DNS Contracts in the South West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 68 96
Rank change year-on-year -23 +28 -2
Contract jobs citing DNS 59 124 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.85% 3.39% 2.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.05% 19.11% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 93 43
10th Percentile £256 £325 £213
25th Percentile £469 £400 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +29.41% +12.58%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £538
90th Percentile £731 £710 £575
England median daily rate £475 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -9.52% +7.69% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile - £78.40 £43.94
25th Percentile - £79.75 £44.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £85.00 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% +81.97% +0.45%
75th Percentile - £100.00 £47.60
90th Percentile £71.93 £107.50 £48.13
England median hourly rate £40.00 £49.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% +78.61% -7.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 534 649 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.75% 17.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 422 298
10th Percentile £275 £207 £223
25th Percentile £460 £400 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £540
90th Percentile £713 £718 £619
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 128 34
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.13
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +9.91%
75th Percentile £70.66 £62.13 £66.46
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.58 £69.05
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the South West

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in the South West

DNS
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Wiltshire -37 16 £575 +4.55% 3
Somerset +12 13 £295 -39.49% 4
Bristol +9 12 £515 -1.90% 8
Devon +3 12 £600 +71.43% 6
Dorset - 4 - -
Gloucestershire -22 2 £533 +33.13% 5
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 21 (35.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (15.25%) Confluence
3 5 (8.47%) SharePoint
4 4 (6.78%) Apache Solr
4 4 (6.78%) nginx
5 2 (3.39%) Skype for Business
6 1 (1.69%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.25%) Azure
2 6 (10.17%) Entra ID
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (6.78%) GCP
3 4 (6.78%) PaaS
4 3 (5.08%) AWS
4 3 (5.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (5.08%) Azure Pipelines
4 3 (5.08%) IaaS
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.69%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.69%) OCI
6 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (57.63%) DHCP
2 18 (30.51%) WAN
3 15 (25.42%) Firewall
4 14 (23.73%) Network Security
4 14 (23.73%) TCP/IP
5 13 (22.03%) LAN
6 10 (16.95%) VPN
7 9 (15.25%) SAN
7 9 (15.25%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (13.56%) MPLS
9 4 (6.78%) BGP
9 4 (6.78%) HTTPS
9 4 (6.78%) IPsec
9 4 (6.78%) OSPF
9 4 (6.78%) Skype
9 4 (6.78%) SNMP
9 4 (6.78%) VSAN
10 3 (5.08%) NGFW
10 3 (5.08%) SD-WAN
11 2 (3.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.78%) Couchbase
2 4 (6.78%) MySQL
2 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.69%) Git
General
1 30 (50.85%) Social Skills
2 22 (37.29%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Aerospace
4 8 (13.56%) Military
5 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.78%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (18.64%) Analyst
2 11 (18.64%) Network Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) IT Analyst
4 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (13.56%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 7 (11.86%) Wintel Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Integration Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Test Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Consultant
7 4 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Technical Consultant
9 2 (3.39%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) JSON
1 4 (6.78%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (6.78%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (6.78%) YAML
2 1 (1.69%) .NET
2 1 (1.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 20 (33.90%) PKI
2 13 (22.03%) Data Centre
3 9 (15.25%) Clustering
4 8 (13.56%) Client/Server
5 5 (8.47%) Management Information System
6 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (54.24%) Windows
2 17 (28.81%) Windows Server
3 10 (16.95%) Unix
4 9 (15.25%) Linux
4 9 (15.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (11.86%) Windows 10
6 4 (6.78%) CentOS
7 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.39%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (30.51%) ITIL
3 15 (25.42%) Agile
4 12 (20.34%) Migration
4 12 (20.34%) Network Management
4 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.95%) Critical Thinking
5 10 (16.95%) Load Balancing
5 10 (16.95%) Mentoring
6 9 (15.25%) Server Management
7 8 (13.56%) Application Packaging
7 8 (13.56%) Asset Management
7 8 (13.56%) Business Transformation
7 8 (13.56%) Capacity Management
7 8 (13.56%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (13.56%) Data Migration
7 8 (13.56%) Data Protection
7 8 (13.56%) Decision-Making
8 6 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.17%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) PowerShell
2 10 (16.95%) SQL
3 4 (6.78%) PHP
4 2 (3.39%) C#
4 2 (3.39%) Java
5 1 (1.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (54.24%) Security Cleared
2 25 (42.37%) SC Cleared
3 14 (23.73%) Degree
4 12 (20.34%) CCNA
4 12 (20.34%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (18.64%) CCNP
5 11 (18.64%) DV Cleared
6 8 (13.56%) MCSE
6 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (11.86%) MCSA
7 7 (11.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (3.39%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.69%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) NIST
2 4 (6.78%) GDPR
2 4 (6.78%) HIPAA
2 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.78%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (55.93%) Active Directory
2 23 (38.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (20.34%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (15.25%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (10.17%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (10.17%) VMware NSX
6 5 (8.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (5.08%) Docker
8 3 (5.08%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (23.73%) SCCM
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (13.56%) Nagios
3 8 (13.56%) NetBackup
4 7 (11.86%) vCenter Server
5 6 (10.17%) Ansible
5 6 (10.17%) Kubernetes
6 5 (8.47%) Terraform
7 4 (6.78%) FortiGate
8 3 (5.08%) SCOM
9 2 (3.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (3.39%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (3.39%) OPNET
9 2 (3.39%) WSUS
10 1 (1.69%) Kibana
10 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (47.46%) VMware
2 19 (32.20%) Microsoft
3 14 (23.73%) Cisco
4 13 (22.03%) Fortinet
5 8 (13.56%) Hitachi
5 8 (13.56%) NetApp
6 6 (10.17%) Veeam
7 5 (8.47%) Atlassian
7 5 (8.47%) Google
7 5 (8.47%) SolarWinds
8 4 (6.78%) F5
9 2 (3.39%) Dell
9 2 (3.39%) Remedy
10 1 (1.69%) Oracle
10 1 (1.69%) Splunk
10 1 (1.69%) Veritas