DNS Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Domain Name System (DNS)
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing DNS 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 3.85% 2.33% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.86% 6.67% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £388
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £525 £425 £260
% change year-on-year +23.53% +63.46% -50.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.37 - -
Median hourly rate £58.74 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +109.77% - -
75th Percentile £63.10 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median hourly rate £58.74 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +109.77% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7 15 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 8.97% 34.88% 26.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 21
10th Percentile £401 - £70
25th Percentile £403 £250 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £350 £513
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -31.71% +86.36%
75th Percentile £428 £508 £663
90th Percentile £434 £602 -
Surrey median daily rate £510 £475 £405
% change year-on-year +7.37% +17.28% -19.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £50.44 - -
25th Percentile £51.09 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £54.37 £28.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +94.17% +60.00% -
75th Percentile £59.83 - £18.75
90th Percentile £61.79 - -
Surrey median hourly rate £54.37 £28.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +94.17% +60.00% -61.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

DNS job vacancy trend in Guildford

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Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing DNS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing DNS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) BCP
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Packer
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Tanium
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