DNS Contracts in the Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 79 115
Rank change year-on-year +20 +36 -8
Contract jobs citing DNS 80 82 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.80% 2.53% 1.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.88% 16.43% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 67 78
10th Percentile £200 £184 £164
25th Percentile £309 £313 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £447
90th Percentile £775 £700 £500
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.22 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.56 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% +92.50% +66.67%
75th Percentile £51.91 £40.25 £21.88
90th Percentile - - £23.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year -23.27% +142.47% -7.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 474 499 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.57% 15.41% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 321 416
10th Percentile £200 £250 £163
25th Percentile £306 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £526
90th Percentile £675 £700 £625
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +12.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 28
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.79
25th Percentile £13.00 £16.63 £15.42
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +17.91% +17.07%
75th Percentile £24.95 £28.13 £21.07
90th Percentile £28.75 £36.15 £23.33
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
% change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.96%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the Midlands

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
West Midlands +6 64 £525 +23.53% 30
East Midlands -2 15 £350 -34.88% 19
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 15 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (13.75%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.75%) CMS
3 3 (3.75%) Drupal
4 2 (2.50%) IIS
4 2 (2.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (30.00%) Azure
3 8 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (8.75%) Entra ID
4 7 (8.75%) OneDrive
5 6 (7.50%) AWS
6 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.25%) CloudFront
6 5 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.75%) GCP
8 2 (2.50%) IaaS
8 2 (2.50%) PaaS
9 1 (1.25%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 46 (57.50%) DHCP
2 22 (27.50%) TCP/IP
2 22 (27.50%) WAN
3 20 (25.00%) Firewall
3 20 (25.00%) VPN
4 16 (20.00%) LAN
5 10 (12.50%) SD-WAN
6 9 (11.25%) Wireless
7 8 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
7 8 (10.00%) NetScaler
7 8 (10.00%) SAN
8 7 (8.75%) MPLS
8 7 (8.75%) Network Security
8 7 (8.75%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (7.50%) VoIP
10 5 (6.25%) Ethereal
10 5 (6.25%) Ethernet
10 5 (6.25%) PBX
10 5 (6.25%) Wireshark
10 5 (6.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) Artifactory
2 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.75%) Selenium
2 3 (3.75%) Subversion
3 1 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 22 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.50%) Finance
5 5 (6.25%) Retail
6 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Local Government
7 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) Network Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) 2nd Line Support
4 9 (11.25%) Architect
5 8 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Administrator
6 7 (8.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 6 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Citrix Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (6.25%) Network Support
8 5 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Security Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) OAuth
1 5 (6.25%) OAuth2
1 5 (6.25%) SAML
1 5 (6.25%) Web Services
2 2 (2.50%) JSON
2 2 (2.50%) LAMP
2 2 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.50%) PKI
4 4 (5.00%) iPad
5 3 (3.75%) Fat Client
5 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.75%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.50%) Replication
7 1 (1.25%) Clustering
7 1 (1.25%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (68.75%) Windows
2 38 (47.50%) Windows Server
3 20 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 16 (20.00%) Linux
5 9 (11.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (7.50%) Ubuntu
7 6 (7.50%) Unix
8 4 (5.00%) CentOS
9 3 (3.75%) Windows 7
9 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (16.25%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (15.00%) Patch Management
4 10 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (12.50%) ITIL
5 9 (11.25%) Change Management
5 9 (11.25%) Security Monitoring
5 9 (11.25%) Task Automation
6 8 (10.00%) Application Packaging
6 8 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
7 7 (8.75%) Cloud Security
7 7 (8.75%) Computer Science
7 7 (8.75%) Customer Service
8 6 (7.50%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (7.50%) Incident Response
8 6 (7.50%) Load Balancing
8 6 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (7.50%) Project Delivery
8 6 (7.50%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.50%) PowerShell
2 8 (10.00%) C#
2 8 (10.00%) Java
3 4 (5.00%) Bash
3 4 (5.00%) SQL
4 1 (1.25%) Bicep
4 1 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (17.50%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) CCNA
4 7 (8.75%) Degree
4 7 (8.75%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.25%) CCIE
5 5 (6.25%) CCIE Data Center
5 5 (6.25%) CCNP
6 2 (2.50%) MCSE
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) NIST
2 4 (5.00%) ISO 9000
3 3 (3.75%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 44 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 18 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (16.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (13.75%) VMware NSX
6 8 (10.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 8 (10.00%) XenApp
6 8 (10.00%) XenDesktop
7 7 (8.75%) vSphere
8 5 (6.25%) Docker
8 5 (6.25%) VMware Server
9 3 (3.75%) BitLocker
9 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (2.50%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 23 (28.75%) SCCM
2 14 (17.50%) vCenter Server
3 5 (6.25%) OpenView
4 4 (5.00%) Ansible
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.75%) SCOM
5 3 (3.75%) Terraform
6 2 (2.50%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.25%) VxRail
7 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (41.25%) Microsoft
2 27 (33.75%) VMware
3 18 (22.50%) Cisco
4 10 (12.50%) Citrix
5 9 (11.25%) NetApp
5 9 (11.25%) Palo Alto
6 8 (10.00%) Veeam
7 6 (7.50%) CheckPoint
8 5 (6.25%) Infoblox
8 5 (6.25%) Symantec
8 5 (6.25%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.75%) Aruba
9 3 (3.75%) Fujitsu
9 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
9 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.50%) Mitel
10 2 (2.50%) ProCurve
10 2 (2.50%) Synology