DNS Contracts in England

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 149 144 151
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +30
Contract jobs citing DNS 604 885 1,299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.61% 1.88% 1.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.52% 14.94% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 614 946
10th Percentile £224 £213 £213
25th Percentile £380 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £600
90th Percentile £675 £716 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 23
10th Percentile £19.10 £19.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.80 £36.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% +142.47% -7.37%
75th Percentile - £84.50 £47.60
90th Percentile £50.64 £87.50 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £22.00
% change year-on-year -23.27% +136.95% -30.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,823 5,925 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 12.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 3,842 5,326
10th Percentile £213 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £645 £619
90th Percentile £690 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 408 318
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.28 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £72.66 £75.00 £63.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in England

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in England

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for DNS in England

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in England

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in England

DNS
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London 0 241 £450 -14.29% 78
South East +23 155 £513 -2.38% 86
Midlands +18 83 £463 +15.63% 53
West Midlands +13 66 £525 +23.53% 30
North of England -48 57 £500 -4.76% 81
South West -37 49 £538 -6.52% 26
North West -37 29 £425 -19.05% 52
Yorkshire -4 25 £600 +4.35% 24
East Midlands -3 16 £350 -50.00% 23
East of England -34 8 £290 -47.27% 40
North East +5 3 £600 +108.70% 5
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 131 (21.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (6.46%) Confluence
3 32 (5.30%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.32%) Apache
4 14 (2.32%) IIS
5 13 (2.15%) Tomcat
6 11 (1.82%) Exchange Server 2013
6 11 (1.82%) nginx
7 10 (1.66%) Exchange Server 2010
8 8 (1.32%) CMS
9 6 (0.99%) JBoss
9 6 (0.99%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.66%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.50%) Drupal
11 3 (0.50%) WordPress
12 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 31 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.32%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Elementor
5 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 215 (35.60%) Azure
2 144 (23.84%) Microsoft 365
3 108 (17.88%) AWS
4 93 (15.40%) Entra ID
5 38 (6.29%) GCP
6 36 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
7 35 (5.79%) IaaS
8 30 (4.97%) PaaS
9 25 (4.14%) Azure Storage
10 24 (3.97%) SaaS
11 23 (3.81%) GitHub
12 20 (3.31%) OCI
13 18 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (2.81%) OneDrive
15 14 (2.32%) Cloudflare
16 13 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
17 12 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (1.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 12 (1.99%) Mimecast
17 12 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 332 (54.97%) DHCP
2 216 (35.76%) Firewall
3 136 (22.52%) TCP/IP
4 98 (16.23%) VPN
5 84 (13.91%) WAN
6 77 (12.75%) LAN
7 61 (10.10%) SAN
8 49 (8.11%) Network Security
9 47 (7.78%) BGP
9 47 (7.78%) HTTP
10 44 (7.28%) Wireless
11 43 (7.12%) MPLS
12 41 (6.79%) VLAN
13 39 (6.46%) Wi-Fi
14 34 (5.63%) OSPF
15 31 (5.13%) SD-WAN
16 28 (4.64%) Cisco Nexus
16 28 (4.64%) Internet
17 26 (4.30%) IPsec
17 26 (4.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (2.32%) MySQL
3 14 (2.32%) Relational Database
4 12 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.32%) RDBMS
7 6 (0.99%) Couchbase
8 5 (0.83%) Power BI
9 4 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (0.66%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.66%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.33%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.33%) Redis
11 1 (0.17%) Bigtable
11 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 47 (7.78%) JIRA
2 37 (6.13%) Git
3 23 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 20 (3.31%) GitLab
5 11 (1.82%) CircleCI
6 10 (1.66%) Travis CI
7 9 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.83%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.83%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.66%) Snyk
10 4 (0.66%) Subversion
11 3 (0.50%) Selenium
12 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.33%) MSI
12 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.17%) Gradle
13 1 (0.17%) Mercurial
General
1 199 (32.95%) Social Skills
2 87 (14.40%) Finance
3 72 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.29%) Telecoms
5 34 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.31%) Military
7 18 (2.98%) Banking
8 13 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.99%) Retail
10 10 (1.66%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.32%) Legal
13 6 (0.99%) Local Government
13 6 (0.99%) Multimedia
14 4 (0.66%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.50%) Front Office
15 3 (0.50%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.33%) Cantonese Language
16 2 (0.33%) French Language
Job Titles
1 113 (18.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 81 (13.41%) Network Engineer
3 58 (9.60%) Senior
4 55 (9.11%) Support Engineer
5 39 (6.46%) Architect
6 35 (5.79%) Analyst
7 33 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
8 32 (5.30%) Integration Engineer
9 29 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
10 27 (4.47%) Administrator
11 25 (4.14%) Security Engineer
12 24 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (3.64%) Active Directory Support
13 22 (3.64%) IT Engineer
13 22 (3.64%) IT Support
14 20 (3.31%) Test Engineer
15 19 (3.15%) Consultant
15 19 (3.15%) Support Specialist
16 17 (2.81%) IT Analyst
17 16 (2.65%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.14%) JSON
2 24 (3.97%) ARM Templates
2 24 (3.97%) LDAP
3 22 (3.64%) YAML
4 17 (2.81%) SAML
5 14 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.15%) .NET
7 11 (1.82%) XML
8 8 (1.32%) OAuth
9 7 (1.16%) Kafka
10 6 (0.99%) 802.1X
10 6 (0.99%) IBM Integration Bus
10 6 (0.99%) Node.js
10 6 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (0.83%) OAuth2
11 5 (0.83%) Web Services
12 4 (0.66%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.66%) CSS
12 4 (0.66%) GraphQL
12 4 (0.66%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 97 (16.06%) PKI
2 77 (12.75%) Data Centre
3 30 (4.97%) Clustering
4 29 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (3.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 23 (3.81%) Cloud Native
7 19 (3.15%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.48%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.15%) Replication
10 12 (1.99%) Client/Server
11 11 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.66%) Fat Client
12 10 (1.66%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.66%) Thin Client
13 8 (1.32%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
14 7 (1.16%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 338 (55.96%) Windows
2 232 (38.41%) Windows Server
3 141 (23.34%) Linux
4 85 (14.07%) Windows Server 2012
5 78 (12.91%) Windows 10
6 66 (10.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 62 (10.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 44 (7.28%) Unix
9 27 (4.47%) Windows 7
9 27 (4.47%) Windows Server 2008
10 25 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (2.65%) Ubuntu
12 14 (2.32%) Windows XP
13 10 (1.66%) CentOS
14 9 (1.49%) VMS
14 9 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (1.16%) Mac OS
16 6 (0.99%) Solaris
17 5 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
18 2 (0.33%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (21.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 108 (17.88%) Agile
3 101 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
4 94 (15.56%) ITIL
5 84 (13.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 82 (13.58%) DevOps
7 76 (12.58%) CI/CD
8 70 (11.59%) Migration
9 56 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
10 47 (7.78%) Load Balancing
11 46 (7.62%) Server Management
12 43 (7.12%) Computer Science
13 40 (6.62%) Disaster Recovery
14 36 (5.96%) Analytics
14 36 (5.96%) Customer Service
14 36 (5.96%) Patch Management
14 36 (5.96%) Release Management
15 35 (5.79%) RBAC
15 35 (5.79%) Task Automation
16 34 (5.63%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (30.30%) PowerShell
2 74 (12.25%) Python
3 39 (6.46%) SQL
4 36 (5.96%) C#
5 32 (5.30%) Bash
6 30 (4.97%) Java
7 28 (4.64%) VBScript
8 26 (4.30%) VB
9 25 (4.14%) Bicep
10 16 (2.65%) Go
11 12 (1.99%) PHP
11 12 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.66%) JavaScript
13 8 (1.32%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.99%) C
14 6 (0.99%) Ruby
15 5 (0.83%) Perl
16 4 (0.66%) ActionScript
16 4 (0.66%) C++
17 3 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 164 (27.15%) Security Cleared
2 101 (16.72%) Degree
3 97 (16.06%) SC Cleared
4 84 (13.91%) Cisco Certification
5 78 (12.91%) DV Cleared
6 62 (10.26%) CCNA
6 62 (10.26%) CCNP
7 47 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (4.64%) MCSE
9 24 (3.97%) MCSA
10 23 (3.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 21 (3.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (2.48%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.99%) Azure Certification
14 12 (1.99%) CCIE
15 7 (1.16%) CCDP
16 6 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.99%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.64%) NIST
2 21 (3.48%) QA
3 19 (3.15%) GDPR
4 11 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.66%) SLA
6 9 (1.49%) ISO 9000
7 7 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.50%) NCSC
11 2 (0.33%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.17%) COPPA
12 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 336 (55.63%) Active Directory
2 166 (27.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (9.11%) VMware ESXi
4 54 (8.94%) Hyper-V
5 50 (8.28%) Virtual Machines
6 44 (7.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (6.95%) Docker
8 39 (6.46%) vSphere
9 33 (5.46%) XenApp
10 20 (3.31%) VMware NSX
11 18 (2.98%) XenDesktop
12 13 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (1.82%) VMware Workstation
14 9 (1.49%) Microsoft App-V
15 8 (1.32%) BitLocker
15 8 (1.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 7 (1.16%) NFS
17 5 (0.83%) Firmware
17 5 (0.83%) Terminal Services
17 5 (0.83%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 119 (19.70%) SCCM
2 72 (11.92%) Kubernetes
3 65 (10.76%) Terraform
4 62 (10.26%) WSUS
5 58 (9.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 54 (8.94%) Ansible
7 53 (8.77%) SCOM
8 46 (7.62%) vCenter Server
9 41 (6.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (4.30%) NetBackup
11 20 (3.31%) Puppet
12 19 (3.15%) EMC NetWorker
13 17 (2.81%) Grafana
13 17 (2.81%) Prometheus
14 15 (2.48%) Kibana
15 14 (2.32%) FortiGate
16 12 (1.99%) logstash
16 12 (1.99%) Progress Chef
16 12 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
17 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 251 (41.56%) Microsoft
2 205 (33.94%) VMware
3 127 (21.03%) Cisco
4 57 (9.44%) Palo Alto
5 53 (8.77%) Citrix
6 50 (8.28%) F5
7 45 (7.45%) Dell
8 36 (5.96%) SolarWinds
9 35 (5.79%) Oracle
9 35 (5.79%) Veeam
10 33 (5.46%) Symantec
11 30 (4.97%) Splunk
12 29 (4.80%) HP
12 29 (4.80%) Juniper
13 25 (4.14%) EMC
14 23 (3.81%) CheckPoint
15 22 (3.64%) Infoblox
16 20 (3.31%) NetApp
16 20 (3.31%) Qualys
17 19 (3.15%) Google