DNS Contracts in Birmingham

Domain Name System (DNS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 43 67
Rank change year-on-year -12 +24 -12
Contract jobs citing DNS 13 32 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.70% 3.54% 2.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.67% 21.77% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 17
10th Percentile £188 £313 £178
25th Percentile £200 £356 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +1.19% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £450
90th Percentile £1,000 - £500
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £425 £310
% change year-on-year +23.53% +37.10% -14.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 150 147 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.58% 16.26% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 68 103
10th Percentile £205 £313 £163
25th Percentile £290 £394 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £700 £500
90th Percentile £600 £731 £593
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £13.25 - £12.57
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £19.95 £15.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.00% -25.00% +27.11%
75th Percentile £28.75 £18.75 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £20.21 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
% change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) IIS
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (15.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 5 (38.46%) DHCP
2 5 (38.46%) WAN
3 4 (30.77%) Firewall
3 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
4 3 (23.08%) Wireless
5 2 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (15.38%) iSCSI
5 2 (15.38%) LAN
5 2 (15.38%) NAS
5 2 (15.38%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (15.38%) SAN
5 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
6 1 (7.69%) BGP
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (7.69%) Ethereal
6 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
6 1 (7.69%) Junos
6 1 (7.69%) MPLS
6 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 4 (30.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Network Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) WAN Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Service Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Service Desk Support
5 2 (15.38%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) LAMP
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) iPad
1 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (30.77%) Linux
4 4 (30.77%) Windows 10
4 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
5 2 (15.38%) VMS
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
2 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) Migration
3 1 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (7.69%) Project Management
3 1 (7.69%) RBAC
3 1 (7.69%) Server Patching
3 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Terminal Services
3 2 (15.38%) vSphere
4 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) SCCM
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) OpenView
3 1 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Aruba
4 2 (15.38%) Fujitsu
4 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 2 (15.38%) ProCurve
4 2 (15.38%) Synology
4 2 (15.38%) Veeam
4 2 (15.38%) Zerto
5 1 (7.69%) Juniper