DNS Contracts in Reading

Domain Name System (DNS)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 67 82
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -30
Contract jobs citing DNS 36 20 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.02% 1.92% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.75% 10.87% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 18 9
10th Percentile - £599 £373
25th Percentile £603 £625 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £681 £405
Median % change year-on-year -11.19% +68.21% +1.25%
75th Percentile £608 £746 £450
90th Percentile - £799 £538
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £625 £444
% change year-on-year -3.20% +40.85% -1.39%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 244 184 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 20.49% 17.68% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 97 115
10th Percentile £205 £337 £164
25th Percentile £335 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +25.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £602
90th Percentile - £718 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £490 £486 £467
% change year-on-year +0.77% +4.12% +20.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile £77.22 - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £66.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.52% +153.85% -45.26%
75th Percentile £87.53 £73.69 £26.50
90th Percentile - £78.30 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -50.72%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Reading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (86.11%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (47.22%) Entra ID
3 16 (44.44%) Azure Storage
4 15 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (36.11%) OCI
6 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.78%) IaaS
7 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (86.11%) Firewall
2 29 (80.56%) DHCP
3 13 (36.11%) SAN
4 5 (13.89%) 3G
4 5 (13.89%) 4G
4 5 (13.89%) 5G
4 5 (13.89%) Diameter Protocol
4 5 (13.89%) GGSN
4 5 (13.89%) LTE
4 5 (13.89%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (13.89%) RANAP
4 5 (13.89%) SGSN
4 5 (13.89%) VoLTE
4 5 (13.89%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.78%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (97.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Multimedia
2 5 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (41.67%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (38.89%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (38.89%) Support Specialist
3 13 (36.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) PowerShell Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Server Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Support
7 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (47.22%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.56%) YAML
3 1 (2.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (44.44%) PKI
1 16 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (36.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 29 (80.56%) Windows
2 28 (77.78%) Linux
2 28 (77.78%) Windows Server
2 28 (77.78%) Windows Server 2016
2 28 (77.78%) Windows Server 2019
3 13 (36.11%) Windows 10
3 13 (36.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 13 (36.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) ITIL
2 17 (47.22%) Agile
2 17 (47.22%) Analytics
2 17 (47.22%) DevOps
2 17 (47.22%) Identity Management
2 17 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (47.22%) Log Analytics
2 17 (47.22%) RBAC
2 17 (47.22%) Release Management
2 17 (47.22%) Service Management
3 16 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 16 (44.44%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 16 (44.44%) Privileged Identity Management
4 14 (38.89%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (36.11%) Break/Fix
5 13 (36.11%) Converged Infrastructure
5 13 (36.11%) Performance Tuning
5 13 (36.11%) Proactive Monitoring
5 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (36.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (86.11%) PowerShell
2 16 (44.44%) Bicep
2 16 (44.44%) C#
2 16 (44.44%) VB
2 16 (44.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (94.44%) Degree
2 29 (80.56%) DV Cleared
2 29 (80.56%) SC Cleared
2 29 (80.56%) Security Cleared
3 16 (44.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 13 (36.11%) CCNA
4 13 (36.11%) CCNP
4 13 (36.11%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 30 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 16 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 16 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (36.11%) Hyper-V
3 13 (36.11%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (36.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (80.56%) SCCM
1 29 (80.56%) SCOM
1 29 (80.56%) WSUS
2 17 (47.22%) Kubernetes
3 16 (44.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (36.11%) EMC NetWorker
4 13 (36.11%) NetBackup
4 13 (36.11%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (36.11%) 3PAR
2 13 (36.11%) Cisco
2 13 (36.11%) Dell
2 13 (36.11%) EMC
2 13 (36.11%) Extreme Networks
2 13 (36.11%) HP
2 13 (36.11%) Juniper
2 13 (36.11%) Oracle
2 13 (36.11%) Palo Alto
2 13 (36.11%) Symantec
2 13 (36.11%) Veeam
2 13 (36.11%) VMware
3 5 (13.89%) Empirix
3 5 (13.89%) NetScout
4 1 (2.78%) BMC
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) Remedy
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow