DNS Contracts in Reading

Domain Name System (DNS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 65 72
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -18
Contract jobs citing DNS 43 20 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.56% 1.91% 2.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.38% 10.15% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 17 20
10th Percentile - £633 £374
25th Percentile £603 £663 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +55.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £608 £754 £491
90th Percentile - £799 £536
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £650 £460
% change year-on-year -6.92% +41.30% +15.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 234 197 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 19.35% 18.82% 17.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 100 118
10th Percentile £205 £300 £273
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £555 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +20.00% +22.52%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £575
90th Percentile - £728 £642
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £488 £464
% change year-on-year +5.02% +5.10% +22.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 1
10th Percentile £77.22 - -
25th Percentile - £66.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% +188.46% -44.39%
75th Percentile £87.53 £76.99 £26.50
90th Percentile - £79.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £73.92 £17.00
% change year-on-year +13.32% +334.81% -49.25%

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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 15 June 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 21 (48.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (86.05%) Azure
2 22 (51.16%) Azure Monitor
2 22 (51.16%) Entra ID
3 21 (48.84%) Azure Storage
3 21 (48.84%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (32.56%) OCI
5 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.33%) IaaS
6 1 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (86.05%) Firewall
2 35 (81.40%) DHCP
3 14 (32.56%) SAN
4 6 (13.95%) 3G
4 6 (13.95%) 4G
4 6 (13.95%) 5G
4 6 (13.95%) Diameter Protocol
4 6 (13.95%) GGSN
4 6 (13.95%) LTE
4 6 (13.95%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (13.95%) RANAP
4 6 (13.95%) SGSN
4 6 (13.95%) VoLTE
4 6 (13.95%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (97.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Multimedia
2 6 (13.95%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (32.56%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (32.56%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (32.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (32.56%) Support Specialist
3 10 (23.26%) Storage Engineer
4 9 (20.93%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (18.60%) Support Engineer
6 7 (16.28%) Active Directory Engineer
6 7 (16.28%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Server Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Support
9 1 (2.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (53.49%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.65%) YAML
3 1 (2.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (48.84%) PKI
1 21 (48.84%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (32.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 35 (81.40%) Linux
1 35 (81.40%) Windows
1 35 (81.40%) Windows Server
1 35 (81.40%) Windows Server 2016
1 35 (81.40%) Windows Server 2019
2 14 (32.56%) Windows 10
2 14 (32.56%) Windows Server 2012
2 14 (32.56%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (81.40%) ITIL
2 23 (53.49%) DevOps
2 23 (53.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (51.16%) Agile
3 22 (51.16%) Analytics
3 22 (51.16%) CI/CD
3 22 (51.16%) Identity Management
3 22 (51.16%) Log Analytics
3 22 (51.16%) RBAC
3 22 (51.16%) Release Management
3 22 (51.16%) Service Management
4 21 (48.84%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 21 (48.84%) Privileged Identity Management
5 15 (34.88%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (32.56%) Break/Fix
6 14 (32.56%) Performance Monitoring
6 14 (32.56%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (32.56%) Proactive Monitoring
6 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (32.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (86.05%) PowerShell
2 22 (51.16%) Bicep
3 21 (48.84%) C#
3 21 (48.84%) VB
3 21 (48.84%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (97.67%) Degree
2 35 (81.40%) DV Cleared
2 35 (81.40%) SC Cleared
2 35 (81.40%) Security Cleared
3 21 (48.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 14 (32.56%) CCNA
4 14 (32.56%) CCNP
4 14 (32.56%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (16.28%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 36 (83.72%) Active Directory
2 21 (48.84%) Virtual Desktop
2 21 (48.84%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (32.56%) Hyper-V
3 14 (32.56%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (32.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (81.40%) SCCM
1 35 (81.40%) SCOM
1 35 (81.40%) WSUS
2 22 (51.16%) Kubernetes
3 21 (48.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 21 (48.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (32.56%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (32.56%) NetBackup
4 14 (32.56%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (86.05%) Microsoft
2 14 (32.56%) 3PAR
2 14 (32.56%) Cisco
2 14 (32.56%) Dell
2 14 (32.56%) EMC
2 14 (32.56%) Extreme Networks
2 14 (32.56%) HP
2 14 (32.56%) Juniper
2 14 (32.56%) Oracle
2 14 (32.56%) Palo Alto
2 14 (32.56%) Symantec
2 14 (32.56%) Veeam
2 14 (32.56%) VMware
3 6 (13.95%) Empirix
3 6 (13.95%) NetScout
4 1 (2.33%) BMC
4 1 (2.33%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) Remedy
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow