.68%) NETCONF
7 3 (1.26%) HTML
7 3 (1.26%) REST
7 3 (1.26%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.84%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.61%) Data Centre
2 26 (10.92%) PKI
3 15 (6.30%) Clustering
4 13 (5.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 12 (5.04%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.78%) Replication
7 9 (3.78%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (2.94%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.94%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.52%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.52%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.52%) Smartphone
10 5 (2.10%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.68%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.26%) CCTV
12 3 (1.26%) Fat Client
12 3 (1.26%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 113 (47.48%) Windows
2 78 (32.77%) Windows Server
3 42 (17.65%) Linux
4 19 (7.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (7.56%) Windows 10
6 17 (7.14%) Windows 7
7 16 (6.72%) Unix
7 16 (6.72%) Windows Server 2008
8 10 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (2.10%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (2.10%) Solaris
9 5 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.26%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.84%) VMS
12 1 (0.42%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (15.97%) Load Balancing
2 38 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (14.29%) Migration
4 33 (13.87%) DevOps
5 29 (12.18%) Agile
6 26 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (10.08%) ITIL
8 23 (9.66%) Customer Service
9 22 (9.24%) CI/CD
10 20 (8.40%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (8.40%) Vulnerability Management
11 19 (7.98%) Computer Science
12 18 (7.56%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (7.56%) High Availability
13 17 (7.14%) Information Security
14 16 (6.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 13 (5.46%) Network Virtualisation
15 13 (5.46%) Roadmaps
15 13 (5.46%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (23.95%) PowerShell
2 47 (19.75%) Python
3 15 (6.30%) Java
4 13 (5.46%) Bash
4 13 (5.46%) Go
5 10 (4.20%) SQL
6 8 (3.36%) PHP
6 8 (3.36%) Shell Script
7 7 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.52%) C
8 6 (2.52%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.10%) C#
10 4 (1.68%) Ruby
10 4 (1.68%) VB
11 3 (1.26%) VBScript
12 2 (0.84%) C++
12 2 (0.84%) Perl
12 2 (0.84%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) Korn
13 1 (0.42%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 32 (13.45%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (12.61%) CCNP
3 24 (10.08%) Security Cleared
4 22 (9.24%) Degree
5 18 (7.56%) CCNA
6 15 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.20%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.78%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.36%) SC Cleared
10 6 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.52%) CCDP
11 5 (2.10%) CISSP
11 5 (2.10%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.68%) CCIE
12 4 (1.68%) CISM
12 4 (1.68%) MCSA
12 4 (1.68%) MCSE
13 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (1.26%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.52%) GDPR
2 6 (2.52%) NIST
3 5 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.10%) SLA
4 4 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.84%) GRC
6 2 (0.84%) NCSC
6 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.84%) QA
7 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.42%) COPPA
7 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 120 (50.42%) Active Directory
2 42 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.40%) Docker
4 15 (6.30%) Hyper-V
5 14 (5.88%) vSphere
6 12 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.10%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.68%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.68%) Firmware
8 4 (1.68%) NFS
8 4 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.68%) XenApp
9 3 (1.26%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.84%) PowerDNS
10 2 (0.84%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.84%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 36 (15.13%) Terraform
2 25 (10.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (10.08%) Kubernetes
4 21 (8.82%) Ansible
5 20 (8.40%) SCCM
6 14 (5.88%) SCOM
7 10 (4.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 10 (4.20%) Puppet
8 8 (3.36%) Grafana
9 7 (2.94%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.94%) Prometheus
9 7 (2.94%) SolarWinds Orion
10 6 (2.52%) Kibana
10 6 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (2.10%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (2.10%) Netcool
11 5 (2.10%) Tivoli
11 5 (2.10%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (1.68%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 90 (37.82%) Microsoft
2 59 (24.79%) VMware
3 58 (24.37%) Cisco
4 29 (12.18%) F5
5 27 (11.34%) Palo Alto
6 20 (8.40%) Dell
6 20 (8.40%) SolarWinds
7 16 (6.72%) Citrix
8 15 (6.30%) Qualys
9 13 (5.46%) CheckPoint
9 13 (5.46%) Oracle
9 13 (5.46%) Splunk
10 12 (5.04%) IBM
10 12 (5.04%) Infoblox
11 10 (4.20%) CA
11 10 (4.20%) HP
11 10 (4.20%) Okta
12 9 (3.78%) Aruba
12 9 (3.78%) Google
12 9 (3.78%) Juniper