DNS Contracts in the North West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 43 74
Rank change year-on-year -64 +31 +22
Contract jobs citing DNS 32 144 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.15% 4.47% 2.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.60% 33.57% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 103 86
10th Percentile £208 £263 £158
25th Percentile £324 £373 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +3.29% +27.33%
75th Percentile £522 £638 £638
90th Percentile £628 £688 £688
England median daily rate £475 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -9.52% +7.69% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £52.13 -
England median hourly rate £36.25 £49.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -26.20% +78.61% -7.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 372 429 517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.36% 13.31% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 312 341
10th Percentile £199 £288 £181
25th Percentile £320 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 13
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.92 £12.07
25th Percentile £18.48 £19.17 £16.23
Median hourly rate £33.62 £31.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% +68.92% -61.00%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £42.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £52.13 £63.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Manchester -41 14 £475 -13.64% 18
Cheshire -19 5 £475 -15.93% 17
Merseyside +16 4 £295 -9.23% 6
Lancashire -6 2 £200 +7.38% 7
Cumbria -29 1 £528 +23.94% 1
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (9.38%) nginx
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Traefik
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) JBoss
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (3.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) AWS
3 8 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (21.88%) GCP
5 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (15.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (9.38%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Stack
8 2 (6.25%) GitHub
9 1 (3.13%) AWS KMS
9 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (3.13%) IaaS
9 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
9 1 (3.13%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 19 (59.38%) DHCP
2 8 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (15.63%) LAN
4 4 (12.50%) Firewall
4 4 (12.50%) SAN
5 3 (9.38%) VLAN
5 3 (9.38%) VPN
5 3 (9.38%) WAN
5 3 (9.38%) Wireless
6 2 (6.25%) Broadband
6 2 (6.25%) Network Security
6 2 (6.25%) VoIP
7 1 (3.13%) BGP
7 1 (3.13%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Analyst
1 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Network Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) IT Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) IT Operations Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Service Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Network Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) cloud-init
1 2 (6.25%) SAML
2 1 (3.13%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) PKI
2 4 (12.50%) Clustering
2 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (9.38%) NHS
4 2 (6.25%) CMDB
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (9.38%) Linux
4 3 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (6.25%) CentOS
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
2 6 (18.75%) Customer Service
2 6 (18.75%) DevOps
2 6 (18.75%) ITIL
3 5 (15.63%) Migration
4 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 3 (9.38%) Agile
5 3 (9.38%) Capacity Management
5 3 (9.38%) Change Management
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Security
5 3 (9.38%) Cost Reduction
5 3 (9.38%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (9.38%) Identity Management
5 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.38%) Task Automation
6 2 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.25%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (6.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) Go
3 4 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) Ruby
5 1 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (15.63%) CCNA
3 4 (12.50%) CCNP
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) JNCIA
4 2 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CCIE
5 1 (3.13%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) MCSA
5 1 (3.13%) MCSE
5 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.25%) NCSC
1 2 (6.25%) NIST
1 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (15.63%) Docker
4 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Ansible
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) ZABBIX
3 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.25%) CA Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.25%) Consul
4 2 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (6.25%) Graphite
4 2 (6.25%) HAProxy
4 2 (6.25%) Istio
4 2 (6.25%) linkerd
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (6.25%) Nagios
4 2 (6.25%) Packer
4 2 (6.25%) Podman
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.25%) Puppet
4 2 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) CA
4 3 (9.38%) Google
5 2 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco
5 2 (6.25%) Dell
5 2 (6.25%) PagerDuty
5 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.25%) Splunk
6 1 (3.13%) 3PAR
6 1 (3.13%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.13%) EMC
6 1 (3.13%) HP
6 1 (3.13%) IBM
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) Proofpoint
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.13%) Temenos