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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 131 166
Rank change year-on-year -19 +35 +12
Contract jobs citing DNS 681 1,128 1,545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 1.97% 1.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.60% 15.82% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 795 1,089
10th Percentile £213 £250 £222
25th Percentile £361 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £599 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -2.44% +20.59% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 31
10th Percentile £18.95 £21.05 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.66 £36.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% +82.91% -12.60%
75th Percentile - £83.00 £46.71
90th Percentile £57.57 £87.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £46.11 £21.50
% change year-on-year -13.24% +114.44% -7.37%

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 5,406 7,129 9,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.45% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,227 4,606 6,336
10th Percentile £205 £235 £233
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 460 376
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -30.84% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.09 £50.83
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.55 £65.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
% change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -5.49%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -8 611 £488 -7.14% 435
UK excluding London -7 402 £500 -2.44% 348
London -1 238 £450 -18.18% 121
Work from Home -33 184 £475 -11.63% 150
South East +28 165 £501 -9.00% 92
Midlands +15 76 £463 +22.52% 57
West Midlands +26 63 £525 +23.53% 28
North of England -49 61 £500 -4.76% 100
South West -30 52 £540 -1.82% 32
Scotland +37 38 £240 -48.11% 19
North West -47 31 £450 -14.29% 63
Yorkshire -2 27 £600 +14.29% 31
East Midlands -4 12 £325 -13.33% 29
East of England -31 6 £345 -34.29% 44
Northern Ireland +2 5 - - 4
North East +9 3 £600 +108.70% 6
Wales -1 1 £425 -22.73% 7

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
1 132 (19.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (6.46%) Confluence
3 38 (5.58%) SharePoint
4 22 (3.23%) Apache
5 17 (2.50%) IIS
5 17 (2.50%) nginx
5 17 (2.50%) Tomcat
6 13 (1.91%) Exchange Server 2013
7 12 (1.76%) Exchange Server 2010
8 9 (1.32%) JBoss
9 7 (1.03%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.88%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.88%) CMS
11 5 (0.73%) Skype for Business
12 3 (0.44%) Drupal
12 3 (0.44%) WordPress
13 2 (0.29%) Traefik
14 1 (0.15%) EPiServer
14 1 (0.15%) IBM Notes
14 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.91%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.32%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 235 (34.51%) Azure
2 145 (21.29%) Microsoft 365
3 130 (19.09%) AWS
4 99 (14.54%) Entra ID
5 50 (7.34%) GCP
6 43 (6.31%) IaaS
7 33 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
8 32 (4.70%) PaaS
9 28 (4.11%) GitHub
10 27 (3.96%) SaaS
11 21 (3.08%) OCI
12 20 (2.94%) Azure Storage
12 20 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (2.79%) OneDrive
13 19 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (2.06%) Cloudflare
16 13 (1.91%) Akamai
17 12 (1.76%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 372 (54.63%) DHCP
2 245 (35.98%) Firewall
3 155 (22.76%) TCP/IP
4 135 (19.82%) VPN
5 95 (13.95%) WAN
6 84 (12.33%) LAN
7 65 (9.54%) SAN
8 60 (8.81%) Network Security
9 54 (7.93%) VLAN
10 48 (7.05%) HTTP
11 46 (6.75%) BGP
11 46 (6.75%) MPLS
12 43 (6.31%) Wireless
13 42 (6.17%) Wi-Fi
14 34 (4.99%) OSPF
15 32 (4.70%) Internet
15 32 (4.70%) SD-WAN
16 30 (4.41%) SSL
17 29 (4.26%) Cisco Nexus
18 28 (4.11%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (2.20%) MySQL
5 14 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.62%) RDBMS
7 9 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.17%) Power BI
9 5 (0.73%) Couchbase
10 4 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.59%) MariaDB
10 4 (0.59%) Redis
11 3 (0.44%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.29%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.29%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.15%) Bigtable
13 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 53 (7.78%) JIRA
2 41 (6.02%) Git
3 27 (3.96%) Jenkins
4 21 (3.08%) GitLab
5 10 (1.47%) CircleCI
5 10 (1.47%) Travis CI
6 9 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.88%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.73%) Artifactory
8 5 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.59%) Snyk
9 4 (0.59%) Subversion
10 3 (0.44%) Postman
10 3 (0.44%) Selenium
11 2 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.15%) Darcs
12 1 (0.15%) Gradle
General
1 214 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 95 (13.95%) Finance
3 78 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 41 (6.02%) Telecoms
6 21 (3.08%) Banking
6 21 (3.08%) Military
7 17 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.06%) Retail
9 12 (1.76%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.47%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.88%) Electronics
12 6 (0.88%) Legal
12 6 (0.88%) Marketing
12 6 (0.88%) Multimedia
13 5 (0.73%) French Language
13 5 (0.73%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (0.59%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (18.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 87 (12.78%) Network Engineer
3 59 (8.66%) Senior
3 59 (8.66%) Support Engineer
4 46 (6.75%) Architect
5 43 (6.31%) Analyst
6 38 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 32 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
8 31 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
9 28 (4.11%) Administrator
9 28 (4.11%) Security Engineer
10 27 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (3.38%) IT Support
12 22 (3.23%) IT Engineer
13 20 (2.94%) Server Engineer
14 19 (2.79%) Support Specialist
14 19 (2.79%) Test Engineer
15 18 (2.64%) 2nd Line Support
15 18 (2.64%) Consultant
15 18 (2.64%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.26%) JSON
1 29 (4.26%) LDAP
2 22 (3.23%) YAML
3 20 (2.94%) ARM Templates
4 18 (2.64%) .NET
5 17 (2.50%) XML
6 16 (2.35%) SAML
7 13 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (1.32%) IBM Integration Bus
9 8 (1.17%) CSS
9 8 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (1.17%) Web Services
10 7 (1.03%) 802.1X
10 7 (1.03%) Kafka
10 7 (1.03%) Middleware
10 7 (1.03%) OAuth
11 6 (0.88%) Node.js
12 5 (0.73%) NETCONF
12 5 (0.73%) OAuth2
13 4 (0.59%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 105 (15.42%) PKI
2 89 (13.07%) Data Centre
3 38 (5.58%) Clustering
4 28 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (3.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 23 (3.38%) Cloud Native
6 23 (3.38%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.35%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.20%) Replication
10 14 (2.06%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.91%) Client/Server
12 11 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.32%) Fat Client
13 9 (1.32%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.32%) Thin Client
13 9 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
14 8 (1.17%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
16 6 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 364 (53.45%) Windows
2 237 (34.80%) Windows Server
3 158 (23.20%) Linux
4 99 (14.54%) Windows 10
5 91 (13.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 67 (9.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 60 (8.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 45 (6.61%) Unix
9 43 (6.31%) Windows 7
10 32 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 31 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
12 17 (2.50%) Ubuntu
13 14 (2.06%) Windows XP
14 11 (1.62%) CentOS
14 11 (1.62%) VMS
14 11 (1.62%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (1.03%) Solaris
16 6 (0.88%) Debian
16 6 (0.88%) Mac OS
16 6 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (20.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 114 (16.74%) Agile
3 106 (15.57%) ITIL
4 105 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
5 99 (14.54%) DevOps
6 78 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 75 (11.01%) Migration
8 68 (9.99%) CI/CD
9 59 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
10 55 (8.08%) Load Balancing
11 48 (7.05%) Customer Service
12 46 (6.75%) Computer Science
12 46 (6.75%) Server Management
13 44 (6.46%) Disaster Recovery
14 38 (5.58%) Change Management
14 38 (5.58%) Project Management
15 37 (5.43%) Project Delivery
16 36 (5.29%) Proactive Monitoring
17 34 (4.99%) Patch Management
18 33 (4.85%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 195 (28.63%) PowerShell
2 93 (13.66%) Python
3 43 (6.31%) SQL
4 42 (6.17%) Bash
5 35 (5.14%) C#
6 32 (4.70%) Java
7 27 (3.96%) VBScript
8 22 (3.23%) VB
9 21 (3.08%) Bicep
10 18 (2.64%) Go
11 16 (2.35%) Shell Script
12 15 (2.20%) JavaScript
13 11 (1.62%) PHP
14 8 (1.17%) Perl
15 7 (1.03%) Ruby
16 6 (0.88%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.73%) ActionScript
17 5 (0.73%) C
18 4 (0.59%) C++
19 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 192 (28.19%) Security Cleared
2 115 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 108 (15.86%) Degree
4 95 (13.95%) Cisco Certification
5 85 (12.48%) DV Cleared
6 68 (9.99%) CCNP
7 66 (9.69%) CCNA
8 47 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (4.26%) MCSE
10 28 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (3.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 22 (3.23%) MCSA
13 17 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 14 (2.06%) A+ Certification
15 13 (1.91%) AWS Certification
15 13 (1.91%) Azure Certification
15 13 (1.91%) CCIE
16 11 (1.62%) CISSP
17 8 (1.17%) CISM
18 7 (1.03%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.23%) NIST
1 22 (3.23%) QA
2 19 (2.79%) GDPR
3 13 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.91%) SLA
4 9 (1.32%) ISO 9000
5 8 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.73%) NCSC
8 4 (0.59%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.29%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) COPPA
11 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 367 (53.89%) Active Directory
2 171 (25.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (9.69%) VMware ESXi
4 56 (8.22%) Hyper-V
5 48 (7.05%) Virtual Machines
6 45 (6.61%) Docker
7 40 (5.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 37 (5.43%) vSphere
9 30 (4.41%) XenApp
10 24 (3.52%) VMware NSX
11 19 (2.79%) Virtual Servers
12 14 (2.06%) XenDesktop
13 11 (1.62%) BitLocker
13 11 (1.62%) VMware Workstation
14 10 (1.47%) Terminal Services
15 8 (1.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 8 (1.17%) NFS
16 7 (1.03%) Firmware
16 7 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.73%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 134 (19.68%) SCCM
2 71 (10.43%) Terraform
3 69 (10.13%) Kubernetes
4 67 (9.84%) Ansible
5 61 (8.96%) WSUS
6 57 (8.37%) vCenter Server
7 49 (7.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 48 (7.05%) SCOM
9 43 (6.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (3.67%) NetBackup
11 24 (3.52%) Puppet
12 20 (2.94%) EMC NetWorker
13 17 (2.50%) Grafana
13 17 (2.50%) Prometheus
14 16 (2.35%) FortiGate
14 16 (2.35%) Kibana
15 14 (2.06%) Progress Chef
16 12 (1.76%) logstash
16 12 (1.76%) Microsoft Clustering
16 12 (1.76%) Nagios
Vendors
1 279 (40.97%) Microsoft
2 216 (31.72%) VMware
3 143 (21.00%) Cisco
4 62 (9.10%) Palo Alto
5 54 (7.93%) Citrix
6 53 (7.78%) F5
7 46 (6.75%) Dell
8 40 (5.87%) Oracle
9 38 (5.58%) Veeam
10 36 (5.29%) SolarWinds
11 31 (4.55%) HP
11 31 (4.55%) Juniper
11 31 (4.55%) Splunk
11 31 (4.55%) Symantec
12 26 (3.82%) EMC
13 24 (3.52%) CheckPoint
13 24 (3.52%) Infoblox
14 22 (3.23%) Google
14 22 (3.23%) Red Hat
15 20 (2.94%) ServiceNow