DNS Contracts in Berkshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 64 90
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 -23
Contract jobs citing DNS 68 51 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.57% 2.91% 1.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.21% 15.09% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 32 29
10th Percentile £351 £506 £360
25th Percentile £603 £534 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +44.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £565
90th Percentile £638 £762 £642
South East median daily rate £507 £546 £450
% change year-on-year -7.23% +21.39% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £24.90 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £34.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £52.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.46% -20.00% +205.88%
75th Percentile £19.50 £70.50 £67.50
90th Percentile - £80.70 -
South East median hourly rate £33.25 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -24.00% +103.49% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 447 338 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 23.44% 19.29% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 184 230
10th Percentile £205 £301 £268
25th Percentile £310 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £471
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +4.88% +24.20%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £560
90th Percentile - £688 £638
South East median daily rate £490 £481 £455
% change year-on-year +1.96% +5.62% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 7
10th Percentile £67.02 £19.60 -
25th Percentile £77.85 £24.50 -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -45.16%
75th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £47.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £81.30 £73.60
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £55.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +4.27% +155.81% -42.28%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Berkshire

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Berkshire

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Berkshire

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Reading +10 40 £605 -13.57% 10
Bracknell +6 12 £369 -
Wokingham +2 6 £310 -48.33%
Slough +11 1 £372 -27.51% 2
Newbury -1 1 - - 3
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 18 (26.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (8.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (54.41%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) Azure Monitor
2 19 (27.94%) Entra ID
2 19 (27.94%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (26.47%) Azure Storage
4 14 (20.59%) OCI
5 3 (4.41%) IaaS
6 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.47%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (77.94%) DHCP
2 37 (54.41%) Firewall
3 18 (26.47%) SAN
4 7 (10.29%) 3G
4 7 (10.29%) 4G
4 7 (10.29%) 5G
4 7 (10.29%) VoLTE
5 6 (8.82%) Diameter Protocol
5 6 (8.82%) GGSN
5 6 (8.82%) LTE
5 6 (8.82%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (8.82%) RANAP
5 6 (8.82%) SGSN
5 6 (8.82%) WAN
5 6 (8.82%) Wireshark
6 5 (7.35%) SD-WAN
7 4 (5.88%) NAS
8 2 (2.94%) VPN
9 1 (1.47%) IPsec
9 1 (1.47%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (5.88%) MySQL
1 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (1.47%) MSI
2 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (60.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 6 (8.82%) Multimedia
3 6 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (26.47%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (20.59%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (20.59%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (20.59%) Support Specialist
4 10 (14.71%) Storage Engineer
5 9 (13.24%) Support Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Architect
6 8 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Architect
7 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 6 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (7.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (7.35%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Server Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.41%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.94%) YAML
3 1 (1.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.35%) Data Centre
1 22 (32.35%) PKI
2 18 (26.47%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (11.76%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.88%) Fat Client
4 4 (5.88%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 50 (73.53%) Windows
2 42 (61.76%) Windows Server
3 41 (60.29%) Linux
4 38 (55.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 34 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (25.00%) Windows 10
7 16 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (20.59%) Windows XP
9 4 (5.88%) Ubuntu
10 3 (4.41%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (48.53%) ITIL
2 26 (38.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (29.41%) DevOps
3 20 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (29.41%) Release Management
4 19 (27.94%) Agile
4 19 (27.94%) Analytics
4 19 (27.94%) CI/CD
4 19 (27.94%) Identity Management
4 19 (27.94%) Log Analytics
4 19 (27.94%) Proactive Monitoring
4 19 (27.94%) RBAC
4 19 (27.94%) Service Management
5 18 (26.47%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 18 (26.47%) Privileged Identity Management
6 16 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (20.59%) Converged Infrastructure
7 14 (20.59%) Performance Monitoring
7 14 (20.59%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (20.59%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (55.88%) PowerShell
2 19 (27.94%) Bicep
3 18 (26.47%) C#
3 18 (26.47%) VB
3 18 (26.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (73.53%) Security Cleared
2 40 (58.82%) DV Cleared
2 40 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 39 (57.35%) Degree
4 18 (26.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 15 (22.06%) CCNA
5 15 (22.06%) CCNP
5 15 (22.06%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.47%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.47%) CCDP
7 1 (1.47%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) ISO 9000
2 1 (1.47%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (66.18%) Active Directory
2 22 (32.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (30.88%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (26.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (26.47%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (20.59%) Hyper-V
6 6 (8.82%) XenApp
6 6 (8.82%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (55.88%) SCCM
1 38 (55.88%) WSUS
2 32 (47.06%) SCOM
3 22 (32.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (29.41%) Kubernetes
4 20 (29.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (29.41%) vCenter Server
5 14 (20.59%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (20.59%) NetBackup
6 4 (5.88%) Ansible
6 4 (5.88%) Nessus
6 4 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (5.88%) ZABBIX
7 2 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (57.35%) Microsoft
2 24 (35.29%) VMware
3 20 (29.41%) Cisco
4 18 (26.47%) Oracle
4 18 (26.47%) Veeam
5 15 (22.06%) Juniper
6 14 (20.59%) 3PAR
6 14 (20.59%) Dell
6 14 (20.59%) EMC
6 14 (20.59%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (20.59%) HP
6 14 (20.59%) Palo Alto
6 14 (20.59%) Symantec
7 7 (10.29%) Citrix
8 6 (8.82%) Empirix
8 6 (8.82%) NetScout
9 4 (5.88%) FireEye
9 4 (5.88%) Red Hat
9 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
9 4 (5.88%) Tanium