DNS Contracts in the South East

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 94 99
Rank change year-on-year +33 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing DNS 170 142 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.08% 2.44% 2.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.56% 14.39% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 93 129
10th Percentile £295 £213 £197
25th Percentile £413 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.00% -2.22%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £540
90th Percentile £638 £753 £600
England median daily rate £480 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -8.67% +7.14% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile £24.05 £23.55 -
25th Percentile £32.38 £31.13 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £43.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +103.49% +7.50%
75th Percentile £58.13 £65.63 £22.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £78.75 £31.30
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -23.27% +89.56% -7.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,254 987 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.70% 16.93% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 595 776
10th Percentile £205 £235 £189
25th Percentile £363 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £659
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 74 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.33 £15.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +146.51% -34.85%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.50 £46.40
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +16 87 £605 +8.52% 31
Berkshire +16 72 £605 -3.20% 13
Hampshire 0 39 £525 -6.67% 19
Surrey +15 16 £198 -50.63% 8
West Sussex - 13 £450 - 8
East Sussex +9 11 £500 -37.11% 1
Buckinghamshire +17 10 £465 -9.27% 9
Oxfordshire +1 5 £323 +29.00% 9
Kent +4 3 £205 -47.94% 11
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 36 (21.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.29%) Confluence
3 5 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.18%) Apache
4 2 (1.18%) nginx
5 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.59%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (27.65%) Azure
2 31 (18.24%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (12.35%) Entra ID
4 17 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (9.41%) Azure Storage
6 15 (8.82%) AWS
7 13 (7.65%) OCI
8 8 (4.71%) IaaS
9 5 (2.94%) Datadog
10 4 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.35%) GitHub
11 3 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.76%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.76%) PaaS
11 3 (1.76%) SaaS
12 2 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.18%) CloudFront
12 2 (1.18%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.18%) Route 53
12 2 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 124 (72.94%) DHCP
2 67 (39.41%) Firewall
3 29 (17.06%) SAN
4 18 (10.59%) WAN
5 17 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 17 (10.00%) VPN
6 16 (9.41%) VLAN
7 13 (7.65%) LAN
7 13 (7.65%) Wireless
8 7 (4.12%) 4G
8 7 (4.12%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (3.53%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (3.53%) iSCSI
9 6 (3.53%) Network Security
10 5 (2.94%) 3G
10 5 (2.94%) 5G
10 5 (2.94%) MPLS
10 5 (2.94%) SD-WAN
10 5 (2.94%) VoLTE
11 4 (2.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.94%) MySQL
2 5 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.59%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.29%) JIRA
2 6 (3.53%) Git
3 2 (1.18%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.18%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.59%) MSI
4 1 (0.59%) Subversion
4 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (39.41%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.29%) Military
4 7 (4.12%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.12%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.35%) Multimedia
5 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.76%) Front Office
7 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.59%) Finance
7 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (28.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (11.76%) Integration Engineer
3 19 (11.18%) Support Specialist
4 17 (10.00%) Architect
5 15 (8.82%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (8.82%) Azure Specialist
5 15 (8.82%) Senior
6 14 (8.24%) Active Directory Specialist
7 12 (7.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.47%) Network Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (5.29%) Test and Integration Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) Test Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) Infrastructure Architect
11 8 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) Support Engineer
12 7 (4.12%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.12%) Linux Engineer
12 7 (4.12%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.76%) .NET
2 3 (1.76%) XMPP
3 2 (1.18%) Django
3 2 (1.18%) HornetQ
3 2 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.18%) VCL
3 2 (1.18%) YAML
4 1 (0.59%) JSON
4 1 (0.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (24.71%) PKI
2 28 (16.47%) Data Centre
3 17 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (5.88%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.35%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.35%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.76%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.76%) Clustering
7 3 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.59%) CMDB
8 1 (0.59%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.59%) IoT
8 1 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Replication
8 1 (0.59%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 108 (63.53%) Windows
2 84 (49.41%) Windows Server
3 62 (36.47%) Linux
4 44 (25.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 42 (24.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 36 (21.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 30 (17.65%) Windows 10
8 13 (7.65%) Windows XP
9 10 (5.88%) Unix
9 10 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (4.12%) Ubuntu
10 7 (4.12%) Windows 7
11 6 (3.53%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (2.94%) Debian
12 5 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.59%) CentOS
13 1 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.59%) Solaris
13 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (32.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (27.06%) ITIL
3 39 (22.94%) Agile
4 25 (14.71%) RBAC
4 25 (14.71%) Release Management
5 23 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (11.18%) Analytics
8 19 (11.18%) DevOps
8 19 (11.18%) Proactive Monitoring
8 19 (11.18%) Server Management
9 18 (10.59%) Service Management
10 17 (10.00%) CI/CD
10 17 (10.00%) Identity Management
10 17 (10.00%) Log Analytics
10 17 (10.00%) Migration
10 17 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 16 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (9.41%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (34.71%) PowerShell
2 22 (12.94%) VBScript
3 16 (9.41%) Bicep
3 16 (9.41%) C#
3 16 (9.41%) VB
4 11 (6.47%) SQL
5 9 (5.29%) Python
6 7 (4.12%) Bash
7 6 (3.53%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.76%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.18%) C++
9 2 (1.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 88 (51.76%) Security Cleared
2 58 (34.12%) SC Cleared
3 53 (31.18%) DV Cleared
4 50 (29.41%) Degree
5 22 (12.94%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (11.76%) CCNA
7 18 (10.59%) CCNP
8 16 (9.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 15 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (5.88%) MCSA
10 10 (5.88%) MCSE
11 9 (5.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 8 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (2.35%) DBS Check
14 3 (1.76%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
16 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
16 1 (0.59%) CCDP
16 1 (0.59%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.12%) GDPR
2 5 (2.94%) ISO 9000
2 5 (2.94%) SLA
3 3 (1.76%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
5 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 112 (65.88%) Active Directory
2 71 (41.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (14.71%) Hyper-V
3 25 (14.71%) VMware ESXi
4 23 (13.53%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (10.59%) XenApp
6 16 (9.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (7.65%) vSphere
8 6 (3.53%) XenDesktop
9 3 (1.76%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.18%) Varnish
10 2 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.59%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.59%) Docker
11 1 (0.59%) NFS
11 1 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.59%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 53 (31.18%) WSUS
2 52 (30.59%) SCCM
3 29 (17.06%) SCOM
4 24 (14.12%) vCenter Server
5 21 (12.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (12.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (11.76%) Kubernetes
7 15 (8.82%) Ansible
8 13 (7.65%) EMC NetWorker
8 13 (7.65%) NetBackup
9 7 (4.12%) Terraform
10 5 (2.94%) Nessus
10 5 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (2.35%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.76%) AppManager
13 2 (1.18%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (1.18%) HAProxy
13 2 (1.18%) SolarWinds Orion
13 2 (1.18%) vRealize
13 2 (1.18%) VxRail
Vendors
1 87 (51.18%) Microsoft
2 77 (45.29%) VMware
3 35 (20.59%) Cisco
4 22 (12.94%) Citrix
5 21 (12.35%) Symantec
6 20 (11.76%) Palo Alto
7 19 (11.18%) Juniper
8 18 (10.59%) Dell
8 18 (10.59%) Oracle
8 18 (10.59%) Veeam
9 15 (8.82%) EMC
9 15 (8.82%) Ivanti
10 13 (7.65%) 3PAR
10 13 (7.65%) Extreme Networks
10 13 (7.65%) HP
11 12 (7.06%) Red Hat
11 12 (7.06%) SolarWinds
12 7 (4.12%) F5
13 5 (2.94%) Meraki
14 4 (2.35%) FireEye