DNS Contracts

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 157 133 157
Rank change year-on-year -24 +24 +22
Contract jobs citing DNS 661 1,091 1,555
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.95% 1.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.18% 15.31% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 767 1,105
10th Percentile £213 £250 £225
25th Percentile £353 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.98%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £440
% change year-on-year -2.44% +16.48% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 28
10th Percentile £18.95 £19.78 £18.94
25th Percentile £23.66 £36.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.66% +136.95% -18.83%
75th Percentile £40.00 £84.50 £47.15
90th Percentile £50.96 £87.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £47.94 £21.50
% change year-on-year -16.56% +122.98% -5.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the UK

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in the UK

DNS
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the UK 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
England -10 602 £488 -7.14% 361
UK excluding London -11 389 £500 -2.44% 281
London 0 238 £450 -14.29% 90
Work from Home -36 182 £486 -7.48% 166
South East +27 159 £501 -7.31% 70
Midlands +20 78 £475 +18.75% 41
West Midlands +15 64 £525 +23.53% 26
North of England -46 59 £500 -4.76% 83
South West -35 50 £538 -5.70% 30
Scotland +27 34 £240 -48.33% 18
North West -40 30 £463 -11.90% 53
Yorkshire 0 26 £600 +14.29% 23
East Midlands -3 13 £325 -39.53% 15
East of England -35 7 £345 -37.27% 40
North East +8 3 £600 +108.70% 7
Northern Ireland 0 3 - - 2
Wales -3 1 £425 -22.73% 6

DNS
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
1 130 (19.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (6.05%) Confluence
3 35 (5.30%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.87%) Apache
5 16 (2.42%) nginx
5 16 (2.42%) Tomcat
6 15 (2.27%) IIS
7 12 (1.82%) Exchange Server 2013
8 11 (1.66%) Exchange Server 2010
9 9 (1.36%) JBoss
10 7 (1.06%) CMS
11 6 (0.91%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.76%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.45%) Drupal
13 3 (0.45%) WordPress
14 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 49 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.97%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Elementor
5 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.36%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 228 (34.49%) Azure
2 147 (22.24%) Microsoft 365
3 124 (18.76%) AWS
4 99 (14.98%) Entra ID
5 44 (6.66%) GCP
6 36 (5.45%) IaaS
7 35 (5.30%) Azure Monitor
8 28 (4.24%) PaaS
9 26 (3.93%) GitHub
10 25 (3.78%) SaaS
11 24 (3.63%) Azure Storage
12 21 (3.18%) OCI
13 18 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (2.57%) OneDrive
14 17 (2.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (2.12%) Cloudflare
17 13 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
18 12 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 11 (1.66%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 369 (55.82%) DHCP
2 237 (35.85%) Firewall
3 148 (22.39%) TCP/IP
4 133 (20.12%) VPN
5 93 (14.07%) WAN
6 83 (12.56%) LAN
7 63 (9.53%) SAN
8 56 (8.47%) Network Security
9 49 (7.41%) BGP
9 49 (7.41%) VLAN
10 46 (6.96%) HTTP
11 43 (6.51%) MPLS
12 42 (6.35%) Wi-Fi
12 42 (6.35%) Wireless
13 36 (5.45%) OSPF
14 33 (4.99%) SD-WAN
15 30 (4.54%) Cisco Nexus
16 29 (4.39%) Internet
17 27 (4.08%) SNMP
17 27 (4.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (2.57%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.12%) MySQL
5 13 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.66%) RDBMS
8 9 (1.36%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.06%) Power BI
10 5 (0.76%) Couchbase
11 4 (0.61%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (0.61%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.45%) Redis
13 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.30%) CouchDB
14 1 (0.15%) Bigtable
14 1 (0.15%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (7.41%) JIRA
2 41 (6.20%) Git
3 25 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.33%) GitLab
5 11 (1.66%) CircleCI
6 10 (1.51%) Travis CI
7 9 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.76%) Artifactory
8 5 (0.76%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.61%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.61%) Snyk
9 4 (0.61%) Subversion
10 3 (0.45%) Selenium
11 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.15%) Darcs
12 1 (0.15%) Gradle
12 1 (0.15%) Katalon Studio
General
1 213 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 92 (13.92%) Finance
3 78 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (6.20%) Public Sector
5 37 (5.60%) Telecoms
6 22 (3.33%) Military
7 20 (3.03%) Banking
8 18 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.97%) Retail
10 10 (1.51%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.06%) Legal
13 6 (0.91%) Multimedia
14 5 (0.76%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.45%) Front Office
15 3 (0.45%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.30%) Electronics
16 2 (0.30%) Local Government
16 2 (0.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 119 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 86 (13.01%) Network Engineer
3 62 (9.38%) Support Engineer
4 58 (8.77%) Senior
5 41 (6.20%) Architect
6 39 (5.90%) Analyst
7 31 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
8 30 (4.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 29 (4.39%) Integration Engineer
10 27 (4.08%) Administrator
10 27 (4.08%) Security Engineer
11 26 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (3.63%) IT Support
13 23 (3.48%) IT Engineer
14 21 (3.18%) Active Directory Support
14 21 (3.18%) Desktop Engineer
14 21 (3.18%) Desktop Support
15 20 (3.03%) Consultant
15 20 (3.03%) Test Engineer
16 19 (2.87%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.08%) JSON
2 26 (3.93%) LDAP
3 23 (3.48%) ARM Templates
4 22 (3.33%) YAML
5 17 (2.57%) SAML
6 15 (2.27%) XML
7 14 (2.12%) .NET
7 14 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (1.36%) IBM Integration Bus
9 8 (1.21%) OAuth
10 7 (1.06%) 802.1X
10 7 (1.06%) CSS
10 7 (1.06%) Kafka
10 7 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (0.91%) Middleware
11 6 (0.91%) Node.js
12 5 (0.76%) NETCONF
12 5 (0.76%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.76%) Web Services
13 4 (0.61%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 107 (16.19%) PKI
2 82 (12.41%) Data Centre
3 35 (5.30%) Clustering
4 30 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (3.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 23 (3.48%) Cloud Native
7 22 (3.33%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.27%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.97%) Client/Server
10 13 (1.97%) Replication
11 12 (1.82%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.51%) Fat Client
13 10 (1.51%) Thin Client
14 9 (1.36%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
15 8 (1.21%) iPad
16 7 (1.06%) Algorithms
16 7 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 365 (55.22%) Windows
2 237 (35.85%) Windows Server
3 150 (22.69%) Linux
4 100 (15.13%) Windows 10
5 85 (12.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 66 (9.98%) Windows Server 2019
7 60 (9.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 47 (7.11%) Unix
9 43 (6.51%) Windows 7
10 30 (4.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 28 (4.24%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (2.42%) Ubuntu
13 14 (2.12%) Windows XP
14 11 (1.66%) CentOS
15 10 (1.51%) VMS
15 10 (1.51%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (0.91%) Mac OS
16 6 (0.91%) Solaris
17 5 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
18 3 (0.45%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (20.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 112 (16.94%) ITIL
3 111 (16.79%) Agile
4 103 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (12.86%) DevOps
6 80 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 74 (11.20%) Migration
8 73 (11.04%) CI/CD
9 61 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
10 53 (8.02%) Load Balancing
11 51 (7.72%) Customer Service
12 48 (7.26%) Server Management
13 46 (6.96%) Computer Science
14 43 (6.51%) Disaster Recovery
15 41 (6.20%) Project Management
16 38 (5.75%) Change Management
17 35 (5.30%) Analytics
17 35 (5.30%) Patch Management
17 35 (5.30%) Task Automation
18 34 (5.14%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 190 (28.74%) PowerShell
2 81 (12.25%) Python
3 42 (6.35%) SQL
4 36 (5.45%) Bash
5 35 (5.30%) C#
6 31 (4.69%) Java
7 29 (4.39%) VBScript
8 25 (3.78%) VB
9 24 (3.63%) Bicep
10 17 (2.57%) Go
11 16 (2.42%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.82%) JavaScript
12 12 (1.82%) PHP
13 6 (0.91%) C
13 6 (0.91%) Perl
13 6 (0.91%) Ruby
13 6 (0.91%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.76%) ActionScript
15 4 (0.61%) C++
16 3 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 192 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 119 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 106 (16.04%) Degree
4 91 (13.77%) Cisco Certification
5 81 (12.25%) DV Cleared
6 64 (9.68%) CCNA
6 64 (9.68%) CCNP
7 49 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (4.39%) MCSE
9 26 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (3.78%) MCSA
11 23 (3.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 20 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 17 (2.57%) A+ Certification
14 16 (2.42%) AWS Certification
15 14 (2.12%) CCIE
16 13 (1.97%) Azure Certification
17 11 (1.66%) CISSP
18 8 (1.21%) CISM
19 7 (1.06%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.33%) NIST
2 21 (3.18%) QA
3 19 (2.87%) GDPR
4 12 (1.82%) SLA
5 11 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.36%) ISO 9000
7 7 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.76%) NCSC
10 4 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.30%) GRC
13 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.15%) COPPA
13 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 367 (55.52%) Active Directory
2 168 (25.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (9.08%) VMware ESXi
4 55 (8.32%) Hyper-V
5 48 (7.26%) Virtual Machines
6 45 (6.81%) Docker
7 44 (6.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 40 (6.05%) vSphere
9 31 (4.69%) XenApp
10 20 (3.03%) VMware NSX
11 16 (2.42%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (2.27%) XenDesktop
13 11 (1.66%) BitLocker
14 10 (1.51%) VMware Workstation
15 9 (1.36%) Microsoft App-V
15 9 (1.36%) Terminal Services
16 8 (1.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 6 (0.91%) Firmware
17 6 (0.91%) NFS
18 5 (0.76%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 140 (21.18%) SCCM
2 70 (10.59%) Kubernetes
3 67 (10.14%) Terraform
4 62 (9.38%) WSUS
5 59 (8.93%) Ansible
6 53 (8.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 53 (8.02%) SCOM
7 52 (7.87%) vCenter Server
8 44 (6.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 26 (3.93%) NetBackup
10 23 (3.48%) Puppet
11 19 (2.87%) EMC NetWorker
12 18 (2.72%) Prometheus
13 17 (2.57%) Grafana
14 16 (2.42%) FortiGate
14 16 (2.42%) Kibana
15 13 (1.97%) Progress Chef
16 12 (1.82%) logstash
17 11 (1.66%) Docker Swarm
17 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 277 (41.91%) Microsoft
2 210 (31.77%) VMware
3 149 (22.54%) Cisco
4 62 (9.38%) Palo Alto
5 54 (8.17%) F5
6 53 (8.02%) Citrix
7 46 (6.96%) Dell
8 39 (5.90%) Oracle
9 37 (5.60%) SolarWinds
10 34 (5.14%) Veeam
11 32 (4.84%) Splunk
11 32 (4.84%) Symantec
12 31 (4.69%) HP
12 31 (4.69%) Juniper
13 26 (3.93%) CheckPoint
14 25 (3.78%) EMC
15 23 (3.48%) Infoblox
16 21 (3.18%) Google
17 20 (3.03%) NetApp
17 20 (3.03%) Red Hat