DNS Contracts in the South West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 108 71 99
Rank change year-on-year -37 +28 -12
Contract jobs citing DNS 49 99 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.49% 2.92% 1.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.94% 17.22% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 68 39
10th Percentile £181 £322 £200
25th Percentile £469 £469 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +35.29% +6.38%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £538
90th Percentile £716 £721 £575
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile - £78.00 £47.06
25th Percentile - £78.75 £47.60
Median hourly rate £40.00 £85.00 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% +75.33% +4.26%
75th Percentile - £100.00 £62.74
90th Percentile £71.93 £107.50 £71.30
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
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 548 575 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.61% 16.97% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 357 306
10th Percentile £310 £219 £214
25th Percentile £463 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +15.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £725 £625
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 113 29
10th Percentile £12.50 - £36.95
25th Percentile £15.75 - £42.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.70% +19.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.28 £60.92
90th Percentile £74.80 £77.50 £70.80
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in the South West

DNS
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the South West 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
Wiltshire -34 17 £544 -5.43% 5
Bristol +6 12 £543 -4.91% 5
Somerset +6 12 £295 -39.49% 4
Dorset - 4 - - 4
Devon -7 3 - - 4
Gloucestershire -18 1 £190 -68.33% 3
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 19 (38.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (18.37%) Confluence
3 4 (8.16%) Apache Solr
3 4 (8.16%) nginx
4 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.45%) Azure
2 6 (12.24%) Entra ID
3 5 (10.20%) AWS
3 5 (10.20%) GCP
4 4 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.16%) PaaS
5 3 (6.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Pipelines
5 3 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.12%) IaaS
6 1 (2.04%) OCI
6 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (67.35%) DHCP
2 14 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 12 (24.49%) WAN
4 11 (22.45%) LAN
5 9 (18.37%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (16.33%) Firewall
6 8 (16.33%) MPLS
6 8 (16.33%) SAN
6 8 (16.33%) VPN
7 5 (10.20%) Network Security
8 4 (8.16%) HTTPS
8 4 (8.16%) IPsec
9 3 (6.12%) BGP
9 3 (6.12%) OSPF
9 3 (6.12%) SNMP
10 2 (4.08%) Broadband
10 2 (4.08%) VoIP
10 2 (4.08%) Wireless
11 1 (2.04%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (2.04%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) Couchbase
2 4 (8.16%) MySQL
2 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.04%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (18.37%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 29 (59.18%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.73%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (20.41%) Military
4 9 (18.37%) Aerospace
5 4 (8.16%) Legal
6 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Analyst
1 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (20.41%) IT Analyst
3 9 (18.37%) Test Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (16.33%) Integration Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (16.33%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Consultant
5 5 (10.20%) Network Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Wintel Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (4.08%) Principal Consultant
8 2 (4.08%) Service Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) JSON
1 4 (8.16%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (8.16%) YAML
2 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.04%) Django
2 1 (2.04%) Flask
2 1 (2.04%) OAuth
2 1 (2.04%) OpenID
2 1 (2.04%) React
2 1 (2.04%) REST
2 1 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.73%) PKI
2 9 (18.37%) Clustering
3 8 (16.33%) Client/Server
3 8 (16.33%) Data Centre
4 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (59.18%) Windows
2 16 (32.65%) Windows Server
3 10 (20.41%) Unix
3 10 (20.41%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (14.29%) Linux
5 4 (8.16%) CentOS
5 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.08%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Agile
2 12 (24.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (24.49%) Migration
3 11 (22.45%) Network Management
4 10 (20.41%) Critical Thinking
5 9 (18.37%) Decision-Making
5 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.37%) Regression Testing
5 9 (18.37%) Server Management
5 9 (18.37%) Test Scripting
6 8 (16.33%) Application Packaging
6 8 (16.33%) Asset Management
6 8 (16.33%) Business Transformation
6 8 (16.33%) Capacity Management
6 8 (16.33%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (16.33%) Data Migration
6 8 (16.33%) Data Protection
7 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (10.20%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.45%) SQL
2 9 (18.37%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.16%) PHP
4 3 (6.12%) Java
5 2 (4.08%) C#
6 1 (2.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (44.90%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 10 (20.41%) Degree
3 10 (20.41%) DV Cleared
3 10 (20.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 9 (18.37%) MCSA
4 9 (18.37%) MCSE
4 9 (18.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.08%) CCNA
5 2 (4.08%) CCNP
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.08%) JNCIA
6 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) NIST
2 4 (8.16%) GDPR
2 4 (8.16%) HIPAA
2 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.16%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (61.22%) Active Directory
2 22 (44.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (20.41%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (16.33%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (10.20%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (8.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (6.12%) Docker
7 3 (6.12%) Hyper-V
7 3 (6.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (4.08%) vSphere
9 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 13 (26.53%) SCCM
2 9 (18.37%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (16.33%) Nagios
3 8 (16.33%) NetBackup
4 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 6 (12.24%) vCenter Server
6 4 (8.16%) Ansible
6 4 (8.16%) FortiGate
6 4 (8.16%) Terraform
7 2 (4.08%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.04%) OPNET
8 1 (2.04%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (51.02%) VMware
2 18 (36.73%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.33%) Hitachi
3 8 (16.33%) NetApp
4 6 (12.24%) Google
5 4 (8.16%) Cisco
5 4 (8.16%) F5
6 3 (6.12%) Dell
6 3 (6.12%) Fortinet
6 3 (6.12%) Veeam
7 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.04%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.04%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.04%) Oracle
8 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.04%) Remedy
8 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.04%) Veritas