DNS Contracts in the City of London

Domain Name System (DNS)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 118 115
Rank change year-on-year +19 -3 -24
Contract jobs citing DNS 31 55 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.42% 1.54% 1.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.42% 15.49% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 37 70
10th Percentile £385 £335 £465
25th Percentile £403 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £672 £675 £575
90th Percentile £788 £700 £658
Central London median daily rate £450 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 215 355 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.86% 9.94% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 246 308
10th Percentile £207 £231 £313
25th Percentile £350 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £626
90th Percentile £744 £750 £713
Central London median daily rate £438 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -46.84% +167.80%
75th Percentile £14.25 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile - £30.86 £64.35
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -35.71% -48.15% +157.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DNS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.68%) Apache
2 3 (9.68%) IBM Domino
2 3 (9.68%) IBM Notes
2 3 (9.68%) IIS
3 2 (6.45%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (6.45%) JBoss
3 2 (6.45%) nginx
3 2 (6.45%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Solr
4 1 (3.23%) Confluence
4 1 (3.23%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.23%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Temenos T24
2 1 (3.23%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) Azure
2 11 (35.48%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (25.81%) Entra ID
4 6 (19.35%) IaaS
5 4 (12.90%) AWS
5 4 (12.90%) Mimecast
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub
7 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.45%) PaaS
7 2 (6.45%) SaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Akamai
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.23%) Azure API Management
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.23%) GCP
8 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
8 1 (3.23%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (58.06%) Firewall
2 9 (29.03%) DHCP
3 4 (12.90%) IPv4
3 4 (12.90%) MPLS
3 4 (12.90%) Network Security
3 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
4 3 (9.68%) SMTP
4 3 (9.68%) Unified Communications
4 3 (9.68%) VPN
5 2 (6.45%) Internet
5 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
5 2 (6.45%) SSL
5 2 (6.45%) Wireless
6 1 (3.23%) BGP
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (3.23%) EIGRP
6 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.23%) OSPF
6 1 (3.23%) SAN
6 1 (3.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
1 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (6.45%) MySQL
2 2 (6.45%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.45%) Redis
3 1 (3.23%) CouchDB
3 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.23%) Darcs
2 1 (3.23%) GitLab
2 1 (3.23%) Jaeger
2 1 (3.23%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (3.23%) Mercurial
2 1 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.23%) Travis CI
2 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (35.48%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (12.90%) French Language
4 3 (9.68%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Data Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Market Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Market Data Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Unified Communications Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (6.45%) YAML
2 1 (3.23%) .NET
2 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) LAMP
2 1 (3.23%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.23%) React
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) SAML
2 1 (3.23%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.23%) CBDC
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (3.23%) Digital Currency
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.23%) PKI
2 1 (3.23%) Replication
2 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (38.71%) Windows
1 12 (38.71%) Windows Server
2 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.45%) Unix
3 2 (6.45%) VMS
3 2 (6.45%) Windows 7
3 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.23%) OpenVMS
4 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (22.58%) Data Loss Prevention
1 7 (22.58%) Project Delivery
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (16.13%) IT Strategy
3 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (16.13%) Time Management
4 4 (12.90%) Application Packaging
4 4 (12.90%) Application Security
4 4 (12.90%) Application Virtualisation
4 4 (12.90%) Batch Scripting
4 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) Identity Management
4 4 (12.90%) Load Balancing
5 3 (9.68%) Agile
5 3 (9.68%) Capacity Management
5 3 (9.68%) Change Control
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.68%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.90%) VBScript
3 3 (9.68%) Python
4 2 (6.45%) Go
4 2 (6.45%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.23%) Bicep
5 1 (3.23%) C
5 1 (3.23%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) C++
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Ruby
5 1 (3.23%) Rust
5 1 (3.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) CCNA
3 1 (3.23%) CCNP
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) SANS
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (51.61%) Active Directory
2 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) Firmware
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (16.13%) SCCM
2 4 (12.90%) Terraform
3 3 (9.68%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.45%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Kibana
4 2 (6.45%) logstash
4 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.23%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.23%) Packer
5 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (3.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) VMware
3 6 (19.35%) IBM
4 5 (16.13%) Okta
5 4 (12.90%) Cisco
5 4 (12.90%) Citrix
5 4 (12.90%) Oracle
6 3 (9.68%) Lotus
6 3 (9.68%) Proofpoint
7 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto
7 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
7 2 (6.45%) Temenos
7 2 (6.45%) Veeam
8 1 (3.23%) Adobe
8 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.23%) Google
8 1 (3.23%) ProCurve
8 1 (3.23%) Qualys
8 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds