DNS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 122 103 112
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing DNS 387 532 712
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.81% 2.34% 2.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.77% 15.06% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 370 510
10th Percentile £200 £200 £188
25th Percentile £353 £350 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +14.17% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £540
90th Percentile £666 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 19
10th Percentile - £18.50 £19.29
25th Percentile - £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 £48.75 £83.75 £23.38
90th Percentile £65.45 £87.50 £52.28
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East +23 155 £513 -2.38% 87
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% 27
Scotland +34 33 £240 -49.90% 21
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% 38
North East +5 3 £600 +108.70% 5
Northern Ireland -2 3 - - 2
Wales +1 1 £425 -22.73% 6
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 89 (23.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (7.49%) Confluence
3 21 (5.43%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.07%) CMS
5 6 (1.55%) nginx
6 4 (1.03%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.03%) IIS
7 3 (0.78%) Drupal
8 2 (0.52%) Apache
8 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.52%) WordPress
9 1 (0.26%) JBoss
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 42 (10.85%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 120 (31.01%) Azure
2 79 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (14.21%) Entra ID
4 35 (9.04%) AWS
5 30 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
6 21 (5.43%) Azure Storage
6 21 (5.43%) GCP
7 17 (4.39%) IaaS
8 15 (3.88%) OCI
9 14 (3.62%) GitHub
10 11 (2.84%) OneDrive
11 10 (2.58%) PaaS
12 9 (2.33%) Kong
13 8 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.81%) Akamai
15 6 (1.55%) Apigee
15 6 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.55%) Cloudflare
15 6 (1.55%) SaaS
15 6 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 249 (64.34%) DHCP
2 122 (31.52%) Firewall
3 79 (20.41%) VPN
4 78 (20.16%) TCP/IP
5 56 (14.47%) WAN
6 50 (12.92%) SAN
7 43 (11.11%) LAN
8 24 (6.20%) Wireless
9 23 (5.94%) VLAN
10 22 (5.68%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (5.17%) HTTP
11 20 (5.17%) Network Security
12 18 (4.65%) MPLS
13 17 (4.39%) Wireshark
14 16 (4.13%) SSL
15 15 (3.88%) SD-WAN
16 12 (3.10%) VoIP
17 11 (2.84%) SMTP
18 10 (2.58%) Cisco ISE
18 10 (2.58%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.58%) MySQL
4 6 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.03%) Couchbase
6 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.52%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.26%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (8.01%) JIRA
2 20 (5.17%) Git
3 14 (3.62%) GitLab
4 13 (3.36%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (2.33%) CircleCI
5 9 (2.33%) Travis CI
6 5 (1.29%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.03%) Subversion
8 3 (0.78%) Selenium
9 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.52%) MSI
10 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 149 (38.50%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (6.20%) Public Sector
4 21 (5.43%) Telecoms
5 20 (5.17%) Finance
6 19 (4.91%) Military
7 11 (2.84%) Retail
8 10 (2.58%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.55%) Multimedia
11 5 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.03%) Banking
12 4 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.03%) Legal
13 3 (0.78%) Front Office
13 3 (0.78%) Local Government
14 1 (0.26%) Advertising
14 1 (0.26%) Electronics
14 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 83 (21.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (10.08%) Support Engineer
3 38 (9.82%) Network Engineer
4 26 (6.72%) Analyst
4 26 (6.72%) Architect
4 26 (6.72%) Integration Engineer
5 25 (6.46%) Senior
6 21 (5.43%) Active Directory Support
7 20 (5.17%) Test Engineer
8 19 (4.91%) Desktop Engineer
8 19 (4.91%) Support Specialist
9 18 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (4.39%) 2nd Line Support
11 16 (4.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 16 (4.13%) Test and Integration Engineer
12 15 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (3.62%) Active Directory Specialist
13 14 (3.62%) Azure Specialist
13 14 (3.62%) IT Analyst
14 13 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.94%) ARM Templates
2 17 (4.39%) JSON
2 17 (4.39%) YAML
3 12 (3.10%) XML
4 11 (2.84%) LDAP
5 9 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (2.07%) SAML
7 6 (1.55%) OAuth
8 5 (1.29%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.29%) Web Services
9 4 (1.03%) .NET
9 4 (1.03%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.78%) CSS
10 3 (0.78%) XMPP
11 2 (0.52%) ADSI
11 2 (0.52%) LAMP
12 1 (0.26%) Middleware
12 1 (0.26%) OLE
12 1 (0.26%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 75 (19.38%) PKI
2 51 (13.18%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.65%) Clustering
5 15 (3.88%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 10 (2.58%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.33%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.33%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.07%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.81%) Fat Client
10 7 (1.81%) Thin Client
11 6 (1.55%) iPad
12 5 (1.29%) Cyberattack
12 5 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.03%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.03%) Replication
14 3 (0.78%) CMDB
14 3 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 247 (63.82%) Windows
2 155 (40.05%) Windows Server
3 100 (25.84%) Linux
4 82 (21.19%) Windows 10
5 67 (17.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 62 (16.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 57 (14.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (6.98%) Unix
9 26 (6.72%) Windows 7
10 16 (4.13%) Ubuntu
11 15 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 14 (3.62%) Windows XP
13 12 (3.10%) Windows Server 2008
14 10 (2.58%) CentOS
14 10 (2.58%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (2.07%) VMS
16 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.52%) Debian
18 1 (0.26%) Android
18 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (23.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 86 (22.22%) ITIL
3 78 (20.16%) Agile
4 56 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (12.92%) CI/CD
7 47 (12.14%) DevOps
8 37 (9.56%) Cybersecurity
9 36 (9.30%) Migration
10 32 (8.27%) Server Management
11 31 (8.01%) Break/Fix
11 31 (8.01%) Project Management
11 31 (8.01%) Release Management
12 30 (7.75%) RBAC
13 29 (7.49%) Analytics
14 28 (7.24%) Patch Management
15 27 (6.98%) Service Management
16 26 (6.72%) Customer Service
16 26 (6.72%) Identity Management
16 26 (6.72%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 131 (33.85%) PowerShell
2 31 (8.01%) C#
3 30 (7.75%) SQL
4 27 (6.98%) VBScript
5 25 (6.46%) Python
6 23 (5.94%) Bicep
7 22 (5.68%) VB
8 18 (4.65%) Bash
9 13 (3.36%) Java
10 4 (1.03%) ActionScript
10 4 (1.03%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.03%) PHP
10 4 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.78%) Go
11 3 (0.78%) Perl
11 3 (0.78%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.52%) C++
13 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 160 (41.34%) Security Cleared
2 108 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 80 (20.67%) Degree
4 76 (19.64%) DV Cleared
5 52 (13.44%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (10.59%) CCNA
7 33 (8.53%) CCNP
8 31 (8.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (6.20%) MCSE
10 23 (5.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 21 (5.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (5.17%) MCSA
13 17 (4.39%) A+ Certification
14 12 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
15 10 (2.58%) CCIE
16 5 (1.29%) AWS Certification
16 5 (1.29%) CCIE Data Center
16 5 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
17 4 (1.03%) Azure Certification
17 4 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.91%) QA
2 16 (4.13%) NIST
3 13 (3.36%) GDPR
4 9 (2.33%) ISO 9000
5 6 (1.55%) SLA
6 4 (1.03%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.78%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 243 (62.79%) Active Directory
2 123 (31.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (14.21%) VMware ESXi
4 41 (10.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 39 (10.08%) Hyper-V
6 33 (8.53%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (6.72%) vSphere
7 26 (6.72%) XenApp
8 22 (5.68%) Docker
9 18 (4.65%) VMware NSX
10 13 (3.36%) XenDesktop
11 11 (2.84%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (2.84%) VMware Workstation
12 8 (2.07%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (2.07%) Terminal Services
13 7 (1.81%) BitLocker
14 5 (1.29%) VMware Server
15 4 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.78%) NFS
17 2 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 120 (31.01%) SCCM
2 58 (14.99%) WSUS
3 49 (12.66%) vCenter Server
4 46 (11.89%) Kubernetes
5 40 (10.34%) SCOM
6 34 (8.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 33 (8.53%) Ansible
8 30 (7.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 27 (6.98%) Terraform
10 22 (5.68%) NetBackup
11 14 (3.62%) EMC NetWorker
12 11 (2.84%) Puppet
13 10 (2.58%) Docker Swarm
13 10 (2.58%) Microsoft Clustering
13 10 (2.58%) Nagios
13 10 (2.58%) Prometheus
14 9 (2.33%) Grafana
14 9 (2.33%) Kibana
14 9 (2.33%) logstash
14 9 (2.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 187 (48.32%) Microsoft
2 148 (38.24%) VMware
3 82 (21.19%) Cisco
4 37 (9.56%) Citrix
5 33 (8.53%) Palo Alto
5 33 (8.53%) Symantec
5 33 (8.53%) Veeam
6 24 (6.20%) Dell
7 22 (5.68%) Oracle
8 19 (4.91%) F5
8 19 (4.91%) Juniper
8 19 (4.91%) Splunk
9 18 (4.65%) HP
9 18 (4.65%) NetApp
9 18 (4.65%) SolarWinds
10 17 (4.39%) EMC
10 17 (4.39%) Ivanti
11 14 (3.62%) 3PAR
11 14 (3.62%) Extreme Networks
12 10 (2.58%) Infoblox