DNS Contracts in the East of England

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 71 61
Rank change year-on-year -34 -10 -3
Contract jobs citing DNS 8 47 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.41% 2.41% 3.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.90% 12.88% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 29 73
10th Percentile - £295 £270
25th Percentile - £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -47.27% +29.41% +17.24%
75th Percentile £463 £700 £525
90th Percentile £545 - £571
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.47
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year -23.27% +142.47% -7.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

DNS 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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 276 365 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 14.09% 18.75% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 215 281
10th Percentile £200 £210 £193
25th Percentile £255 £347 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £551 £638 £525
90th Percentile £575 £700 £625
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 33 54
10th Percentile £14.16 - -
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £57.00 £15.63
Median % change year-on-year -62.35% +264.80% -13.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £36.77
90th Percentile - £73.00 £64.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for DNS in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hertfordshire -13 7 £290 -44.76% 14
Cambridgeshire -8 1 £425 +26.87% 6
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (62.50%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) FTP
1 5 (62.50%) HTTP
1 5 (62.50%) SMTP
1 5 (62.50%) SSL
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) VLAN
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall
4 1 (12.50%) NAS
4 1 (12.50%) PBX
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Junior
2 3 (37.50%) Junior Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cyberattack
1 5 (62.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Server Management
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCIE
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Darktrace
1 5 (62.50%) FireEye
1 5 (62.50%) IronPort
1 5 (62.50%) LogRhythm
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk
1 5 (62.50%) Symantec
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft