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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 79 76
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +29
Contract jobs citing DNS 83 74 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.18% 2.62% 2.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.04% 16.12% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 52 63
10th Percentile £356 £213 £280
25th Percentile £465 £473 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £559 £491
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% +13.80% +22.75%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £550
90th Percentile £638 £724 £599
South East median daily rate £507 £546 £450
% change year-on-year -7.23% +21.39% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £21.28 £24.90 -
25th Percentile £25.44 £34.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £52.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.06% -20.00% +205.88%
75th Percentile £41.44 £70.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £45.83 £80.70 -
South East median hourly rate £33.25 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -24.00% +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 552 459 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.16% 16.25% 17.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 283 354
10th Percentile £205 £300 £207
25th Percentile £346 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £579 £559
90th Percentile £638 £650 £649
South East median daily rate £490 £481 £455
% change year-on-year +1.96% +5.62% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 15 21
10th Percentile £16.94 £18.90 £12.25
25th Percentile £23.06 £22.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -38.18%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.22 £26.50
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £55.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +4.27% +155.81% -42.28%

DNS
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 22 May 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 22 May 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 +13 68 £605 -6.92% 21
Buckinghamshire +21 11 £465 -9.27% 5
Oxfordshire +6 4 £465 +86.00% 5
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 26 (31.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (46.99%) Azure
2 19 (22.89%) Azure Monitor
2 19 (22.89%) Entra ID
2 19 (22.89%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (21.69%) Azure Storage
4 14 (16.87%) OCI
5 5 (6.02%) IaaS
6 3 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.61%) PaaS
7 2 (2.41%) AWS
7 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.41%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.41%) SaaS
8 1 (1.20%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 64 (77.11%) DHCP
2 40 (48.19%) Firewall
3 18 (21.69%) SAN
4 9 (10.84%) WAN
5 7 (8.43%) 3G
5 7 (8.43%) 4G
5 7 (8.43%) 5G
5 7 (8.43%) VoLTE
6 6 (7.23%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (7.23%) GGSN
6 6 (7.23%) LTE
6 6 (7.23%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (7.23%) RANAP
6 6 (7.23%) SGSN
6 6 (7.23%) Wireshark
7 5 (6.02%) SD-WAN
8 4 (4.82%) LAN
8 4 (4.82%) NAS
8 4 (4.82%) VPN
9 2 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (4.82%) MySQL
1 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Git
2 1 (1.20%) MSI
2 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (55.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.84%) Telecoms
3 6 (7.23%) Multimedia
3 6 (7.23%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (37.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (21.69%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (16.87%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (16.87%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (16.87%) Support Specialist
4 10 (12.05%) Storage Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Support Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Architect
6 8 (9.64%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Architect
7 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 6 (7.23%) Active Directory Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Senior
9 5 (6.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (24.10%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.41%) YAML
3 1 (1.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (36.14%) PKI
2 22 (26.51%) Data Centre
3 19 (22.89%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (9.64%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.82%) Fat Client
5 4 (4.82%) Thin Client
6 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.20%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.20%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 55 (66.27%) Windows
2 45 (54.22%) Windows Server
3 42 (50.60%) Linux
4 38 (45.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 34 (40.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (20.48%) Windows 10
7 16 (19.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (16.87%) Windows XP
9 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
10 3 (3.61%) Windows 7
11 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (49.40%) ITIL
2 34 (40.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (32.53%) Agile
4 24 (28.92%) Release Management
5 20 (24.10%) DevOps
5 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (22.89%) Analytics
6 19 (22.89%) CI/CD
6 19 (22.89%) Identity Management
6 19 (22.89%) Log Analytics
6 19 (22.89%) Proactive Monitoring
6 19 (22.89%) RBAC
6 19 (22.89%) Service Management
7 18 (21.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 18 (21.69%) Privileged Identity Management
8 16 (19.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (19.28%) Server Management
9 15 (18.07%) Project Management
10 14 (16.87%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.60%) PowerShell
2 19 (22.89%) Bicep
3 18 (21.69%) C#
3 18 (21.69%) VB
3 18 (21.69%) VBScript
4 1 (1.20%) Perl
4 1 (1.20%) Python
Qualifications
1 59 (71.08%) Security Cleared
2 48 (57.83%) Degree
3 47 (56.63%) SC Cleared
4 44 (53.01%) DV Cleared
5 18 (21.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 17 (20.48%) CCNA
6 17 (20.48%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (18.07%) CCNP
8 7 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.20%) BC Cleared
9 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.20%) CCDP
9 1 (1.20%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) ISO 9000
2 1 (1.20%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (67.47%) Active Directory
2 25 (30.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (25.30%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (24.10%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (21.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (16.87%) Hyper-V
7 6 (7.23%) XenApp
7 6 (7.23%) XenDesktop
8 1 (1.20%) Docker
8 1 (1.20%) NFS
8 1 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 40 (48.19%) SCCM
2 38 (45.78%) WSUS
3 32 (38.55%) SCOM
4 22 (26.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (25.30%) Kubernetes
6 20 (24.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (24.10%) vCenter Server
7 14 (16.87%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (16.87%) NetBackup
8 7 (8.43%) Ansible
9 4 (4.82%) Nessus
9 4 (4.82%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (4.82%) ZABBIX
10 2 (2.41%) Terraform
11 1 (1.20%) CFEngine
11 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
11 1 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (59.04%) Microsoft
2 27 (32.53%) VMware
3 22 (26.51%) Cisco
4 18 (21.69%) Oracle
4 18 (21.69%) Veeam
5 15 (18.07%) Juniper
6 14 (16.87%) 3PAR
6 14 (16.87%) Dell
6 14 (16.87%) EMC
6 14 (16.87%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (16.87%) HP
6 14 (16.87%) Palo Alto
6 14 (16.87%) Symantec
7 8 (9.64%) Citrix
8 6 (7.23%) Empirix
8 6 (7.23%) NetScout
9 4 (4.82%) FireEye
9 4 (4.82%) Red Hat
9 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
9 4 (4.82%) Tanium