DNS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 75 92
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing DNS 84 80 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.05% 2.69% 2.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.19% 15.94% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 54 52
10th Percentile £355 £213 £200
25th Percentile £465 £473 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £553 £485
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% +13.92% +7.78%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £553
90th Percentile £675 £721 £599
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.71% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £24.90 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £34.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -20.00% +55.69%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.50 £67.50
90th Percentile - £80.70 -
South East median hourly rate £55.25 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year +26.29% +103.49% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 637 502 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 23.11% 16.86% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 310 348
10th Percentile £205 £313 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £460
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +8.15% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £550
90th Percentile £650 £648 £638
South East median daily rate £486 £484 £450
% change year-on-year +0.53% +7.49% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 15 19
10th Percentile £17.79 £19.70 £11.92
25th Percentile £24.31 £25.75 £12.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -55.84%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £22.50
90th Percentile £87.47 £81.22 £34.70
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £45.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +27.44% +109.30% -34.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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
Berkshire +11 69 £605 -1.22% 13
Buckinghamshire +17 10 £465 -13.49% 12
Oxfordshire +5 5 £323 +29.00% 11
DNS
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 22 (26.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (42.86%) Azure
2 17 (20.24%) Entra ID
2 17 (20.24%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (19.05%) Azure Monitor
4 15 (17.86%) Azure Storage
5 12 (14.29%) OCI
6 5 (5.95%) IaaS
7 2 (2.38%) AWS
7 2 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.38%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.38%) PaaS
7 2 (2.38%) SaaS
8 1 (1.19%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 66 (78.57%) DHCP
2 34 (40.48%) Firewall
3 16 (19.05%) SAN
4 8 (9.52%) WAN
5 5 (5.95%) SD-WAN
6 4 (4.76%) 3G
6 4 (4.76%) 4G
6 4 (4.76%) 5G
6 4 (4.76%) NAS
6 4 (4.76%) VoLTE
7 3 (3.57%) Diameter Protocol
7 3 (3.57%) GGSN
7 3 (3.57%) LAN
7 3 (3.57%) LTE
7 3 (3.57%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (3.57%) RANAP
7 3 (3.57%) SGSN
7 3 (3.57%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.76%) MySQL
2 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.19%) Git
1 1 (1.19%) MSI
General
1 38 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.14%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (3.57%) Multimedia
3 3 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (36.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (16.67%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (16.67%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (16.67%) Support Specialist
4 13 (15.48%) Architect
5 10 (11.90%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure Architect
6 8 (9.52%) Storage Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 7 (8.33%) Senior
8 6 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Network Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support
11 3 (3.57%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.57%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.86%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (35.71%) PKI
2 23 (27.38%) Data Centre
3 16 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (13.10%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.76%) Fat Client
5 4 (4.76%) Thin Client
6 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.19%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 53 (63.10%) Windows
2 41 (48.81%) Windows Server
3 37 (44.05%) Linux
4 32 (38.10%) Windows Server 2019
5 28 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (17.86%) Windows 10
7 14 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (14.29%) Windows XP
9 4 (4.76%) Ubuntu
10 3 (3.57%) Windows 7
11 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (42.86%) ITIL
2 34 (40.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (27.38%) Agile
4 21 (25.00%) Release Management
5 18 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (20.24%) Proactive Monitoring
7 16 (19.05%) Analytics
7 16 (19.05%) Identity Management
7 16 (19.05%) Log Analytics
7 16 (19.05%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 16 (19.05%) Service Management
8 15 (17.86%) DevOps
8 15 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (17.86%) Privileged Identity Management
8 15 (17.86%) RBAC
9 14 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 14 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (16.67%) Server Management
10 13 (15.48%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 15 (17.86%) Bicep
2 15 (17.86%) C#
2 15 (17.86%) VB
2 15 (17.86%) VBScript
3 1 (1.19%) Perl
3 1 (1.19%) Python
Qualifications
1 58 (69.05%) Security Cleared
2 44 (52.38%) DV Cleared
3 41 (48.81%) SC Cleared
4 38 (45.24%) Degree
5 15 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (17.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (16.67%) CCNA
7 12 (14.29%) CCNP
8 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.19%) CCDP
9 1 (1.19%) CCIE
9 1 (1.19%) JNCIE
9 1 (1.19%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) ISO 9000
2 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 26 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (22.62%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (17.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (15.48%) Hyper-V
7 6 (7.14%) XenApp
7 6 (7.14%) XenDesktop
8 1 (1.19%) Docker
8 1 (1.19%) NFS
8 1 (1.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 35 (41.67%) SCCM
2 34 (40.48%) WSUS
3 27 (32.14%) SCOM
4 19 (22.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (22.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (22.62%) vCenter Server
5 18 (21.43%) Kubernetes
6 12 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
6 12 (14.29%) NetBackup
7 7 (8.33%) Ansible
8 4 (4.76%) Nessus
8 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (4.76%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.19%) CFEngine
9 1 (1.19%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.19%) Puppet
9 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (54.76%) Microsoft
2 28 (33.33%) VMware
3 21 (25.00%) Cisco
4 16 (19.05%) Oracle
4 16 (19.05%) Veeam
5 13 (15.48%) Juniper
6 12 (14.29%) 3PAR
6 12 (14.29%) Dell
6 12 (14.29%) EMC
6 12 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
6 12 (14.29%) HP
6 12 (14.29%) Palo Alto
6 12 (14.29%) Symantec
7 10 (11.90%) Citrix
8 4 (4.76%) FireEye
8 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.76%) Tanium
9 3 (3.57%) Empirix
9 3 (3.57%) Meraki