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 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 24.14% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 63.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £200 - -
25th Percentile £300 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £525 £413 £198
% change year-on-year +27.27% +108.86% -21.00%

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 11 7 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 37.93% 29.17% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 14
10th Percentile £200 £252 £215
25th Percentile £273 £255 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £371 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.74% -27.56% +150.31%
75th Percentile - £559 £519
90th Percentile £404 £674 -
Surrey median daily rate £400 £500 £393
% change year-on-year -20.00% +27.39% +35.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +85.71% -
75th Percentile - £33.75 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median hourly rate £17.60 £32.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year -45.85% -57.53% +70.07%

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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

DNS
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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Daily Rate Histogram in Guildford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Guildford over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Guildford

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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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 2 (28.57%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
1 5 (71.43%) Public Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Driving Licence
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 2 (28.57%) Security Hardening
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Hyper-V
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft